French non-profit organizations after one year of Covid-19: Insights into organizational resilience

Plaisance, Guillaume

doi:10.1177/03063070221140725

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“…Thus, our study provides a quantitative perspective in applying the qualitative nonprofit resilience framework to better understand the effects of and response to COVID-19 on nonprofits. Plaisance (2022a) uses French nonprofit survey data from one year after the beginning of COVID-19 to examine medium-term resilience focusing on recovery and restoration (which theoretically maps to mid-level resilience and "coping") of three nonprofit resilience framework themes: financial, human resources, and program and services. The paper finds that French nonprofits have not yet recovered or restored pre-COVID-19 activity.…”

Section: Background and Motivation 21 External Shocks And The Nonprof...mentioning

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Deep pockets or empty coffers? Functional expenses, contribution revenue and the ability of nonprofits to pivot during COVID-19

Burke-Kolehmainen,

Intindola

2023

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PurposeWithin the context of the nonprofit resiliency framework, the authors use nonprofit functional expenses and contribution revenue to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the ability of nonprofits in different subsectors to carry out their mission, as well as their ability to “pivot” fundraising strategies to integrate social media and digital engagement.Design/methodology/approach The authors use IRS form 990 return data for organizations with a year-end return that includes at least six months of COVID-19 impact (“Wave 1 Effects” period) and also have a prior-year return (“Business as Usual” period). The authors use Wilcoxon signed rank tests to examine whether there are differences in our variables of interest between the two periods.FindingsWhile the majority of nonprofits in most subsectors experienced a significant decrease in program spending, fundraising spending and fundraising efficiency ratios between the two time periods, the authors found variation in the change in contribution revenue and fundraising ratio between the two periods between subsectors. The authors also find that the percentage of nonprofits able to “pivot” their fundraising strategies varies by subsector between 13.33 and 31.23%.Originality/valueThis paper provides new information regarding the pandemic's initial effect on nonprofit program and fundraising spending, the related contribution revenue and the ability of nonprofits to “pivot” fundraising to remote strategies. The authors propose a more robust fundraising efficiency measure and a new measure indicating a nonprofit's “ability to pivot” their fundraising strategy. The authors encourage future researchers to conduct further longitudinal studies to understand how these effects may continue or change.

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Deep pockets or empty coffers? Functional expenses, contribution revenue and the ability of nonprofits to pivot during COVID-19

Burke-Kolehmainen,

Intindola

2023

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“…Their many social and societal, civic and economic functions make them a sector of prime importance (e.g., Wang & Cheng, 2021). Nevertheless, the Covid‐19 crisis has also exacerbated the difficulties encountered by French GVOs, both in terms of mobilizing new volunteers and uncertain funding (Le Mouvement Associatif et al, 2021; Plaisance, 2022). French GVOs are also wondering about their place in post‐crisis society.…”

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French grassroots volunteer organizations and prospective: Challenges and avenues for nonprofit research

Plaisance

2024

Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing

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This article explores the importance of prospective for practitioners in the sector of grassroots volunteer organizations (GVOs, as associations). Prospective can be defined as an attitude of studying the future that must lead to action. In this, in times of crisis, prospective seems crucial and the GVOs' point of view can open a research agenda. The French case of GVOs deserves more attention because of their characteristics (e.g., 90% of GVOs have no employees, 75% of them have an annual budget of less than 10,000 euros), their relationship with the public authorities and their strong social impact on the community. The scenarios of evolution of the GVOs sector proposed by La Fonda are analyzed and become filters for the reading of the French literature dedicated to GVOs. They lead to four lines of research (isomorphism; normalization and standardization; evaluation and impact; organizational capacities). Following this, a research agenda dedicated to French GVOs is proposed. This work has intrinsic implications, conducting a literature review and proposing a research agenda compared to international agendas. It highlights the challenges GVOs face and the differences between desirable research in France and international research agendas. It constitutes possible inspirations for GVOs leaders thanks to a synoptic table.

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“…Another example can be the resilience of NPOs. It relies on their ability to manage dependencies by making them mutual and reciprocal (Plaisance, 2022a, c).…”

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Evaluation in nonprofit organizations: A defense of perception as a managerial and scientific tool

Plaisance¹

2023

Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing

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Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are subject to multiple pressures from their stakeholders. Stakeholders are at the same time the target of the organization's mission, the evaluators, the providers of resources and the demanders. This article is an essay that defends reciprocal perception as a managerial tool. The proposed intellectual path leads to the revalorization of stakeholder perception as a very useful practical and scientific tool for the management and study of NPOs. However, perception has limitations that the introduction of the concept of reciprocity can address.

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French non-profit organizations after one year of Covid-19: Insights into organizational resilience

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Deep pockets or empty coffers? Functional expenses, contribution revenue and the ability of nonprofits to pivot during COVID-19

Deep pockets or empty coffers? Functional expenses, contribution revenue and the ability of nonprofits to pivot during COVID-19

French grassroots volunteer organizations and prospective: Challenges and avenues for nonprofit research

Evaluation in nonprofit organizations: A defense of perception as a managerial and scientific tool

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