Editor's Notes

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21111
• Published date: 01 June 2014
• Date: 01 June 2014
• Author: Duncan Neuhauser

NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP, vol. 24, no. 4, Summer 2014 © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 425

Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/nml.21111

EDITOR’S NOTES

IN THIS ISSUE, Rita Mano examines 138 nonprofi t organizations

and measures four different types of networking in “Network-

ing Modes and Performance in Israel’s Nonprofi t Organizations.”

She found that sharing and consulting approaches to networking

predict nonprofi t resource growth.

Patricia Hughes, William Luksetich, and Patrick Rooney found

that government grant funding had a greater impact on large orches-

tras in “Crowding-Out and Fundraising Efforts: The Impact of

Government Grants on Symphony Orchestras.” For every $100 of

government grants, there was a reduction of $8.50 in fundraising

effort. However, one dollar of government funding is related to an

additional $2.60 in private donations for big orchestras.

In their article, “The Influence of Information Costs on Donor

Decision Making,” Lindsey McDougle and Femida Handy use the

results from a California residents’ telephone survey. They exam-

ined the costs of information gathering strategies about nonprofit

performance used by potential donors. These strategies include past

experience, social networks, the Internet and accrediting organiza-

tions. For example, people who have been volunteers look more

closely before contributing.

Richard Clerkin and James Swiss surveyed 4,400 volunteers

who had worked on a week-long project to improve housing in

Appalachia and present their findings in “Does Charging Nonprofit

Volunteers Affect their Satisfaction?” The volunteers each paid $310

to participate in the project, and the fees were seen as discouraging

by some volunteers. Concern about fees was greater among young

volunteers.

Bonnie Johnson and John Pierce describe an interesting example

of a long-term effort to support nonprofit organizations in the state’s

105 counties in “Is County Level of Social, Creative, and Human

Capital Associated with Winning Humanities Grants in Kansas?”

Over half of these counties have lost population, and quite a few of

them have never received a small grant from the Kansas Humanities

Council. This absence of support cannot be explained by county

size, racial diversity, income inequality, or political ideology. Social,

creative, and human capital provide an explanation.