Editor's Notes

• Author: Duncan Neuhauser
• Published date: 01 December 2013
• Date: 01 December 2013
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21091

NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP, vol. 24, no. 2, Winter 2013 © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 135

Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/nml.21091

EDITOR’S NOTES

CONGRATULATIONS TO Mark A. Hager and Jeffrey L. Brudney,

winners of this year’s NML Editors’ Prize, awarded to the

best scholarly paper published in Volume 22. Their article,

“Problems Recruiting Volunteers: Nature versus Nurture,” ad-

dressed the conditions for successful volunteer recruitment. Some

of these conditions are beyond the manager’s control and some are

malleable. However, the nonprofi t manager needs to deal with both

kinds of conditions. Their article appeared in vol. 22, no. 2 (Winter

2011), 137–156. The Editors’ Prize comes with a $1,000 honorar-

ium from the Weatherhead School of Management and $1,000 in

books from Jossey-Bass.

In this issue Larry Hearld, Jeffrey Alexander, Laura Bodenschatz,

Christopher Louis, and Jennifer O’Hora observed fourteen multisec-

tor community health alliances in their article, “Decision-Making

Fairness and Consensus Building in Multisector Community Health

Alliances: A Mixed-Methods Analysis.” The authors found that the

perceived level of consensus was a function of inclusiveness, per-

ceived benefi ts relative to costs, transparent decision-making, and a

sense of procedural and distributive fairness.

Olga Samuel, Patricia Wolf, and Axel Schilling address the ques-

tion: How can nonprofi ts best use the help of corporate volunteer

managers? Their article, “Corporate Volunteering: Benefits and

Challenges for Nonprofi ts,” presents data from eight Swiss nonprofi t

organizations. They conclude that there is no simple answer to a

mutually benefi cial blend of the two different cultures involved.

In their article, “Sources of Volunteer Motivation: Transforma-

tional Leadership and Personal Motives Infl uence Volunteer Out-

comes,” Patrick Dwyer, Joyce Bono, Mark Snyder, Oded Nov, and

Yair Berson surveyed 302 volunteers about personal motives for vol-

unteering, and the satisfaction gained from that experience. The

authors found that motives that predicted volunteer contribution

were different from motives that predicted satisfaction. They offer

advice to nonprofi t managers about recruitment and retention of

volunteers.

Darla Hamann and Ting Ren compare two different theories

about wage inequality in nonprofi t and for-profi t nursing homes—

tournament and fair wage—in “Wage Inequality and Performance in

Nonprofi t and For-Profi t Organizations.” They take advantage of the

fact that nonprofi t and for-profi t nursing homes compete in the same

market place, and that their service quality is being measured and