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• From the Editors' Desk
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  Handy, F., Brudney, J. L., Meijs, L. C. P. M.
• Book Review: Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action: Historical Perspectives on Current Social Policy
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  Lupton, S.
• National Campaigns for Charitable Causes: A Literature Review
  The authors present the first cross-national comparison of more than 300 national campaigns for charitable causes in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United States for the period 1950 to 2011. The authors study frequency and amounts raised, discuss successful and failed campaigns, and review the literature with regard to potential determinants of succ […]
  van Leeuwen, M. H. D., Wiepking, P.
• Demographic Determinants of Perceived Barriers to Community Involvement: Examining Rural/Urban Differences
  Communities all rely to some degree on residents to serve in and lead the local organizations that make those communities vital. Recognizing barriers experienced by specific groups helps community leaders identify why various groups do not participate. Using data from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey, this analysis examines perceived barriers to comm […]
  Torgerson, M., Edwards, M. E.
• National Giving Campaigns in the United States: Entertainment, Empathy, and the National Peer Group
  This study presents a narrative history and quantitative analysis of national campaigns in the United States, and analyzes how successful campaigns provide entertainment, foster empathy, and develop a national peer group with norms and networks that encourage giving. Our historical survey found that charity telethons flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, but ch […]
  Einolf, C. J., Philbrick, D. M., Slay, K.
• Book Review: The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
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  Barber, P.
• Picturing Generosity: Explaining the Success of National Campaigns in the Netherlands
  In this study, we investigate the success of national campaigns for charitable causes in the Netherlands using historical data from archival sources, including newspapers, and the internet. We describe the 102 national campaigns held in the Netherlands between 1951 and 2011, focusing on uniquely Dutch contextual features such as a society organized along ver […]
  Wiepking, P., van Leeuwen, M. H. D.
• Assessing the Scope of Immigrant Organizations: Official Undercounts and Actual Underrepresentation
  We examine the official scope and actual coverage of immigrant civil society in seven California cities using a widely employed 501(c)3 database. First, we code immigrant organizations in official data and compare their number and proportion with population statistics; we find substantially fewer immigrant organizations than we would expect. Second, we measu […]
  Gleeson, S., Bloemraad, I.
• Charitable Giving in a Universal Welfare State--Charity and Social Rights in Sweden
  The aim of this article is to explore how charitable giving is structured in a universal welfare state. The article presents new data based on more than 200 national fundraising campaigns in Sweden during the past 60 years. The varying success of these campaigns for different causes creates a historical pattern of charitable giving under a social democratic […]
  Vamstad, J., von Essen, J.
• Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness: Comparison of Nonprofit, Public, and Private Organizations
  Few studies have compared the mitigation and preparedness activities adopted by nonprofit, private, and public organizations. This study contributes to this important literature by comparing the adoption of mitigation and preparedness activities by nonprofit, private, and public organizations in Memphis, Tennessee. The findings show that although nonprofit o […]
  Chikoto, G. L., Sadiq, A.-A., Fordyce, E.