A Schnable
Biographic Data
| ID | 370990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Schnable |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schnable |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNABLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3119-0690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS r…
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense
This article presents a new strategy for reviewing large, multidisciplinary academic literatures: a multi-method comprehensive review (MCR). We present this approach and demonstrate its use by the NGO Knowledge Collective, which aims to aggregate knowledge on NGOs in international development. We explain the process by which scholars can identify, analyze, and synthesize a population of hundreds or thousands of articles. MCRs facilitate cross-dis…
International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics
Scholars and practitioners of international development often note the use of ‘development buzzwords’: terms that represent hot topics in the field. Buzzwords characterise a development issue and imply elements of possible solutions. This article analyses the prevalence of these words in development discourse, asking who among donors, major nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), or academics adopts buzzwords earliest and uses them the most. We als…
Don’t reinvent the wheel: Possibilities for and limits to building capacity of grassroots international NGOs
How can support organisations build the capacity of volunteer-driven non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? Citizen aid for relief and development has expanded rapidly in the twenty-first century, and the number of American aid organisations operating in the Global South has grown to nearly 10,000. These grassroots international NGOs – GINGOs – are small-budget, volunteer-driven organisations typically launched by Americans without professional e…
NGOs and international development: A review of thirty-five years of scholarship
What Religion Affords Grassroots NGOs: Frames, Networks, Modes of Action
The international relief and development sector has swelled in the last two decades thanks to American grassroots NGOs: groups that rely on volunteer labor and individual contributions, often on budgets of less than $25,000 a year. Most of these organizations reject the label of 'faith-based organization,' yet they find the symbolic and material resources of religion indispensable. Religion affords these NGOs three kinds of resources to meet thei…
Religion and Giving for International Aid: Evidence from a Survey of U.S. Church Members
This article investigates the relationship between two well-documented patterns in charitable giving: the positive relationship between religion and generosity and the growth in the numbers of, and donations to, international aid organizations. I discuss three modes by which religion shapes Americans' preferences on international aid: values, social norms, and exposure to need. Using a 2005 national survey of church members, I find that (1) altru…
New American Relief and Development Organizations: Voluntarizing Global Aid
International aid has seen a trend towards decentralization and voluntary action in the last two decades. Relief and development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) registered with the IRS ballooned from about 1,000 in 1990 to over 11,000 in 2010, and most of these are small organizations run on a voluntary basis. These NGOs are headquartered in one-third of all U.S. counties, representing every state in the United States. How can we explain th…
Singing the gospel: Using musical practices to build religious and racial communities
What Religion Affords Grassroots NGOs: Frames, Networks, Modes of Action
The international relief and development sector has swelled in the last two decades thanks to American grassroots NGOs: groups that rely on volunteer labor and individual contributions, often on budgets of less than $25,000 a year. Most of these organizations reject the label of 'faith-based organization,' yet they find the symbolic and material resources of religion indispensable. Religion affords these NGOs three kinds of resources to meet thei…
New American Relief and Development Organizations: Voluntarizing Global Aid
International aid has seen a trend towards decentralization and voluntary action in the last two decades. Relief and development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) registered with the IRS ballooned from about 1,000 in 1990 to over 11,000 in 2010, and most of these are small organizations run on a voluntary basis. These NGOs are headquartered in one-third of all U.S. counties, representing every state in the United States. How can we explain th…
Don’t reinvent the wheel: Possibilities for and limits to building capacity of grassroots international NGOs
How can support organisations build the capacity of volunteer-driven non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? Citizen aid for relief and development has expanded rapidly in the twenty-first century, and the number of American aid organisations operating in the Global South has grown to nearly 10,000. These grassroots international NGOs – GINGOs – are small-budget, volunteer-driven organisations typically launched by Americans without professional e…
Singing the gospel: Using musical practices to build religious and racial communities
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense
This article presents a new strategy for reviewing large, multidisciplinary academic literatures: a multi-method comprehensive review (MCR). We present this approach and demonstrate its use by the NGO Knowledge Collective, which aims to aggregate knowledge on NGOs in international development. We explain the process by which scholars can identify, analyze, and synthesize a population of hundreds or thousands of articles. MCRs facilitate cross-dis…
Singing the gospel: Using musical practices to build religious and racial communities
Religion and Giving for International Aid: Evidence from a Survey of U.S. Church Members
This article investigates the relationship between two well-documented patterns in charitable giving: the positive relationship between religion and generosity and the growth in the numbers of, and donations to, international aid organizations. I discuss three modes by which religion shapes Americans' preferences on international aid: values, social norms, and exposure to need. Using a 2005 national survey of church members, I find that (1) altru…
New American Relief and Development Organizations: Voluntarizing Global Aid
International aid has seen a trend towards decentralization and voluntary action in the last two decades. Relief and development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) registered with the IRS ballooned from about 1,000 in 1990 to over 11,000 in 2010, and most of these are small organizations run on a voluntary basis. These NGOs are headquartered in one-third of all U.S. counties, representing every state in the United States. How can we explain th…
What Religion Affords Grassroots NGOs: Frames, Networks, Modes of Action
The international relief and development sector has swelled in the last two decades thanks to American grassroots NGOs: groups that rely on volunteer labor and individual contributions, often on budgets of less than $25,000 a year. Most of these organizations reject the label of 'faith-based organization,' yet they find the symbolic and material resources of religion indispensable. Religion affords these NGOs three kinds of resources to meet thei…
NGOs and international development: A review of thirty-five years of scholarship
Don’t reinvent the wheel: Possibilities for and limits to building capacity of grassroots international NGOs
How can support organisations build the capacity of volunteer-driven non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? Citizen aid for relief and development has expanded rapidly in the twenty-first century, and the number of American aid organisations operating in the Global South has grown to nearly 10,000. These grassroots international NGOs – GINGOs – are small-budget, volunteer-driven organisations typically launched by Americans without professional e…
International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics
Scholars and practitioners of international development often note the use of ‘development buzzwords’: terms that represent hot topics in the field. Buzzwords characterise a development issue and imply elements of possible solutions. This article analyses the prevalence of these words in development discourse, asking who among donors, major nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), or academics adopts buzzwords earliest and uses them the most. We als…
Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS r…
The Multi-method Comprehensive Review: Synthesis and Analysis when Scholarship is International, Interdisciplinary, and Immense
This article presents a new strategy for reviewing large, multidisciplinary academic literatures: a multi-method comprehensive review (MCR). We present this approach and demonstrate its use by the NGO Knowledge Collective, which aims to aggregate knowledge on NGOs in international development. We explain the process by which scholars can identify, analyze, and synthesize a population of hundreds or thousands of articles. MCRs facilitate cross-dis…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (2 works)