Karl Besel

Biographic Data

ID4127955
NAMEKarl Besel
GIVEN NAMESKarl
FAMILY NAMEBesel
SIGNATUREBESEL K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Racial Justice in the Nonprofit Sector: Addressing Nonprofit Sustainability in Diverse Communities

    Karl Besel, K Tyrone Spann et al.ARTICLEPublic Integrity2024References: 17

    Nonprofit organizations in the United States depend upon a diverse set of funding streams to sustain their operations. This study will consist of revisiting the 2011 Nonprofit Management and Leadership article “Nonprofit Sustainability During Times of Uncertainty,” which examined the ability of nonprofits to leverage funds from the private sector during the 2008 economic downturn, with specific attention on how nonprofits incorporated board membe…

  • Historical Preservation in Havana: Planning for the Next Generation of NGO Leaders

    Open AccessKarl Besel, Karl Besel Karl Besel et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Cuban…2017

    Havana is home to some of the most impressive and best preserved historical monuments not only in the Caribbean, but in North America as a whole. While small and restricted by governmental policies, Cuban nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) have worked in tandem with national and international groups to foster successful preservation strategies with regard to primary tourist sites. The next generation of NGO leaders will need to expand this focu…

  • Development of a Brief Abstinence Self-Efficacy Measure

    Patrick Mckiernan, Richard Cloud et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Practice…2011

    This study compared the 40-item Alcohol Abstinence Self-Efficacy (AASE) scale with domains of confidence and temptation to a new 12-item version developed by the authors consisting of the same domains. There were 126 participants who completed the survey. Psychometric analysis demonstrated high reliability and validity consisting of high correlations between domains of confidence (α = .92) and temptation (α = .88) in the 40-item version of the sc…

  • Improving Access to Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Consumers with Aids: A Formative Evaluation

    R Lyle Cooper, Richard N Cloud et al.ARTICLEJournal of Evidence-Based Social…2010References: 1

    This paper presents the findings of a formative evaluation used to guide the implementation of programming funded by an HIV/Treatment Capacity Expansion grant received from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. Data were gathered from programmatic records regarding access to treatment, individual interviews with persons with HIV referred to treatment that did not attend, and interviews with persons with HIV currently receiving substan…

  • The Struggle to Survive: The Power of Partnerships in the Quest for Nonprofit Sustainability

    Open AccessKarl Besel, Ngoan Hoang et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2004

    This article provides information about a Youth Service Bureau's (YSB) experience in collaborating with court officials to expand services and a subsequent funding base. YSBs, like many other nonprofit human service agencies, have found that partnering with local governmental officials, especially judges, can enhance sustainability. Implications for strengthening partnerships between local nonprofits and county judges are discussed

  • The Role of Local Governmental Funding in Nonprofit Survival

    Open AccessKarl BeselARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2001

    Nonprofit social service organizations in America originally relied on private donations and charitable events to sustain their operations. As the number of nonprofit organizations has proliferated over the last few decades, so has nonprofit dependency on governmental and other sources of revenue. A case study design was used to examine factors that have impacted the survival of the original Indiana Youth Service Bureaus. This study highlights sa…