Amanda J Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4401333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda J Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda J |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5738-1324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outcome Insights
Providing services for a diverse population requires a shift in paradigms and mechanisms. New Public Governance (NPG) provides insights on the need for collaborative actions between organizations from all sectors. This study applies an NPG lens to investigate a state’s effort to enhance mental health and substance use recovery through building capacity in peer-support service providing organizations (SPOs). We used 37 participant interviews from …
Accessing the Boardroom
Boards of directors hold critical oversight and governance functions for nonprofit organizations. Even though nonprofit research has stressed the importance of engaging board members in research designs, boards can be surprisingly inaccessible given their volunteer status, rotating term limits, and the protective role of an executive who serves as a gatekeeper to board contact information. For research interested in engaging directly with board m…
True Grit
The nonprofit sector has been portrayed as resilient, describing a sector that persists despite challenges. We investigate nonprofit resiliency by examining how organizational characteristics, strategies, and community factors equipped organizations to recover following economic recessions. Utilizing a fixed effects panel regression model, our study covers a period of 29 years (1989–2018), encompassing three economic crises in the United States. …
How Are Nonprofit Workers Doing? Investigating the Personal and Professional Impact of Covid-19
COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges to the nonprofit sector, and while evidence is accruing about its impact on nonprofit finances and operations, less is known about how nonprofit workers are faring. With so many organizations in the increasingly professionalized nonprofit sector reliant upon their paid staff, this study assesses how COVID-19 has changed the way nonprofit workers think about their current and future work. We use a su…
Minding the Gap
Nonprofit boards of directors are responsible for overseeing executive transitions, and the practitioner literature is rich with prescriptive guidance of how they should fulfill this vital responsibility. Nevertheless, we have limited evidence of what boards actually do as they navigate the space between an outgoing and an incoming executive, and moreover, we have no research that seeks to explain this critical juncture from a theoretical perspec…
Inside the Black Box
Foundations have been described as black boxes — implying that we know very little about what happens between inputs and outputs. We do know that they operate in dynamic environments and must adopt strategies to be effective in the face of change. This article, which examines the strategies of 29 foundations operating in one southeastern state, provides fresh insights into how foundations fulfill their missions. The article is based on a research…
Toward More Targeted Capacity Building
Investments to build nonprofit organizational capacity have increased rapidly in recent years as both funders and nonprofits seek ways to improve performance. Yet, while research has elucidated the variety of capacity areas organizations generally depend on, we do not yet have a clear empirical understanding of which capacity areas are important to focus on developing or how these capacity needs vary across organizations. Using a life-cycle persp…
Administrative Growth and Grant Payouts in Nonprofit Foundations
The Tax Reform Act of 1969 remains the core governing policy for the U.S. foundation sector, primarily for its qualifying distributions mandate, which ensures a baseline spending of foundation assets toward charitable purposes. However, implementation of this policy required additional foundation administrative resources and contributed to significant professionalization of the foundation sector. This article focuses on the payout requirement's p…
Toward More Targeted Capacity Building
Investments to build nonprofit organizational capacity have increased rapidly in recent years as both funders and nonprofits seek ways to improve performance. Yet, while research has elucidated the variety of capacity areas organizations generally depend on, we do not yet have a clear empirical understanding of which capacity areas are important to focus on developing or how these capacity needs vary across organizations. Using a life-cycle persp…
Accessing the Boardroom
Boards of directors hold critical oversight and governance functions for nonprofit organizations. Even though nonprofit research has stressed the importance of engaging board members in research designs, boards can be surprisingly inaccessible given their volunteer status, rotating term limits, and the protective role of an executive who serves as a gatekeeper to board contact information. For research interested in engaging directly with board m…
Administrative Growth and Grant Payouts in Nonprofit Foundations
The Tax Reform Act of 1969 remains the core governing policy for the U.S. foundation sector, primarily for its qualifying distributions mandate, which ensures a baseline spending of foundation assets toward charitable purposes. However, implementation of this policy required additional foundation administrative resources and contributed to significant professionalization of the foundation sector. This article focuses on the payout requirement's p…
Toward More Targeted Capacity Building
Investments to build nonprofit organizational capacity have increased rapidly in recent years as both funders and nonprofits seek ways to improve performance. Yet, while research has elucidated the variety of capacity areas organizations generally depend on, we do not yet have a clear empirical understanding of which capacity areas are important to focus on developing or how these capacity needs vary across organizations. Using a life-cycle persp…
Inside the Black Box
Foundations have been described as black boxes — implying that we know very little about what happens between inputs and outputs. We do know that they operate in dynamic environments and must adopt strategies to be effective in the face of change. This article, which examines the strategies of 29 foundations operating in one southeastern state, provides fresh insights into how foundations fulfill their missions. The article is based on a research…
Minding the Gap
Nonprofit boards of directors are responsible for overseeing executive transitions, and the practitioner literature is rich with prescriptive guidance of how they should fulfill this vital responsibility. Nevertheless, we have limited evidence of what boards actually do as they navigate the space between an outgoing and an incoming executive, and moreover, we have no research that seeks to explain this critical juncture from a theoretical perspec…
How Are Nonprofit Workers Doing? Investigating the Personal and Professional Impact of Covid-19
COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges to the nonprofit sector, and while evidence is accruing about its impact on nonprofit finances and operations, less is known about how nonprofit workers are faring. With so many organizations in the increasingly professionalized nonprofit sector reliant upon their paid staff, this study assesses how COVID-19 has changed the way nonprofit workers think about their current and future work. We use a su…
Outcome Insights
Providing services for a diverse population requires a shift in paradigms and mechanisms. New Public Governance (NPG) provides insights on the need for collaborative actions between organizations from all sectors. This study applies an NPG lens to investigate a state’s effort to enhance mental health and substance use recovery through building capacity in peer-support service providing organizations (SPOs). We used 37 participant interviews from …
Accessing the Boardroom
Boards of directors hold critical oversight and governance functions for nonprofit organizations. Even though nonprofit research has stressed the importance of engaging board members in research designs, boards can be surprisingly inaccessible given their volunteer status, rotating term limits, and the protective role of an executive who serves as a gatekeeper to board contact information. For research interested in engaging directly with board m…
True Grit
The nonprofit sector has been portrayed as resilient, describing a sector that persists despite challenges. We investigate nonprofit resiliency by examining how organizational characteristics, strategies, and community factors equipped organizations to recover following economic recessions. Utilizing a fixed effects panel regression model, our study covers a period of 29 years (1989–2018), encompassing three economic crises in the United States. …
Business (7 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Perspective (graphical (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works)