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Purpose
Social ventures have been reported to have a hard time obtaining funding. A growing number of social ventures have used crowdfunding as a viable alternative fundraising tool. This paper aims to investigate among social ventures, what makes some more successful than others in crowdfunding.


Design/methodology/approach
Theoretically, this study builds upon three streams of literature: nonprofit fundraising literature, crowdfunding literature and social entrepreneurship literature. Empirically, it obtains data with a novel Web-crawling approach from the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform and analyzes them with a variety of statistical modeling.


Findings
This study finds that social ventures that have greater internal resources including team size and venture age, stronger partnerships with other entities and more frequent communications with backers via social media and updates have a higher tendency to successfully raise funds from the crowd than those social ventures that do not.


Originality/value
This study seeks to understand social ventures' crowdfunding performance and identify the specific factors that have led some social ventures to be more successful than other social ventures. It builds a novel data set and uses different statistical models to explore the intersection of social entrepreneurship and digital crowdfunding. In addition, this study provides actionable strategies for social ventures to improve their crowdfunding performance while providing practical implications for increasing people's knowledge of and participation in social entrepreneurship through education and public policy. Overall, this study contributes to both social entrepreneurship and crowdfunding literature while offering practical implications.

The present paper traces a chronological history, or roadmap, of the documentation produced by the European Union (EU) to promote and implement nature-based solutions (NBS) as an innovation action aiming to establish a socially inclusive, economically vibrant and ecologically resilient society. The EU's ambition is to position Europe as the world leader in NBS Research (via scientific research aiming at generating knowledge and theories) and Innovation (NBS implementation via identifying innovative approaches and best practices), as well as in a global market (for sharing, communicating, collaborating and promoting NBS). Considerable efforts have been made by the European Commission (the executive branch of the EU) as featured in a number of documents, funding programmes and Horizon 2020 (Research and Innovation) projects that span the period from 2012 to 2020. While the European Commission's commitment to promoting NBS within its Member States and beyond is still an ongoing process, we aim to review the efforts undertaken, knowledge gained, and practices accomplished. This roadmap intends to provide interested practitioners, policymakers, researchers, as well as civil organisations with an updated understanding of the leading role of the EU in NBS conceptualisation and operationalisation. This can inform future directions of NBS Research and Innovation actions, which in turn address environmental and societal challenges prompted by urbanisation/re-urbanisation, globalisation/de-globalisation, climate change and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.

This paper examines and compares the funding distribution inequities in arts organizations across three different funding institutions—government grantmaking, charitable contributions, and crowdfunding—through different inequity measures. Based on three different datasets including the National Endowment for the Arts grants data, National Center for Charitable Statistics data, and Kickstarter crowdfunding data starting in 2009, we find that compared to non-arts funds on the same platforms, arts-related funds in these institutions are not more concentrated in the hands of a few, although the level of concentration is strikingly high. In addition, we find that nonprofit contributions are heavily concentrated, far more than government grants. However, contributions to arts nonprofits are not more concentrated than to other nonprofits. We also explore how the pandemic crisis impacted arts funding distributions.

Cryptoaltruism refers to the ways in which distributed ledger technologies, especially blockchains, are changing the nature of the nonprofit sector. This study specifically investigates how the blockchain technology has been used by Ukrainian nonprofits during the current Russia-Ukraine War. To link this to the more general literature on blockchains, we consider whether blockchains are used primarily as a general-purpose technology or as an institutional technology which redefines how nonprofits coordinate activities. Our analysis of Ukrainian nonprofits provides evidence supporting both perspectives. Widespread acceptance of cryptocurrency suggests blockchains are an efficiency-enhancing new technology. We also show that novel applications on nonfungible tokens to preserve art and culture and to raise funds, as well as uses of blockchains to address challenges with trust, lend support to the idea of blockchains as an innovative institutional technology that is transforming the nature of the nonprofit sector. This study intends to motivate further development of the emergent agenda on cryptoaltruism and its role in the nonprofit sector.

AbstractPublic managers and administrators confront the increasing scale and prevalence of crises. Despite some deployments, blockchain applications by governments for emergency management and response management have only begun to scratch the surface. To facilitate greater awareness of the promises and challenges of blockchain applications to the public sector, we consider the ways in which distributed ledger technologies can improve emergency and crisis management across the dimensions of transparency, public trust, and social equity. The article ends with a call for a public administration research agenda on blockchains for emergency and crisis management.

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Our primary goal in this presentation is to provide a comprehensive review of literature as it pertains to the influence of the Syrian Refugee crisis in Jordan, Turkey and Germany.These countries have experienced an enormous influx of refugees which has caused a need for economic and political concern. First, we will examine the history of Syrian Civil War that led to the displacement of Syrian individuals and families. Second, we will evaluate the effects of Syrian migration on the economical and political situation in Jordan, Turkey, Germany. We will discuss the various policies implemented in each of the countries that either hinder or promote development and sustainability due to the change in population. We will propose policies that are both beneficial to the structure of these countries and supportive of the humanitarian well-being of the refugees themselves. In conclusion, we will discuss the implications that the refugee crisis has on the USA as well as practical steps we can take in our locally to support the incoming Syrian refugees who will resettle in our communities.