Do voluntary civic engagement and non-profit leadership challenge local political leadership in urban development?

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Oto Potluka ◽  
Lenka Svecova ◽  
Lucie Zarubova
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Non Profit

How nonprofits use Facebook to craft infrastructure

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libby Hemphill ◽  
A.J. Million ◽  
Ingrid Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Choice ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Task Technology Fit

We present findings from interviews with 23 individuals affiliated with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to understand how they deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their civic engagement efforts. Existing research about NPO ICT use is often critical, but we did not find evidence that NPOs fail to use tools effectively. Rather, we detail how NPOs assemble various ICTs to create infrastructures that align with their values. Overall, we find that existing theories about technology choice (e.g., task-technology fit, uses and gratifications) do not explain the assemblages NPOs describe. We argue that the infrastructures they fashion can be explained through the lens of moral economies rather than utility. Together, the rhetorics of infrastructure and moral economies capture the motivations and constraints our participants expressed and challenge how prevailing theories of ICT use describe the non-profit landscape.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Molotch ◽  
Davide Ponzini
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Work Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Test Beds

The urban Gulf busts up past paradigms for understanding urban development. Markets are only partially operative, democracy is absent and civic engagement is weak. But some of its large and sophisticated cities are now forces in the world. At the concrete level of development, there is less blockage from planners, regulations, or work-place rules. Gulf cities function as ‘test beds’ where designs, structures, and technologies can fast-track. Besides importing world trends, things happening in the Gulf now also move out of the Gulf. Gulf cities, due to their extremes, remain famous in their contradictions and compromises. Parts that would appear inconsistent, even mutually exclusive, are somehow made to cohere.

The Networked Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 794-808
Author(s):  
Ozlem Hesapci-Sanaktekin ◽  
Yonca Aslanbay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
Social Cause ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Day By Day

The number of digital networks established for a common social ‘cause' having passion of civic activism increase globally day by day. The purpose of this study is to provide explanations for civic engagement through social media causes. In the current study, a structured questionnaire is administered to 308 social media users in Turkey. The findings refine existing research bringing a new perspective to collectivism by explaining civic engagement in specific areas through social media causes in terms of individualistic values, self-identity (social vs. personal) and social media use. Overall findings ascertain social media's role on raising social capital while enhancing not only the individual selves but also collective performances through diverse civic cause engagements. The study has significant outcomes for both non-profit and profit organizations in building strategies of communication with their stakeholders through digital means.

Civic Engagement and Strategic Leadership for Organizational Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 774-788
Author(s):  
Robert W. Kisusu ◽  
Samson T. Tongori
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Financial Dependency ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

Community-based organizations (CBOs) are non-profit organizations established voluntarily by members in order to deliver specified services effectively. However, CBO development in Tanzania reported performing unsatisfactorily. This chapter highlights causal key problems and controversial and established solutions that can improve CBO development. Among the problems are financial dependency, weak managerial skills, low ICT coverage, gender inequality, poverty, and poor infrastructure. But the controversial issues are ineffective consultation between key actors and gender dominated by males. To achieve CBO development, the chapter notes the use of civic engagement, especially sensitization, awareness creation while strategic leadership focus on voluntary, sacrificial and compromising leaderships. The chapter concludes that CBO development in Tanzania is best to apply components of civic engagement and strategic leadership while the recommendation is to combine and integrate both civic engagement and strategic leadership with their essential sub-components.

Civic Engagement and Strategic Leadership for Organizational Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Robert W. Kisusu ◽  
Samson T. Tongori
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Financial Dependency ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

Community-based organizations (CBOs) are non-profit organizations established voluntarily by members in order to deliver specified services effectively. However, CBO development in Tanzania reported performing unsatisfactorily. This chapter highlights causal key problems and controversial and established solutions that can improve CBO development. Among the problems are financial dependency, weak managerial skills, low ICT coverage, gender inequality, poverty, and poor infrastructure. But the controversial issues are ineffective consultation between key actors and gender dominated by males. To achieve CBO development, the chapter notes the use of civic engagement, especially sensitization, awareness creation while strategic leadership focus on voluntary, sacrificial and compromising leaderships. The chapter concludes that CBO development in Tanzania is best to apply components of civic engagement and strategic leadership while the recommendation is to combine and integrate both civic engagement and strategic leadership with their essential sub-components.

scholarly journals An intraparty dispute at the beginning of the 1970s. The case of Pasaga Mandzic and Tuzla group

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Dženita Sarač-Rujanac ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post War ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Real Truth ◽  
Consistent Application

In this paper, the author emphasizes the specific case of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian intraparty dispute in the context of the reconstruction of the republican leaderships in Yugoslavia, the change of “Croatian Spring participants” and “liberals” as well as the so-called “senior cadres” at the beginning of 1970s. Pasaga Mandzic's years-long dispute with the current political leadership in Tuzla and also in the Republic will touch upon various issues, from plans and results of economic and urban development, integration of enterprises, organization and activities of political and party leadership to establishing the "historical truth" about the events throughout the war years 1941 and 1942. Considering the current socio-political discourse, Mandzic will come out very boldly, demanding that it is finally time to "speak openly" about the actual war events, the consequences of Partisan-Chetnik cooperation at the end of 1941, the dominance of the Serb element in the communist leadership and its attitude towards the Bosniaks during the war, but also in the post-war period. The insistence on establishing the "real truth" entailed a revision of the existing image of a "glorious war past", which also raised the question of consistent application of the principles of brotherhood and unity. Ultimately, years of clarification resulted in the political elimination and moral discredit of Pasaga Mandzic.

scholarly journals The Development of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Pierobon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
Low Levels

In the past two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that post – communist civil society is weak and structurally deficient and is characterised by low levels of social trust, voluntary organisational membership, and public participation. This article intends to challenge this academic consensus by providing an in-depth analysis of civil society development in Kyrgyzstan, a country, whose non-profit sector has been described as the most vibrant and plentiful of the Central Asian region. To this scope, the article analyses the ways and extent to which the national and international environments have influenced the development trajectory of Kyrgyz civil society. Special emphasis is placed on the specific forms and manifestations of civic engagement characterising the non-profit sector of the selected country and on the strategies it has implemented to overcome its weaknesses and vulnerabilities. The paper sheds new light on factors and features that have contributed to the strengths of Kyrgyz civil society and which can be used to increase our understanding of civil society developments in other transition countries.

Urban Sustainability and the “Greening” of Neoliberal Chicago

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lorr
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
City Government ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The City

Chapter abstract: This chapter addresses how the city government, related offices, non-profit organizations, and activists have attempted to shift Chicago’s urban development towards environmental sustainability. The chapter first, discusses what Chicago has accomplished, second, defines sustainability, third, outlines Chicago’s deficiencies in achieving its sustainability goals, and finally, presents alternative visions of sustainability rooted in resistance and activism. This chapter asks to what extent sustainable development in Chicago is influenced by its business-as-usual neoliberal context and to what extent it is influenced by alternative activist ideas of environmental justice.

scholarly journals A new model to explore non-profit social media use for advocacy and civic engagement

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chapman ◽  
Katrina Miller-Stevens ◽  
John C Morris ◽  
Brendan O'Hallarn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Non-profit organizations are actively using social media platforms as a way to deliver information to end users, yet little is known of the internal processes these organizations follow to implement this tool. We present a case study of one non-profit organization, Blue Star Families, Inc., that is actively engaged in advocacy and civic engagement. We offer a new model to explore non-profit organizations’ use of social media platforms by building on previous models and frameworks developed to explore the use of social media in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

Formal versus informal volunteering and wellbeing: does volunteering type matter for older adults?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-336
Author(s):  
Allison R. Russell ◽  
Eunhae Kim ◽  
Femida Handy ◽  
Zvi Gellis
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Formal Volunteering ◽  
Informal Volunteering ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Volunteer Engagement

Although the literature on volunteering and wellbeing among older adults is extensive, it tends to focus on this relationship within spaces of formal volunteering, such as non-profit organisations. However, informal volunteering and other forms of civic engagement may also promote improved wellbeing outcomes for this age group; likewise, these behaviours may be linked to the practice of formal volunteering with an organisation. Drawing on data from the Delaware subsample of the Successful Aging Survey, this article examines whether differences in volunteer engagement influence the relationship between volunteering and wellbeing outcomes among older adults.

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