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Leadership, Empowerment, And Social Capital In A Civil Society Mental Health Program Population In El Salvador, Samuel V. Nickels

Dissertations, 2014-2019

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Leadership, empowerment and social capital have been associated with successful outcomes for grassroots and nonprofit organizations, but little experimental research exists to demonstrate this connection. The purpose of this study is to determine whether participants in a civil society program in El Salvador have achieved attributes of leadership, empowerment, and social capital above that observed in a group of non-participants.

This study is a single-measure comparison of all available participants in an intervention program with a matched control group. The target population is persons with mental illness and their family caregivers (n=140). The intervention is a community-based mental health …

Nonprofit Leadership: A Study Of Governance Changes Over Time, Daisha M. Merritt

Dissertations, 2014-2019

This is a leadership study understood through board governance in nonprofit organizations. The study sought to discover if there were indicators of coercive institutional isomorphism occurring in human service nonprofit organizations in the United States. IRS 990 tax forms were compiled from 2008- 2012 to determine if there were increasing levels of reported governance practices. Methodology included factor analysis, comparison of means, trend analysis, and regression models. Results indicated that there is an overall trend of increasing reported practices of governance in human service nonprofit organizations. Board size is the most significant indicator associated with changes in reported governance practices. …

Combating Occupational Apartheid Plaguing Internationally Trained Professionals: A Mixed Methods Description Of Activist Entrepreneurship In Cross-Sector Partnerships, Stephen Wayne Lambert

Dissertations, 2014-2019

Individuals that were born in a foreign country, have a bachelor’s degree or higher from a foreign post-secondary education institution, and are not working at their full level of expertise, are referred to more concisely as “internationally trained professionals” (ITPs). Social workers have called becoming informed about immigrants’ integration needs a new frontier of social service and professional development. All fields of human services will benefit from any data resulting from descriptive exploration of the ITP integration issue. The bounded system that serves for this case study is the current limited response to the ITP issue seen in Virginia, USA. …