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Record W2918031632 · doi:10.1515/npf-2019-0003

Editor’s Note for Issue 9(4)

2019· article· en· W2918031632 on OpenAlex
Dennis R. Young

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNonprofit Policy Forum · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal principles and applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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This issue reflects a cosmos of the policy landscape of the global nonprofit sector today.The five papers span the globe from the U.S. to Africa to Australia and examine cutting edge developments including global nonprofit chains, charity law reform and new forms of social purpose organizations.In the lead paper, Ronelle Burger, Trudy Owens and Aseem Prakash examine how donor countries provide aid to developing countries through international nonprofits which then contract with nonprofits at the national level which in turn subcontract to local nonprofits.The question is then how well donor intent to serve the ultimate beneficiaries is actually achieved in this chain structure.The authors employ transactions cost theory to conclude that the chain structure can be problematic because of the difficulty of holding nonprofits in the chain accountable without constraining their flexibility to respond to local conditions.Three cases of aid to Ugandan nonprofits illustrate their arguments.The second paper, by Beth Gazley, Yuan Cheng and Chantalle Lafontant, takes a systematic look at charitable support of U.S. national and state parks, employing the theoretical perspective of co-production and a unique historical dataset.The authors find that charities are involved in parks in a variety of ways that respond to various aspects of government failure, and that reliance on private philanthropy is a lasting feature of public park provision.The third paper, by Ian Murray, studies the reform of charity regulation in Australia in the context of charity regulation in other federated countries such as the U.S., Canada and the UK.The paper analyzes the historical and political reasons for the reforms, the implementation challenges they face in Australia's federal system of government, as well as the potential for expanding the charity commissioner's responsibilities to include regulation of the broader nonprofit sector outside of charities per se.Continuing on the theme of regulation, the fourth paper, by Anthony DeMattee, develops a broad overview of the types of regulatory regimes that govern civil society organizations at the national level worldwide, discovering four ideal types reflecting the (more or less liberal) governmental regimes in which they are embedded.The author applies this taxonomy to Kenya to illuminate how its regulatory regime has evolved incrementally over time.The fifth paper, by Stefan Toepler, examines the "benefit corporation", a new type of legal form in the U.S. that allows firms to combine profitmaking with a social mission.Toepler notes that this development has created considerable apprehension among traditional nonprofit leaders who perceive the new form as a competitive threat.Based on a study in the state of Maryland, Toepler finds little grounds for such concern, but rather that the new form tends to be more of an option for for-profit firms to differentiate themselves from their own competitors in the business sector.We round out this issue with a book review by Mohamed Mohamed, of an important new book, Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions, written by Sabith Khan and Shariq Siddiqui.The book is significant for dispelling myths about Islamic education and philanthropy, and examining their place in the U.S. nonprofit sector alongside other religiously based nonprofit sector institutions.I hope you enjoy reading this issue.Thank you for your interest in Nonprofit Policy Forum.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.823
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.365
Teacher spread0.351 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it