| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2011 | 946 |
| 2 | Volunteerism Research | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2012 | 604 |
| 3 | Diversification of Revenue Strategies: Evolving Resource Dependence in Nonprofit Organizations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1999 | 571 |
| 4 | Determinants of Voluntary Association Participation and Volunteering: A Literature Review | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1994 | 496 |
| 5 | Collaborative Value Creation | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2012 | 458 |
| 6 | Alternative Models of Government-Nonprofit Sector Relations: Theoretical and International Perspectives | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2000 | 450 |
| 7 | Defining Who is a Volunteer: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1996 | 445 |
| 8 | Nonprofit Organizations Becoming Business-Like | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2016 | 415 |
| 9 | Tweeting Social Change | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2014 | 377 |
| 10 | Accountability Myopia: Losing Sight of Organizational Learning | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2005 | 376 |
| 11 | Understanding Collaboration Among Nonprofit Organizations: Combining Resource Dependency, Institutional, and Network Perspectives | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2005 | 367 |
| 12 | Strategic Collaboration Between Nonprofits and Businesses | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2000 | 359 |
| 13 | The Purpose (and Perils) of Government-Nonprofit Partnership | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2007 | 325 |
| 14 | Volunteers' Motivations: Findings from a National Survey | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1996 | 316 |
| 15 | Collaborative Value Creation | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2012 | 305 |
| 16 | Managing for Value: Organizational Strategy in for-Profit, Nonprofit, and Governmental Organizations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2000 | 287 |
| 17 | Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2007 | 284 |
| 18 | Gender Differences in the Correlates of Volunteering and Charitable Giving | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2011 | 269 |
| 19 | Worker Motivations, Job Satisfaction, and Loyalty in Public and Nonprofit Social Services | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2006 | 267 |
| 20 | Measuring the Unmeasurable: Empirical Studies of Nonprofit Organization Effectiveness from 1977 to 1997 | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1998 | 266 |
| 21 | Strategic Collaboration Between Nonprofits and Businesses | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2000 | 259 |
| 22 | Does Participation in Voluntary Associations Contribute to Social Capital? The Impact of Intensity, Scope, and Type | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2002 | 259 |
| 23 | Theses on Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1999 | 257 |
| 24 | The Effects of Race, Gender, and Marital Status on Giving and Volunteering in Indiana | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2006 | 237 |
| 25 | Managing for Value: Organizational Strategy in for-Profit, Nonprofit, and Governmental Organizations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2000 | 234 |
| 26 | The Social Network Effect | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2014 | 230 |
| 27 | An Investigation of Innovation in Nonprofit Organizations: The Role of Organizational Mission | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2007 | 227 |
| 28 | Challenges in Multiple Cross-Sector Partnerships | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2009 | 226 |
| 29 | Refusing the Market | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2009 | 221 |
| 30 | Multiple Constituencies and the Social Construction of Nonprofit Organization Effectiveness | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1997 | 212 |
| 31 | Accountability Online: Understanding the Web-Based Accountability Practices of Nonprofit Organizations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2011 | 212 |
| 32 | The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining Identity-Based Service Provision and Political Action | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2002 | 211 |
| 33 | Community Variations in the Size and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector: Theory and Preliminary Findings | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2001 | 204 |
| 34 | A Model and Typology of Government-NGO Relationships | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1998 | 200 |
| 35 | Volunteering Versus Managerialism: Conflict Over Organizational Identity in Voluntary Associations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2011 | 200 |
| 36 | Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and with Whom | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2001 | 196 |
| 37 | Volunteering: A Serious Leisure Perspective | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1996 | 188 |
| 38 | A Cross-Cultural Examination of Student Volunteering: Is It All About Résumé Building? | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2010 | 188 |
| 39 | Do Nonprofit Boards Make a Difference? An Exploration of the Relationships Among Board Structure, Process, and Effectiveness | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1992 | 187 |
| 40 | When is Administrative Efficiency Associated With Charitable Donations? | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2007 | 184 |
| 41 | Defining Social Enterprise Across Different Contexts | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2013 | 184 |
| 42 | The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2012 | 181 |
| 43 | Motivations to Volunteer and Their Associations With Volunteers’ Well-Being | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2016 | 180 |
| 44 | Organizational Capacity and Organizational Effectiveness among Street-Level Food Assistance Programs | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2002 | 175 |
| 45 | When Missions, Markets, and Politics Collide: Values and Strategy in the Nonprofit Human Services | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2000 | 172 |
| 46 | Implications of Welfare Reform: Do Nonprofit Survival Strategies Threaten Civil Society? | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1999 | 166 |
| 47 | The Rest of the Nonprofit Sector: Grassroots Associations as the Dark Matter Ignored in Prevailing "Flat Earth" Maps of the Sector | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1997 | 161 |
| 48 | Financial Vulnerability among Arts Organizations: A Test of the Tuckman-Chang Measures | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2001 | 161 |
| 49 | Volunteering and Charitable Giving: Do Religious and Associational Ties Promote Helping Behavior? | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 1995 | 160 |
| 50 | Accountability, Strategy, and International Nongovernmental Organizations | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | 2001 | 153 |
