Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-R: Mobilizing Nonprofit Resources and Talents with a Community Tool for Purpose-Driven Work

这个项目正在迭代地设计、评估和改进一个社区工具，它为非营利组织提供了一种新的方式来获得必要的资源和人才，以支持他们以目的为导向的需求。这一平台可以增加中小型非营利组织的集体影响力，这些组织提供关键的社会和人类服务，特别是为历史上被边缘化和低收入社区提供服务。该项目与非营利组织合作，将受影响工人的经验整合到迭代设计和评估过程中。通过集体影响框架，该项目旨在确保该平台仍然是一个社区工具，尊重非营利组织的时间和才华，并使非营利组织能够以包容、可扩展和公平的方式随着时间的推移共享人才和资源。研究团队正在衡量其对工人、非营利组织和社区的变革影响，并正在研究非营利组织员工在工作场所之间的流动体验、对有意义工作的追求以及归属感和目的感。该项目汇集了机制设计、社区参与、集体影响、应用伦理、非营利领导、组合优化和法律等领域的专业知识。正在开发新的机制，以进行经常性的多边组合交换，使非营利组织能够通过结合储存的信用调动自己的资金来暂时获得新的资源。这些都是由包容、公平和可扩展的严格参与规则提供信息的。每一集重复播出的节目都会交换所提供的资源，使用组合优化来以最大化集体社区价值的方式重新分配资源和积分。正在利用以社区为基础的参与性行动研究共同设计接战规则。一个包容性的发展进程反复地将反映动员起来的工人和非营利组织领导人的经验的定量技术反馈和定性反馈结合在一起。此外，正在制定一个框架，以衡量变革的影响，并说明对工人的归属感和目标的影响，以及对工人对其作为变革推动者的角色和他们追求有意义工作的信心的影响；非营利组织确定组织优先事项和规划的能力在多大程度上得到了转变；以及工作场所之间的流动如何能够在当地社区带来新的专业发展机会和人才留住。最后，该项目正在探索将技术作为理论框架的骨干支持并在非营利社区内产生进一步合作的潜力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is iteratively designing, assessing, and refining a community tool that provides a new way for nonprofits to obtain the necessary resources and talents to support their purpose-driven needs. This platform can increase the collective impact of small-to-medium nonprofit organizations that provide critical social and human services, particularly for historically marginalized and low-income communities. Partnering with nonprofits, this project integrates the experiences of impacted workers into the iterative design and assessment process. Through a collective impact framework, the project aims to ensure that the platform remains a community tool that honors the time and talents of nonprofit workers and enables nonprofit organizations to share talents and resources in an inclusive, scalable, and fair way over time. The research team is measuring its transformative impact on workers, nonprofits, and the community and is studying nonprofit workers’ inter-workplace mobility experiences, pursuit of meaningful work, and sense of belonging and purpose.This project convergently brings together expertise in domains including mechanism design, community engagement, collective impact, applied ethics, nonprofit leadership, combinatorial optimization, and law. New mechanisms are being developed to conduct recurrent multilateral combinatorial exchanges, enabling nonprofits to temporarily acquire new resources by mobilizing their own in conjunction with stored credits. These are being informed by rigorous rules of engagement that are inclusive, fair, and scalable. Each recurrent episode features an exchange of offered resources, using combinatorial optimization to reallocate both resources and credits in a way that maximizes collective community value. Rules of engagement are being co-designed using community-based participatory action research. An inclusive development process iteratively integrates both quantitative technology feedback and qualitative feedback reflecting the experiences of mobilized workers and nonprofit leaders. In addition, a framework is being developed to measure the transformative impact and to illuminate the influence on workers’ sense of belonging and purpose, as well as workers’ confidence in their roles as change agents and their pursuit of meaningful work; the extent to which nonprofits’ capabilities for organizational priority-setting and planning are transformed; and how enabled inter-workplace mobility can lead to new professional development opportunities and talent retention in the local community. Finally, this project is exploring the potential for technology to serve as the backbone support for the theoretical framework and engender further cooperation within the nonprofit community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.