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

该项目正在反复设计、评估和完善一个社区工具，为非营利组织提供一种新的方式来获得必要的资源和人才，以支持其目的驱动的需求。这个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，尊重非营利工作者的时间和才能，并使非营利组织能够随着时间的推移以包容、可扩展和公平的方式分享人才和资源。该研究团队正在衡量其对员工、非营利组织和社区的变革性影响，并正在研究非营利组织员工的跨工作场所流动体验、对有意义工作的追求以及归属感和目标感。该项目汇聚了机制设计、社区参与、集体影响、应用伦理、非营利组织领导力、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流，使非营利组织能够通过调动自己的资金和储存的信贷暂时获得新的资源。这些都是由包容、公平和可扩展的严格的参与规则所指导的。每一个循环事件的特点是交换提供的资源，使用组合优化来重新分配资源和学分的方式，最大限度地提高集体社区价值。正在利用基于社区的参与性行动研究共同设计参与规则。一个包容性的发展过程迭代地整合定量技术反馈和定性反馈，反映了动员工人和非营利组织领导者的经验。此外，正在制定一个框架，以衡量变革影响，并说明对工人的归属感和目的的影响，以及工人对其作为变革推动者的作用和追求有意义的工作的信心;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性如何为当地社区带来新的专业发展机会和人才保留。最后，该项目正在探索技术作为理论框架的支柱支持的潜力，并在非营利社区内产生进一步的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.