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

合作研究：FW-HTF-R：利用社区工具调动非营利资源和人才，开展有目的的工作

• 批准号: 2222713
• 负责人: Andrew Trapp
• 金额: $ 115.39万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; FW; HTF; Mobilizing

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.

该项目正在迭代设计，评估和完善社区工具，该工具为非营利组织提供了一种获得必要的资源和才华来满足其目标驱动需求的新方法。该平台可以增加提供关键社会和人类服务的小型非营利组织的集体影响，尤其是对于历史上边缘化和低收入社区而言。该项目与非营利组织合作，将受影响工人的经验纳入迭代设计和评估过程。通过集体影响框架，该项目旨在确保平台仍然是一种社区工具，旨在尊重非营利组织的时间和才能，并使非营利组织能够随着时间的推移以包容性，可扩展性和公正的方式共享才能和资源。研究团队正在衡量其对工人，非营利组织和社区的变革性影响，并正在研究非营利工人的工人间活动经验，追求有意义的工作以及归属和目的的感觉。该项目汇聚在域中汇集了专家，包括机械机制，社区互动，集体影响，应用伦理学，非应用程序，非营利性，优化，兼职和法律，包括机制机制，以及。正在开发新的机制来进行经常性的多边组合交流，从而使非营利组织能够通过与存储的信用融合来临时获取新资源。这些都是由包容性，公平和可扩展性的严格参与规则所告知的。每个经常性的情节都有提供提供的资源的交换，并使用组合优化以最大化集体社区价值的方式重新分配资源和学分。参与规则正在使用基于社区的参与行动研究共同设计。包容性的发展过程迭代地整合了定量技术反馈和定性反馈，反映了动员工人和非营利性领导者的经历。此外，正在开发一个框架，以衡量变革性的影响，并阐明对工人归属感和目的的影响，以及工人对他们作为变革推动者的角色的信心以及对有意义的工作的追求；非营利组织在组织优先级设定和计划方面的能力的变化程度；启用工程间的移动性如何导致新的专业发展机会和当地社区的人才保留。最后，该项目正在探索技术作为对骨干框架的骨干支持的潜力，并在非营利性社区内进行进一步的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来评估的。