Bridging the Divide Between the Research and Practitioner Sectors: A New Collaborative Initiative Between the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Pracademics Section

• DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2018-v8-i1-8336
• Publication Date: 2017-12-29T14:39:07Z
• Authors: Catherine Vrentas; Judy Freiwirth; Sylvia Benatti; Curdina Hill; Anne Yurasek
• Keywords: Nonprofit organization; Nonprofit Sector; Practice research; CONTEST

For many years, the nonprofit research community and practitioner sector have existed in two distinct silos, which has resulted limited influence of findings on how capacity building is practiced field. At same time, often conducted isolation practice, contributes to practice based anecdote conventional wisdom. With goal bridging sectors influencing field with Alliance for Nonprofit Managementand Pracademics section Association Research Organizations Voluntary Actionorganized a joint initiative promote work together sector. As first step, organizations hosted half-day working session identify possible strategies develop new model research-to-practice collaboration, take concrete steps informing research. Subscribe JNEL