Abstract
We are honored and grateful that the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) board entrusted us as the next editorial team of this prominent journal, bringing it to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
We thank the previous editorial team, Angela Bies, Chao Guo, and Susan Phillips, for their assistance with a smooth transition and leading the journal to the current impact factor of 3.348. The articles in this issue and through the next year reflect their thoughtful work.
We are also grateful to work with Julia Slater, our publication editor at SAGE publications, and appreciate her guidance in the transition. We also thank Joan Llaneza, our interim managing editor, for her help with the transition.
We look forward to gathering in-person again in November in Raleigh, North Carolina, to reconnect and celebrate 50 years of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ). Many thanks to the founding editor, David Horton Smith, and previous editors—Jon Van Til, Carl Milofsky, Steven Rathgeb Smith, Wolfgang H. Bielefeld, Dwight Burlingame, Femida Handy, Jeffrey Brudney, and Lucas Meijs—for laying such a strong foundation for this journal and creating this community of scholars.
We hope to continue to foster this vibrant community and conversation on nonprofits, philanthropy, voluntary action, and civil society across the globe. In addition to this and maintaining the quality of the journal, our vision is threefold: (a) to diversify methods, topics, and voices; (b) to advance theory, the field, and impact; and (c) to enhance relevance, engage practitioners, and highlight implications. To these ends, we have expanded the word limit from 8,000 to 10,000 words, we now request authors provide a data availability statement on the cover page when submitting a manuscript, and we continue the data transparency policy for experiments. In addition, we brought new voices and perspectives to the editorial board and recruited a wonderful team of Associate Editors.
Thank you, Thad Calabrese at New York University, Cassandra Chapman at the University of Queensland, Heather MacIndoe at University of Massachusetts–Boston, Dyana Mason at the University of Oregon, Lindsey McDougle at Rutgers University, and Peter Raeymaeckers at the University of Antwerp, for joining our editorial team as Associate Editors. Many thanks also to Nathan Dietz at the University of Maryland for serving as Methods Editor, Jennifer Jones at the University of Florida for serving as Book Review Editor, and Tracey Coule at Sheffield Hallam University for serving as Research to Practice Editor. We appreciate the opportunity to recruit an engaged group of scholars to our editorial team and board, listed in this issue. Thank you for joining us and for your time, service, and dedication to the journal.
The quality and prominence of NVSQ is thanks to the editorial teams, board members, authors, reviewers, and readers. Journals are a cooperative and collaborative effort and the quality of NVSQ is thanks to all of you.
The pandemic and the current issues in the world highlight the need for and the central role of the nonprofit sector, philanthropy, voluntary action, and civil society. We hope you contribute to our collective efforts of the journal, whether through contributing, reviewing, reading, circulating, or applying to practice, to advance ARNOVA’s mission “to improve civil society and human life.” Please join us as we continue to take NVSQ to the next level.