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11/23/2020 Am e riC o rp s VISTA Sponsor Me e ting No ve mb e r 18, 2020 1 1 Age nda We lc o me a nd I ntro duc tio ns VI ST A Dire c to r Re ma rks VI ST A Upda te s Na tio na l Se rvic e Pro g ra ms, Co mmunity We

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Am e riC o rp s VISTA

No ve mb e r 18, 2020

Sponsor Me e ting

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  • We lc o me a nd I

ntro duc tio ns

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ST A Dire c to r Re ma rks

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ST A Upda te s

  • Na tio na l Se rvic e Pro g ra ms, Co mmunity We ll-Be ing , Vo lunte e rs,

a nd Do na tio ns: A Re vie w o f T wo Studie s

  • Gue st spe a ke r: Dr. Pa me la Pa xto n
  • Q&A
  • We b ina r E

va lua tio n

  • Clo sing Re ma rks

Age nda

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T e c h Che c k

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T he re c o rding a nd slide s will b e po ste d o n the VI ST A Ca mpus in the ne xt we e k.

Welcome!

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VIST A Dire c tor Update s

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  • Ame r

iCor ps VIST A F Y2021 Budge t

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  • 1. Curre ntly, Ame riCo rps do e s no t ha ve a full ye a r b udg e t. We a re o pe ra ting unde r a

Co ntinuing Re so lutio n until De c e mb e r 11, 2020.

  • 2. Due to e c o no mic stre ss, so me spo nso rs a re una b le to suppo rt Co st Sha re me mb e rs.
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he VI ST A L iving Allo wa nc e wa s sig nific a ntly inc re a se d fo r F Y2021.

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  • he lp spo nso rs, VI

ST A inc re a se d funds fo r Suppo rt Gra nts.

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ST A me mb e rs a re c ho o sing the e nd o f ye a r stipe nd inste a d o f the e duc a tio n a wa rd. T he e nd o f ye a r stipe nd is funde d fro m VI ST A’ s b udg e t; the e duc a tio n a wa rd ha s a diffe re nt funding stre a m.

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  • Dr. Pame la Paxton

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  • Dr. Pa xto n is the

L inda K . Ge o rg e a nd Jo hn Wilso n Pro fe sso r o f So c io lo g y a t T he Unive rsity o f T e xa s a t Austin.

National Service Programs, Community Well-Being, Volunteers, and Donations A Review of Two Studies

Pamela Paxton, Kristopher Velasco, Andrew Messamore, Robert Ressler

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The Issue: What We Know and Don’t Know

  • Do national service programs have an impact?
  • AmeriCorps/VISTA members help provide services
  • AmeriCorps/VISTA members help themselves over the life course as a result of

their service Study 1: Background

  • But do national service programs also affect the community?
  • Our research: Do national service programs improve community well-being?

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

  • How do we define community? Community = County
  • National Service: Presence of AmeriCorps programs
  • Overall / AmeriCorps State / AmeriCorps National /AmeriCorps VISTA /

AmeriCorps “Other” (Promise Fellows, Tribal, etc.)

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  • Third, how do we define community well-being?
  • Subjective well-being
  • Increasing interest
  • Example: Healthy People 2020, Gross Domestic Happiness
  • Typically measured via surveys

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

  • How do we measure subjective well-being?
  • Data source: Twitter
  • 1) Engagement; 2) Disengagement; 3) Positive Relations; 4) Negative Relations;

5) Positive Emotions; 6) Negative Emotions

  • Disengagement Words/Total Words Tweeted

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

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Using Twitter to Measure Subjective Well-Being

Dictionary Top Words Engagement Learn Alive Interesting Interested Awake Learning Disengagement Meh Lazy Tired Blah Bored Sleepy "Listening to the game on my phone because I can't seem to get myself out of bed to go watch. meh ," July 9, 2010 Example Tweets* " I'm properly learning Chinese from a babys program called Ni Hao, Kai Lan! Ha," - November 9, 2009 "A weekend full of flying, crashing, chatting with flier friends (some super folks) rain winds storm…total excitement…felt so alive, " September 15, 2010 "I'm so bored …literally nothing to do in this town," August 14, 2010

  • How do we connect these?
  • Linear regression
  • Shows association
  • Allows for broad overview
  • Results? Significant effects!

AmeriCorps Subjective Well-Being

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

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11/23/2020 8 What could be wrong about these results?

  • 1. Counties with AmeriCorps programs may be different than those that

do not receive such programs

  • 2. Counties with greater levels of subjective well-being can better attract

AmeriCorps

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

Addressing these concerns:

  • 1. Control variables: Income, racial/ethnic diversity, education level,

rurality, age, state fixed effects.

  • 2. Add in a second wave of data: Wave 1: 2006-2009; Wave 2: 2010-2013
  • Consider reverse effects

AmeriCorps1 AmeriCorps2

Subjective Well-Being1 Subjective Well-Being2

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

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Results

Engagement Disengagement Overall Programs +

  • AmeriCorps

National

  • AmeriCorps

State

  • AmeriCorps

VISTA +

  • AmeriCorps

Other

  • Note: small effect sizes

Takeaways

  • AmeriCorps programs help improve community subjective well-being
  • Largely through the buffering against negative aspects
  • VISTA has positive effect on engagement
  • The reverse effects suggests that when considering applications,

AmeriCorps should pay particular attention to “quiet” or atypical communities

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National Service Programs, Community Well-Being, Volunteers, and Donations A Review of Two Studies

Pamela Paxton, Kristopher Velasco, Andrew Messamore, Robert Ressler

The Issue: What We Know and Don’t Know

  • Do national service programs have an impact?
  • AmeriCorps/VISTA members help provide services
  • AmeriCorps/VISTA members help themselves over the life course as a result of

their service

  • National service programs also affect community subjective well-being

Study 2: Background

  • But do national service programs also affect the nonprofits themselves?
  • Our research: Does VISTA help nonprofits get more donations and

volunteers?

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  • (1) IRS Forms 990: More than 100,000 nonprofits from 2010-present
  • (2) VISTA data from AmeriCorps: 92,000 service terms at 2,685 nonprofits

from 2003-2019

  • How do we connect these?

Research Design: New Data

VISTA Volunteering / Donations

  • 1. Is VISTA presence related to greater volunteering and donations two

years after participation in the program?

  • 2. Do nonprofits that have VISTA service members have higher levels of

volunteering and donations in general over time?

Questions

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Data: VISTA Interventions

  • Data from CNCS VISTA placements
  • VISTA Present
  • Indicator for whether or not an organization received VISTA service members
  • VISTA Days (logged)
  • Continuous measure for the number of days of VISTA service received

What could go wrong?

  • 1. Financially successful nonprofits may be more likely to apply for

VISTA

  • 2. Nonprofits that have more volunteers might apply for VISTA in order

to help manage those programs

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

VISTA Volunteering / Donations

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  • Matching
  • Match organizations that received VISTA between 2010 and 2014 to very

similar organizations that never participated in the program

  • Look at donations and volunteers two years later
  • Cross-Sectional Time Series with Two-Way Fixed Effects of VISTA

receiving organizations

  • 2010-2016

Methods

Results *All controls in models

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Results *All controls in models

  • VISTA is associated with greater volunteering in later years
  • The lack of an effect on donations? We do not track whether

VISTA members worked on fundraising programs

Takeaways

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Engagement Disengagement Learning Meh Interesting Tired Alive Bored Alert Blah Involved Sleepy Creative Exhausted

Six Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being

  • Today, we focus on two: Engagement and disengagement

Research Design: How can we answer the question?

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Positive Emotions Great Cool Happy Amazing Awesome Glad Negative Emotions Pissed Terrible Sad Horrible Mad Sorry Negative Relations Jealous Hate Blame Evil Alone Rude "Just ate an amazing salad at the Aroma Café! Mmmmm Sooo Good!!" November 12, 2009 "I am so happy right now. My dearest friends just came back from Africa with their new son!! He is so adorable! God is so good! :)," November 12 2009 "really hate some men sometimes or maybe I just pick the crap ones lol," August 29, 2009 "Dealing with an astoundling rude and unhelpful Sprint Store employee," August 29, 2009 "Didn't get to go to halloween world today… pissed ," October 12, 2009 "Good job making me feel horrible , like i'm worth nothing ):," July 14, 2010

  • The U.S. government relies heavily on nonprofit organizations to do anti-

poverty work

  • Nonprofits provide civic infrastructure (Lang and Hornburg 1998)
  • The federal government supports by providing tax-emptions, grants,

contracts, etc.

  • They also use national service programs to provide human resource

support:

  • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

Introduction

Anti-Poverty Nonprofits and the U.S. Government

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Threats to Inference

  • We theorize that the presence of VISTA service members should build

capacity at nonprofits, leading to more volunteers and donations later.

  • However, confounding factors:
  • Financially successful nonprofits may be more likely to apply for VISTA
  • Nonprofits with more government relationships may have more VISTA

members and more donations (“crowding-in,” de Wit and Bekkers 2017)

  • Nonprofits that have more volunteers might apply for VISTA in order to help

manage those programs

  • Matching as a solution

Question

  • Data from IRS nonprofit reporting forms: Form 990 only
  • 2010 - 2016
  • Donations (logged)
  • Membership dues, contributions from fundraisers, non-cash contributions, other

contributions

  • Volunteers (logged)

Data: Outcomes

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Methods

  • Coarsened Exact Matching
  • Uses “binning” of continuous variables and levels of categorical variables to create

bandwidth for exact matches

  • Observations are included if they can be exactly matched to another organization within

a specific bin of all variables (there must be a VISTA receiving and non-VISTA receiving

  • rganization)
  • All organizations that do not appear in a matched bin are dropped
  • Match on: Volunteers and donations in year of VISTA initiation, as well as end-of-year

net assets, total number of employees, government grants, program service revenue, field

  • f service, length of mission statement reported in the Form 990, and start year
  • 1,196 single-site nonprofits, of which 80 are organizations that received incident VISTA

service members between 2010 and 2014

Data and Methods

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11/23/2020 19 What questions do you have?

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Ne xt VIST A Sponsor Me e ting

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Wednesday, January 13, 2021 3‐4:00 p.m. ET

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Me e ting E va lua tion

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Ple a se ta ke a fe w minute s to pro vide fe e db a c k o n to da y’ s me e ting : https:/ / www.surve ymo nke y.c o m/ r/ Spo nCa llNo v18

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