Ohio State U.: John Glenn College of Public Affairs
In the summer of 2020, a series of highly publicized racial events led organizations to show solidarity with the political and social climate on social media platforms like Twitter. This analysis leverages institutional logics to examine how organizational and local logics shape community foundations responses to these events, particularly the murder of George Floyd. I ask: What are the effects of organizational and local logics in shaping responses from community foundations to racialized events? By analyzing community and organizational-level data, including tweets from community foundation Twitter accounts, I conduct a logistic regression to examine how these logics direct the attention of community foundations by tweeting in solidarity. This study contributes to work in institutional theory and the study of logics in community foundations.
