Exploring the Determinants of Nonprofit Coproduction of Public Service Delivery

Paarlberg, Laurie E.; Gen, Sheldon

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“…In particular, community human resources provide the skills, financial capacity, and awareness of community needs necessary for community engagement (Bekkers and Wiepking ). Also, resources available in the community drive the prevalence of nonprofit organizations and the size and health of the sector (Grønbjerg and Paarlberg ; Lecy and Van Slyke ; Paarlberg and Gen ; Saxton and Benson ).…”

Section: Community Philanthropy and Economic Structurementioning

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The Impact of Local Economic Structure on Community Philanthropy

Paarlberg

Yoshioka

2015

Public Administration Review

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This article explores how local economic structure directly and indirectly affects community philanthropy. Drawing on campaign data for local United Way (UW) affiliates at three points in time (1990, 2000, and 2010), the article tests the degree to which the relationship between economic structure and community philanthropy is mediated through local stocks of human resources and social capital. The results suggest that retail employment and industrial concentration negatively affect local UW campaigns, while nonlocal ownership positively affects UW campaign size. These measures of economic structure also indirectly influence local UW fund‐raising activities by affecting the levels of human resources and social capital. In the midst of global efforts to increase community‐based philanthropy, these findings have important policy implications for efforts to promote community solutions to social issues in changing economies.

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Section: Community Philanthropy and Economic Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Local Economic Structure on Community Philanthropy

Paarlberg

Yoshioka

2015

Public Administration Review

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“…Modelling coproductive nonprofit organizational activity requires an understanding of complex community dynamics, since it is driven by both governmental and community needs as well as community resources (see for example Paarlberg and Gen, 2009). …”

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“…The SES framework is helpful here in its ability to account for both internal capacity as well as external environmental variables such as socio-demographic differences that explain nonprofit formation and growth. For example, scholars have ascribed differences in nonprofit activity to rural/urban differences (Komp et al 2012), educational attainment (Grønbjerg & Paarlberg, 2001), income (Isham et al, 2006), and amount of social capital (Isham et al, 2006;Paarlberg & Gen, 2009). …”

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Philanthropic Support of National Parks

Yandle

Noonan

Gazley

2016

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Ostrom's Social-Ecological Systems (SES) framework has infrequently been applied to civil society research. But its focus on collective action may help explain why some national parks are more successful at attracting philanthropic resources to supplement stagnant public funding. We examine two types of charitable supporting organizations: "Friends of" Groups (FOGs), which typically emphasize fundraising, and Cooperating Associations (CAs), which typically emphasize visitor support. Across over 300 national park units, we identify their partnership patterns. Recreational parks tend to have neither type of nonprofit partner. Our findings also suggest that FOGs and CAs fill different niches. CAs are drawn to more popular parks or memorials, and FOGs are found in parks with smaller budgets or offering fewer activities. Actor characteristics play a secondary role in explaining nonprofit incidence.The holistic approach of the SES systems perspective demonstrates the importance of connecting resource systems to institutional settings and actor attributes.

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“…Unmet demands in the quality and volume of educational services for their children inspires parents to invest additionally even in a relatively strong economic environment, let alone in a down economy [Nelson, Gazley 2014]. One research into the cooperation between American schools and their nonprofit partners has shown that the intensity of such interaction is influenced by both unsatisfied preferences about educational services, on the one hand, and financial and other resources required to establish nonprofit organizations, on the other hand [Paarlberg, Gen 2009].…”

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Collective Co-Production in Russian Schools

Suslova¹

2016

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Abstract. The growing demand for quality education services together with the financial constraints faced by educational institutions produce the need for the active involvement of parents and other representatives of local communities in the educational process so as to provide schools with additional resources. As a form of such involvement, non-profit organizations (NPOs) can be established to support educational institutions. In this paper, we assess the level of collective co-production in Russian school education and look for correlations between institutional characteristics of schools and their cooperation with NPOs. The data for the research was obtained from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (through the SPARK System), websites of local departments of education, and publicly available sources of information about activities of NPOs supporting schools. We reveal considerable cross-regional differences in the development of collective co-production in school education. The process is more active in provincial towns than in megalopolises: the proportion of schools supported by specifically founded NPOs is higher in many regional centers than in the capital cities. At the same time, a lot of regions have no such NPOs at all. As it turns out, NPOs are more likely to be created to support schools with a special status (gymnasiums, lyceums and specialized schools), where the parental demand for quality education services is higher. Meanwhile, we found no correlation between autonomous status of educational institutions and their participation in collective co-production. Thus, the increased degree of independence did not induce cooperation with NPOs for the purpose of raising extra-budgetary funds in this case. Keywords: school, co-production, non-profit organization, demand for education services, autonomous educational institution, gymnasium, lyceum, specialized school. 10.17323/1814-9545-2016-4-144-162 The public sector has been interacting more and more with the private one over the last few decades. Various parties including nongovernmental organizations make their contribution in providing public services to the population. Management of such services often builds upon a long-term partnership of mutual responsibilities [Osborne 2010]. This interaction between citizens and government results in the development of co-production, i. e. engagement of con- DOI:

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Exploring the Determinants of Nonprofit Coproduction of Public Service Delivery

Cited by 71 publications

References 44 publications

The Impact of Local Economic Structure on Community Philanthropy

The Impact of Local Economic Structure on Community Philanthropy

Philanthropic Support of National Parks

Collective Co-Production in Russian Schools

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