Nonprofit-as-supplement: Examining the Link Between Nonprofit Financial Support and Public Service Quality

Shi, Yu; Cheng, Yuan

doi:10.1007/s11266-020-00302-w

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“…The uneven distribution of support nonprofits has implications for equity and access to public land. Existing research has demonstrated the link between community wealth and nonprofit philanthropy in cities (Brecher and Wise 2008;Shi and Cheng 2021), and this analysis builds on and challenges these findings with a national, longitudinal perspective. While the descriptive statistics showed clear differences in median household income in counties with and without support nonprofits, education, partisanship, and diversity are the most important predictors of support nonprofit presence in the multivariate analysis.…”

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The geography of giving: Nonprofit philanthropy, public parks and land conservation in the United States

Willse

2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Faced with budget cutbacks, state and local governments struggle to adequately fund public parks and support land conservation. "Support nonprofits" are charitable organizations soliciting voluntary contributions of money, property, and service to protect parks and natural systems (Gazley, 2015). From 2000 to 2015, the number of support nonprofits increased by 188% and total nonprofit revenue increased by 263%, outpacing growth in public charities nationwide (NCCS). The rapid growth in support nonprofits prompts key questions about access and equity: Which communities benefit from support nonprofits? Do support nonprofits advocate for public land conservation? Using a novel national dataset pairing large nonprofits with the counties they serve, the article has three key findings: (1) counties in metropolitan areas with welleducated, liberal residents are more likely to have a support nonprofit fundraising for public land, and (2) there is no correlation between public funding for parks and support nonprofit presence. In addition to philanthropy,(3) counties with support nonprofits are more likely to pass ballot initiatives funding public land conservation. It is imperative that policy-makers and conservation advocates consider how nonprofit philanthropy maps on to-and augments-existing inequality in access to parks and natural resource conservation.

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The geography of giving: Nonprofit philanthropy, public parks and land conservation in the United States

Willse

2023

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…For operations, funding sources are much more limited (Chen & Bartle, 2022;O'Herrin & Shields, 2016). In most cases, local governments must use revenues they generate (e.g., tax receipts, utility revenue; Barrett et al, 2017;O'Herrin & Shields, 2016;Shi & Cheng, 2021), develop new fiscal arrangements (Cheng et al, 2020), or work with private partners (Shi & Cheng, 2021). Indeed, lack of funding was commonly cited as a barrier to NbS capital and operating expenditures, as parks and recreation departments often compete with essential government services (police, fire, etc.)…”

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Paying for nature‐based solutions: A review of funding and financing mechanisms for ecosystem services and their impacts on social equity

Thompson

Bunds

Larson

et al. 2023

Sustainable Development

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Funding and financing challenges remain a persistent barrier to implementing nature‐based solutions that enhance ecosystem services, facilitate adaptation to climate change, and combat environmental stressors in cities. In the absence of adequate public financial resources, private funds are often expected to fill the gap. But market‐driven, nature‐based solutions can contribute to an inequitable distribution of urban ecosystem services by focusing on net benefits provided by nature. To help foster sustainable development and ensure that nature‐based solutions reach diverse and historically marginalized populations and communities, this scoping review explores the ecosystem services provided by nature‐based solutions and the payment mechanisms that produce and maintain them, focusing on literature on the United States. Findings suggest that the net benefits provided by nature‐based solutions and the available payment mechanisms vary based on the solution utilized (e.g., urban trees, parks, community gardens). Further, the distribution of benefits from nature‐based solutions is influenced by local historical, cultural, political, economic, and environmental contexts, the voices included in decision‐making, and the payment mechanisms used. Inspired by social equity principles, we present a framework for ecosystem service provision that is sensitive to market‐driven funding, financing, and partnerships. Practitioners can use this framework to assess whether payment schemes work in tandem with place (the local context) and process (governance and planning approaches) to ameliorate or exacerbate disparities in nature‐based solutions and the benefits they provide to people.

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“…Our study raises many important questions for future research. First, what are the performance implications of government‐nonprofit partnerships in public service provision (Shi & Cheng, 2021)? How do they influence the pattern of user interactions in public parks?…”

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“…This article makes several important theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the literature. First, despite multiple theoretical models in the existing literature to understand government nonprofit funding interactions, for example, the complementary and supplementary models developed by Young (2000), we do not have a well‐developed theoretical framework to understand how nonprofits may influence public resource allocation when the partnership is outside the contracting relationship and when nonprofits help finance public service provision (Brecher & Wise, 2008; Gazley et al, 2018; Shi & Cheng, 2021). By articulating the theoretical mechanisms of exchange and substitution, this article answers this call and contributes to a more nuanced understanding of various forms of government nonprofit collaboration (Gazley & Guo, 2020).…”

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Government‐nonprofit partnerships outside the contracting relationship and public funding allocation: Evidence from New York City's park system

Cheng

2022

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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Government-nonprofit partnerships outside the contracting relationship have become an increasingly important mechanism in financing and supporting public service provision.However, the relationship between these partnerships and public funding allocation remains unclear. We articulate two competing mechanisms-the substitution mechanism and the exchange mechanism-and empirically test them with a unique geocoded dataset of public park capital projects allocation in New York City. Our findings indicate that parks units supported by government-nonprofit partnerships are likely to receive more public capital project funding, which supports the exchange mechanism. In addition, larger parks with a more populous community surrounding them get more public capital funding allocation. As governments at all levels are seeking new ways to finance and manage public service provision, many more empirical studies in other service subsectors, time periods, and geographical contexts are required to draw more general conclusions about how government-nonprofit partnerships may influence public funding allocation and how such dynamics may compromise or promote equitable public service provision.

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Nonprofit-as-supplement: Examining the Link Between Nonprofit Financial Support and Public Service Quality

Cited by 5 publications

References 54 publications

The geography of giving: Nonprofit philanthropy, public parks and land conservation in the United States

The geography of giving: Nonprofit philanthropy, public parks and land conservation in the United States

Paying for nature‐based solutions: A review of funding and financing mechanisms for ecosystem services and their impacts on social equity

Government‐nonprofit partnerships outside the contracting relationship and public funding allocation: Evidence from New York City's park system

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