Abstract:Research on nonprofit advocacy in non-Western settings is still rather limited. In this article, we address this limitation by examining the advocacy practices of nonprofit charitable organizations in Singapore, a non-liberal democratic city-state in Southeast Asia with a history of colonial rule. We ask the following questions: What are the key environmental and organizational factors that influence the scope and intensity of advocacy activities of nonprofit organizations? In particular, what is the effect of… Show more
“…In doing so, it contributes to the burgeoning literature on subjects such as nonprofit advocacy networks (Acosta Voluntas 2012; Almog-Bar and Schmid 2014), nonprofit advocacy in non-Western settings (Guo and Zhang 2014), and promises and limits of advocacy work on social media platforms (Guo and Saxton 2014).…”
Nonprofits are collective endeavors that supply a bewildering range of products and services, including some of value to their immediate members only. Many also advocate policy positions on issues of direct interest to themselves, their clients and beneficiaries, and/or the broader community. There is substantial variation in their advocacy strategies, the scope of policy goals they embrace, and the types of individuals they engage in such activities. Consequently, there are also differences in whether and how nonprofit advocacy activities reduce inequalities, enhance civic participation, and promote deliberative democracy. This symposium interprets and theorizes about emerging nonprofit challenges by showcasing research of nonprofit advocacy and civic engagement scholars. Collectively, the papers demonstrate the vibrancy of the field of nonprofit civic engagement and advocacy and identify important areas for future research to capture the complexity of nonprofits as actors guided by both instrumental and normative goals, serving organizational and social missions, and reducing some types of inequalities but creating new ones.Résumé Les organisations à but non lucratif sont des entreprises communes qui offrent une variété étonnante de produits et de services, dont certains sont seulement utiles pour leurs membres proches. Beaucoup préconisent également des positions politiques sur les questions présentant un intérêt direct pour elles-mêmes, leurs clients et leurs bénéficiaires ou la société en général. On constate de fortes variations dans leurs stratégies d'action, la portée des objectifs politiques qu'elles appuient et & Kirsten Grønbjerg les personnes qu'elles engagent pour ces activités. Par conséquent, il existe égale-ment des différences qui expliquent pourquoi et comment les activités d'action des organisations à but non lucratif réduisent les inégalités, développent la participation civique et agissent en faveur de la démocratie délibérative. Ce symposium interprète et émet des hypothèses sur les nouveaux défis des organisations à but non lucratif en présentant les recherches sur les combats de ces organisations et les universitaires de l'engagement civique. Collectivement, les articles démontrent le dynamisme du domaine de l'engagement civique et du combat des organisations à but non lucratif et identifient des domaines importants pour les recherches futures afin de saisir la complexité des organisations à but non lucratif en tant qu'acteurs guidés par des buts instrumentaux et normatifs, qui servent des missions organisationnelles et sociales et réduisent certains types d'inégalités mais en créent de nouveaux.Zusammenfassung Gemeinnützige Organisationen sind kollektive Initiativen, die eine verblüffende Reihe von Produkten und Dienstleistungen anbieten, wobei einige wertvolle Produkte und Dienstleistungen nur ihren unmittelbaren Mitgliedern zur Verfügung stehen. Viele unterstützen zudem politische Standpunkte zu Themen, die für sie selbst, ihre Kunden und Nutzträger oder die breitere Gemeinschaft von di...
“…In doing so, it contributes to the burgeoning literature on subjects such as nonprofit advocacy networks (Acosta Voluntas 2012; Almog-Bar and Schmid 2014), nonprofit advocacy in non-Western settings (Guo and Zhang 2014), and promises and limits of advocacy work on social media platforms (Guo and Saxton 2014).…”
Nonprofits are collective endeavors that supply a bewildering range of products and services, including some of value to their immediate members only. Many also advocate policy positions on issues of direct interest to themselves, their clients and beneficiaries, and/or the broader community. There is substantial variation in their advocacy strategies, the scope of policy goals they embrace, and the types of individuals they engage in such activities. Consequently, there are also differences in whether and how nonprofit advocacy activities reduce inequalities, enhance civic participation, and promote deliberative democracy. This symposium interprets and theorizes about emerging nonprofit challenges by showcasing research of nonprofit advocacy and civic engagement scholars. Collectively, the papers demonstrate the vibrancy of the field of nonprofit civic engagement and advocacy and identify important areas for future research to capture the complexity of nonprofits as actors guided by both instrumental and normative goals, serving organizational and social missions, and reducing some types of inequalities but creating new ones.Résumé Les organisations à but non lucratif sont des entreprises communes qui offrent une variété étonnante de produits et de services, dont certains sont seulement utiles pour leurs membres proches. Beaucoup préconisent également des positions politiques sur les questions présentant un intérêt direct pour elles-mêmes, leurs clients et leurs bénéficiaires ou la société en général. On constate de fortes variations dans leurs stratégies d'action, la portée des objectifs politiques qu'elles appuient et & Kirsten Grønbjerg les personnes qu'elles engagent pour ces activités. Par conséquent, il existe égale-ment des différences qui expliquent pourquoi et comment les activités d'action des organisations à but non lucratif réduisent les inégalités, développent la participation civique et agissent en faveur de la démocratie délibérative. Ce symposium interprète et émet des hypothèses sur les nouveaux défis des organisations à but non lucratif en présentant les recherches sur les combats de ces organisations et les universitaires de l'engagement civique. Collectivement, les articles démontrent le dynamisme du domaine de l'engagement civique et du combat des organisations à but non lucratif et identifient des domaines importants pour les recherches futures afin de saisir la complexité des organisations à but non lucratif en tant qu'acteurs guidés par des buts instrumentaux et normatifs, qui servent des missions organisationnelles et sociales et réduisent certains types d'inégalités mais en créent de nouveaux.Zusammenfassung Gemeinnützige Organisationen sind kollektive Initiativen, die eine verblüffende Reihe von Produkten und Dienstleistungen anbieten, wobei einige wertvolle Produkte und Dienstleistungen nur ihren unmittelbaren Mitgliedern zur Verfügung stehen. Viele unterstützen zudem politische Standpunkte zu Themen, die für sie selbst, ihre Kunden und Nutzträger oder die breitere Gemeinschaft von di...
“…Foster and Meinhard () found that smaller organizations were less likely to form formal collaborative relationships with other organizations. In the field of nonprofit advocacy, evidence has also consistently shown that an organization's size is positively correlated with the scope and intensity of its advocacy activities (Child and Grønbjerg ; Guo and Zhang ; Mosley ). An organization's annual total expenditure is used to indicate the size of the organization in this study. Hypothesis 6: The likelihood of a nonprofit's involvement in public service planning and design is positively correlated with the size of the organization.…”
Section: Determinants Of Nonprofits' Involvement In the Cogovernance mentioning
This article investigates the determinants of nonprofits' involvement in cogovernance, or the planning and design of public services, using a unique data set of park-supporting nonprofit organizations in large U.S. cities. The results indicate that nonprofits are more likely to get involved in cogovernance when they are younger, larger, and operate in communities that are more resourceful and stable. In addition, the likelihood of nonprofits' involvement in cogovernance is negatively associated with the level of social capital and government capacity to provide corresponding public services. The article points to an emerging mode of government-nonprofit collaboration that goes beyond the production and delivery of public services. As public managers face extensive challenges in sustaining the desired level of public services, these findings have important policy implications for efforts to promote citizen participation and cross-sector solutions to complex social problems.
Evidence for Practice• Cogovernance is a distinct type of nonprofit support for public services. Involving citizens and nonprofits in the design and planning of public services requires a different set of organizational and community capacities compared with involving nonprofits in the delivery of public services. • As local governments face or suffer from increasing fiscal pressure, nonprofits' involvement in cogovernance may become more prevalent. Both local governments and nonprofits need to be strategic and proactive about it. • Cogovernance is not a panacea. It raises important management and governance questions for the design and reform of public service systems. Minnesota, where he teaches public and nonprofit management. His research focuses on a range of theoretical and managerial questions at the nexus of governance, government-nonprofit relationships, coproduction, and the distributional and performance implications of cross-sectoral collaboration, often with a substantive focus on urban sustainability.
“…Few researchers have examined CSOs legislative advocacy in developing countries (Abdel-Samad 2015;Guo and Zhang 2014). Those that have done so have examined the efforts of CSOs in legislative advocacy -rather than legislators' perceptions about CSOs' legislative advocacy, or the demands of legislators for CSO involvement.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, most of this research has focused on Western democracies and on the role and efforts of CSOs (Appe and Layton 2016;Guo and Zhang 2014;Najam 2000;Smith 1984). Studies of legislative advocacy (Saidel 2002;Schmid, Bar, and Nirel 2008;Mosley 2010;Child and Grønbjerg 2007) have examined CSOs' organizational capacities and legal restrictions, and the impact of those factors on CSOs' legislative advocacy efforts, mainly in developed countries.…”
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