Government Grants, Donors, and Nonprofit Performance

Indiana Government Officials’ Opinions on Nonprofit-Government Relationships

In this briefing, we explore the extent to which local government officials (LGOs) in Indiana support a collaborative relationship between local government and nonprofits as opposed to one where government controls nonprofits. We also examine possible explanations for why LGOs may support collaboration, including whether their personal involvement with nonprofits plays a role and how important ...

Government–nonprofit Partnership: a Defining Framework

Partnership has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to privatization and government–nonprofit relations generally. While in principle it offers many advantages, there is no consensus on what it means and its practice varies. Following a review of partnership literature, the article refines the partnership concept, developing two definitional dimensions: mutuality and organization identi...

Does Organization Ownership Matter? Structure and Performance in For-profit, Nonprofit and Local Government Nursing Homes

We compare the structure and performance of for-profit (FP), nonprofit (NP) and local government (LG) organizations. These organizations differ in their ownership structure, objectives and agency relations. We conjecture that, compared to NP and LG, FP firms (a) delegate less decision-making power to employees, (b) provide more incentives and fewer fringe benefits, (c) monitor less, and (d) rel...

Data Mining in Nonprofit Organizations, Government Agencies, and Other Institutions

Data mining involves searching through databases for potentially useful information, such as knowledge rules, patterns, regularities, and other trends hidden in the data. Today, data mining is more widely used than ever before, not only by businesses who seek profits but also by nonprofit organizations, government agencies, private groups and other institutions in the public sector. In this pap...

International Perspectives on Strengthening Government-Nonprofit Relations: Are Compacts