Government-Nonprofit Relations in Times of Recession.

International Perspectives on Strengthening Government-Nonprofit Relations: Are Compacts

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...

Self-Government in Our Times¤

The eighteenth century conception of democracy as a system of self-government was based on an assumption that rendered it unrealistic and incoherent, namely, that interests and values are su¢ciently harmonious so that each individual needs to obey only oneself while living under laws chosen by all. When faced with the reality of political parties, theorists of democracy recognized that some int...

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...