ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY OF NONPROFIT SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES

The U.S. social safety net is formed by governmental and nonprofit organizations, which are trying to respond to record levels of need. This is especially true for local level organizations, such as food pantries. The organizational capacity literature has not covered frontline, local, mostly volunt...

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Published in:	Journal of health and human services administration Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 111 - 145
Main Authors:	PAYNTER, SHARON, BERNER, MARUEEN
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA Southern Public Administration Education Foundation Inc 01-07-2014 SAGE Publications Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc Southern Public Administration Education Foundation
Subjects:	Agricultural management Capacity Building - economics Capacity Building - methods Capacity Building - organization & administration Community structure Corporations, Nonprofit Cost Control - methods Cost Control - standards Delivery Systems Evaluation Food Food programs Food security Food Services - economics Food Services - organization & administration Food Services - statistics & numerical data Food stamps Health administration Health policy Households Humans Hunger Institutionalization Leadership Mission statements National debt Nonprofit Organizations North Carolina Nutrition Organizational effectiveness Organizational Research Organizations, Nonprofit - economics Organizations, Nonprofit - organization & administration Pantries Poverty - trends Public administration Public safety School lunches Social service Social Services Social Welfare - economics Social Welfare - trends Social Work - economics Social Work - methods Social Work - organization & administration Sociological research Studies Tax exempt organizations United States Volunteerism Volunteers Welfare North Carolina United States Organizational capacity nonprofit social safety net food assistance
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Summary:	The U.S. social safety net is formed by governmental and nonprofit organizations, which are trying to respond to record levels of need. This is especially true for local level organizations, such as food pantries. The organizational capacity literature has not covered frontline, local, mostly volunteer and low resource organizations in the same depth as larger ones. This analysis is a consideration of whether grassroots nonprofit organizations have the ability to be a strong component of the social safety net. Based on the literature on organizational capacity, a model is developed to examine how service delivery at the local level is affected by organizational capacity. Surprisingly, we find few of the characteristics previously identified as important are statistically significant in this study. Even when so, the material effect is negligible. Current organizational capacity research may apply to larger nonprofits, but not to the tens of thousands of small community nonprofits, a significant limitation to the research to date.
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ISSN:	1079-3739 2168-5509
DOI:	10.1177/107937391403700104