Research Seed Grant | 2000-2001
Effectiveness of Nonprofit Organizations
by Nicole Marwell (Sociology)
This seed grant supports further exploration of a conceptual framework for analyzing a critical question about urban nonprofit organizations: what is their effectiveness in providing services that improve the life chances of people in low-income neighborhoods? The proposed framework laid out four key areas of research, each of which needed to be fleshed out before applying for outside funding to explore them. The four areas were:
- Who are the people who are already connected to nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs), and who are the people who are outside the CBOs' boundaries?
- How effective are urban CBOs in providing services to residents of low-income communities, in comparison to the post-war urban political machine?
- How does the urban CBO compare to the suburban municipal government as an effective service provider?
- What are the parallels and divergences between long-standing urban CBOs and emerging suburban CBOs?
See Also
- Research grant: The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources, and the Poor
- Seed grants: Making It Isn't Enough: Strategies for Intergenerational Class Transfer among Latinos received by Nicole Marwell
- ISERP Workshop Nonprofit Organizations in Economy and Society
