Penalty or Payoff? Diversity of Tactics and Resource Mobilization Among Environmental Organizations

Environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) need resources in order to mount campaigns and ensure their stability over time. What is the most effective strategy attract these resources? Building upon research on social movement resource mobilization, we examine how a diversity of income sources, tactics, issue focus affects three measures mobilization outcomes: income, staff, members. We relationships using unique panel data set ENGOs UK collected by Funders Network 2013 2016. Our analyses show that more diverse range tactics wave 1 associated with mobilizing staff members 2. However, there no significant penalty or payoff for groups engage diversification. argue diversifying benefits helping them accrue necessary human required environmental action.