Squeezing the Nonprofit Sector

Defining the Nonprofit Sector: India

Efficient Funding: Auditing in the Nonprofit Sector

N organizations are a critical part of society as well as a growing sector of the economy. For funders there is an increasing and pressing need to ensure that society reaps the most social benefit for their money while also developing the nonprofit sector as a whole. By routinely scrutinizing nonprofit reports in an effort to deduce whether a nonprofit organization is efficient, funders may bel...

Geographic Information Systems and the Nonprofit Sector: The Last Frontier?

This is an exploratory study examining the predictors of geographic information systems (GIS) adoption among nonprofit organizations. A variety of organization, system, and environment characteristics are measured via a survey administered to 72 managers of nonprofit organizations. Comparisons are made between GIS and website adoption by these organizations. Results indicate that nonprofit mana...

Social Capital and the Growth of the Nonprofit Sector

This paper examines the extent to which nonprofit organizational foundings are determined by various forms of social capital. Our hypothesis is that, controlling for other relevant social, political and economic factors, communities with higher levels of social capital should experience more extensive growth in their nonprofit sectors. To test our hypothesis, we create a data set of nonprofit o...

Three Essays on the Economics of the Nonprofit Sector