Cost Efficiency Doesn’t Sway Donors, Study Shows
Strategic Positioning and the Financing of Nonprofit Organizations: Is Efficiency Rewarded in the Contributions Marketplace?, by Peter Frumkin and Mark T. Kim, examines the question of whether donors reward nonprofit groups that demonstrate superior financial and operational efficiency. Mr.…
Foundation Support for Environmental-Justice Projects
Green of Another Color: Building Effective Partnerships Between Foundations and the Environmental Justice Movement, by Daniel R. Faber and Deborah McCarthy, presents the findings of a year-and-a-half-long study of foundation grant making to environmental-justice causes. An estimated 0.2 percent of…
Calculating the Costs to Government of Helping the Homeless
Financial Implications of Public Interventions on Behalf of a Chronically Homeless Family, by Ellen Hart-Shegos, calculates the price of government assistance for a homeless family in Minneapolis from 1991 to 1999. The study tracks the costs of child care, housing, health care, substance-abuse…
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