Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector

, by Flynn, Patrice; Hodgkinson, Virginia A.

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ISBN: 9780306465482 | 0306465485
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Copyright: 6/1/2001

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One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.

PART I. INTRODUCTION

(16)

Measuring the Contributions of the Nonprofit Sector

(14)

Patrice Flynn

Virginia A. Hodgkinson

The Growing Importance of Measuring Impact

(2)

Line of Inquiry

(2)

Common Terminology

(1)

Organization of the Volume

(4)

The Challenges and Opportunities of Measuring

(1)

Conclusions and Next Steps

(3)

PART II. CONCERNS OF MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION

(60)

Measuring Failure to Find Success

(12)

Clifford W. Cobb

Better Pain Receptors

(1)

Descent into the Underworld of Indicators

(7)

Conclusion: Formulating a Research Strategy

(3)

Challenges of Measuring Performance in Nonprofit Organizations

(26)

Melissa M. Stone

Susan Cutcher-Gershenfeld

Theoretical Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness

(3)

Models of Organizational Effectiveness

(2)

State of Research on Effectiveness and Performance in Nonprofit Organizations

(5)

Examples from the Field

(8)

Research Implications

(7)

Social Indicators for Assessing the Impact of the Independent, Not-for Profit Sector of Society

(18)

Kenneth C. Land

Social Indicators: Historical Developments and Current State

(6)

Social Indicators for Assessing the Nonprofit Sector

(11)

PART III. CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE

(80)

The Vicious Circle of the Constricting State as Viewed through the Failure of Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Democracies

(22)

Colin Campbell

Introduction

(2)

The Crisis of Executive Leadership in a Wider Context

(3)

Anglo-American Systems in the Age of Interventionist Governance

(3)

The Emergence of Neoliberalism

(4)

The Crisis of Executive Leadership

(1)

Why Style has Supplanted Substance and Fueled the Shift to Neoliberalism

(2)

Toward Recasting Executive Leadership

(7)

The Necessity for Studying Organizational Advocacy Comparatively

103

(20)

John D. McCarthy

Jim Castelli

Introduction

103

(2)

Toward an Operational Definition of Advocacy

105

(2)

The Difficulty of Identifying Advocacy-Oriented Nonprofit Organizations

107

(2)

Advocacy Across the Nonprofit Sector

109

(7)

Research Strategies for Studying Advocacy

116

(3)

Conclusion

119

(4)

The Distributional Impacts of Nonprofits and Philanthropy

123

(14)

Julian Wolpert

Why Be Concerned about Distributional Consequences Now?

124

(1)

Information Gaps

125

(1)

How Are Distributional Issues Examined m the Public Sector?

126

(3)

Third Sectors Criteria for Assessing Distributional Consequences

129

(1)

Typologies of Third-Sector Activities

130

(3)

Potential Indicators of the Distibutional Impacts of Nonprofits

133

(1)

Data Series That Can Improve Our Measures

134

(1)

Major Research Priorities

134

(1)

Conclusion

135

(2)

Can Public Life Be Regenerated?

137

(20)

David Mathews

Developing a Concept of Public Life

138

(3)

Guesses About Structure and Function

141

(13)

From What to How

154

(3)

PART IV. MEASURING THE IMPACT OF VARIOUS SUBSECTORS AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS

157

(90)

Women and Philanthropy: Charting a Research Agenda

161

(12)

Kathleen D. McCarthy

Introduction

161

(2)

Entering the Mainstream: Women's Studies, History and Philanthropy

163

(3)

Interdisciplinary Issues: Philanthropy and Civil Society

166

(3)

Scholarship and Practice

169

(2)

Future Research Needs

171

(2)

A Theory-of-Change Approach to Evaluating Investments in Public Education

173

(12)

James P. Connell

Adena M. Klem

What Should a ``Good'' Evaluation Do?

174

(1)

The Theory of Change Evaluation Process

175

(5)

Conclusion

180

(5)

Measuring the Impact of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations

185

(14)

Bradford H. Gray

The Nonprofit Health Care Sector

185

(2)

Some General Observations About Measures in Health Care

187

(2)

Type of Measurment

189

(5)

Evidence on Community Benefits

194

(3)

Conclusion

197

(2)

Revealing the Implicit: Searching for Measures of the Impact of the Arts

199

(18)

Margaret Jane Wyszomirski

A Multifaceted Challenge

200

(2)

Two Categories of Information

202

(11)

The Task Ahead

213

(4)

The Emerging Status of Outcome Measurement in the Nonprofit Human Service Sector

217

(14)

Martha Taylor Greenway

Current Approaches to Measuring Outcomes: Selected Findings

218

(6)

Common Indicators of Outputs and Outcomes: Potential and Limitations

224

(3)

Indicators and Data Systems Required to Measure Outcomes

227

(1)

Important Research Questions

228

(3)

The Religious Dimensions of Giving and Volunteering

231

(16)

Robert Wuthnow

A Brief Overview

232

(2)

Critical Assessment

234

(6)

Suggestions for Futher Research

240

(7)

PART V. CONCLUSIONS

247

(44)

Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector on Society Is Probably Impossible but Possibly Useful: A Sociological Perspective

249

(24)

Paul DiMaggio

Why Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector Is Probably Impossible

251

(2)

Performance Indicators in For-Profit Firms

253

(1)

Why Performance Assessment is Even Harder at the Sectoral Level

254

(3)

Multiple Goals Just Make Things Worse

257

(1)

Bad Things Happen to Good Measures

258

(6)

Why Measuring Impact Is Probably Useful

264

(5)

Conclusion

269

(4)

An Agenda for Quantitative Evaluation of the Nonprofit Sector: Need, Obstacles, and Approaches

273

(18)

Burton A. Weisbrod

Measuring Outputs and Outcomes: Issues and Cautions

275

(1)

Why Is it Important to Evaluate the Nonprofit Sector's Role?

276

(1)

Valuing Outputs and Outcomes

276

(4)

What Kinds of Evidence Are Needed for Evaluation?

280

(1)

How Does the Growth of the Nonprofit Sector Affect Other Parts of the Economy?

281

(4)

What Evidence Is There That Nonprofits Behave Differently from For-Profits and Government Organzations?

285

(2)

Policy Implications and Directions for Future Research on Measurement

287

(4)

Index

291

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