What is it about?
This article looks at what I call 'sick' nonprofits: those who are financially distressed. I look at the geography of where these 'sick' nonprofits are located, which tends to be communities of disadvantage.
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Why is it important?
In the United States, many of our human services are delivered by nonprofit organizations. Financially-distressed nonprofits will have difficulty in delivering services and are at serious risk for going out of business, leaving communities without the services that they need. Mapping the geography of 'sick' nonprofits is helps advance a discussion among public and private funders about where to allocate scarce resources: do we prop up distressed nonprofits or do we seek out strong ones?
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This is the first in a series of articles on the geography of human services. I am, along with great colleagues in the field, trying to push a dialogue about how funders allocate resources to communities. There's a limited amount of public and private dollars, so it is important to move money to communities that need it and organizations that can use it.
Brent Never
University of Missouri- Kansas City
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This page is a summary of: Divergent Patterns of Nonprofit Financial Distress, Nonprofit Policy Forum, January 2013, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/npf-2012-0009.
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