What is it about?
Our article looks at whether human service nonprofits are spending money in communities of greatest disadvantage. We use spatial regression methods and find that disadvantaged communities receive less spending on those services that they most need such as youth development and job training.
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Why is it important?
We live in a world where nonprofits are being asked to provide more human services as opposed to government. While governments have a constitutional duty to ensuring equal access to services, there is an open question as to whether this is the same for nonprofit organizations. We feel that it is essential to document spatial inequities in our nonprofit social safety net.
Perspectives
This is one in a series of articles documenting spatial inequities in human services and the first to use a rather complex Bayesian spatial model. Our goal is to push the discussion as to how geography is crucial to delivering human services to communities most at risk.
Brent Never
University of Missouri- Kansas City
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This page is a summary of: Place Matters: The Spatial Effects of Human Service Expenditures, Nonprofit Policy Forum, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/npf-2015-0025.
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