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True Grit: Exploring Nonprofit Sector Resilience Following Economic Recessions

Organizational Sustainability / Research & Publications
Language : English
Isbn :
No of pages : 29
Publisher : De Gruyter Brill
Author Information : Xintong Chen , Kerry Kuenzi , Lindsey Evans and Amanda Stewart
Published Date : 14-08-2024

The nonprofit sector has been portrayed as resilient, describing a sector that persists despite challenges. We investigate nonprofit resiliency by examining how organizational characteristics, strategies, and community factors equipped organizations to recover following economic recessions. Utilizing a fixed effects panel regression model, our study covers a period of 29 years (1989–2018), encompassing three economic crises in the United States. The primary focus is examining the sector’s financial health and the resilience of the constituent organizations. Our findings describe a sector buoyed by the resilience of larger and older organizations, earned revenue, and contribution revenue, as well as the role of community factors in influencing the sector’s resilience. This study examines a wider timeframe and employs a more expansive sampling approach compared to previous studies on nonprofit resilience. In doing so, it contributes valuable insights to our understanding of the resilient sector.

About Author

 

Amanda Stewart, North Carolina State University, The School of Public and International Affairs, The Department of Public Administration, Raleigh, USA, E-mail: ajstewa5@ncsu.edu

Xintong Chen, San Jose State University, College of Social Science, Political Science Department, San Jose, CA, USA 

Kerry Kuenzi, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Public and Environmental Affairs, Green Bay, USA

Lindsey Evans, Virginia Commonwealth University, L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Richmond, VA, USA

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