TY - JOUR
T1 - Do Nonprofit Missions Vary by the Political Ideology of Supporting Communities? Some Preliminary Results
AU - Lecy, Jesse
AU - Ashley, Shena R.
AU - Santamarina, Francisco J.
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PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Nonprofit missions reflect the values of those that create, manage, and support them. We know that the U.S. population has undergone a “big sort” that has resulted in increased community homogeneity along racial, economic, and political lines. We do not know, however, how this process has impacted the nonprofit sector, as there is little work looking at the geographic distribution of nonprofit missions as a function of the demographics of communities in which they operate. To identify the effects of community values on the nonprofit mission, we use landslide voting districts as a proxy for political ideology and propensity score matching to pair districts with statistically equivalent demographic characteristics. Nonprofits in matched voting districts are compared to identify differences in activities, mission, and funding. Missions shape how communities allocate resources to target populations and interest groups, so observed differences in mission may help explain variation in social outcomes across communities.
AB - Nonprofit missions reflect the values of those that create, manage, and support them. We know that the U.S. population has undergone a “big sort” that has resulted in increased community homogeneity along racial, economic, and political lines. We do not know, however, how this process has impacted the nonprofit sector, as there is little work looking at the geographic distribution of nonprofit missions as a function of the demographics of communities in which they operate. To identify the effects of community values on the nonprofit mission, we use landslide voting districts as a proxy for political ideology and propensity score matching to pair districts with statistically equivalent demographic characteristics. Nonprofits in matched voting districts are compared to identify differences in activities, mission, and funding. Missions shape how communities allocate resources to target populations and interest groups, so observed differences in mission may help explain variation in social outcomes across communities.
KW - demographic sorting
KW - nonprofit mission
KW - political ideology
KW - propensity score matching
KW - public goods
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U2 - 10.1080/15309576.2018.1526092
DO - 10.1080/15309576.2018.1526092
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062885167
SN - 1530-9576
VL - 42
SP - 115
EP - 141
JO - Public Performance and Management Review
JF - Public Performance and Management Review
IS - 1
ER -