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What Unique Supportive Strategies Do Nonprofit Leaders Utilize to Promote Sustainability?

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Title/Author:	What Unique Supportive Strategies Do Nonprofit Leaders Utilize to Promote Sustainability?/
Author:	Edwards Harris, Mary.
Description:	1 online resource (99 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-01A.
Subject:	Social work. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379952624

What Unique Supportive Strategies Do Nonprofit Leaders Utilize to Promote Sustainability?
Edwards Harris, Mary.

What Unique Supportive Strategies Do Nonprofit Leaders Utilize to Promote Sustainability? - 1 online resource (99 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

Thesis (D.S.W.)--The University of Memphis, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have been deemed important to communities. They are designed to fill gaps in community societal requirements by supplying resources, goods, and services that other companies in public sectors and neighborhoods do not offer. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the country reportedly has 1.5 million nonprofit organizations (NPOs). There are many NPOs in the United States, but statistical projections indicate that over half will fail, with 30% failing within a few years of their creation. Researchers have shown that NPOs collapse yearly due to various factors, including a lack of money and resources. All these organizations are operating in an unsettling environment, making it critical to focus on building sustainable structures. This descriptive qualitative multi-case study explores how NPO leaders define and practice sustainability and discovers gaps between research and practice. The conceptual frameworks for this study were the Resource dependency theory and sustainable supply change management/critical success factors. Through Purposeful sampling, five leaders of nonprofit organizations were selected who met the "Extreme Case" criteria, an idea based on Seawright and Gerring (2008). The criteria included adult leaders (male or female) over 18 years old, holding primary leadership roles such as founder, president, manager, director, CEO/CFO, in operation for at least three years, has a commitment to a specific social purpose (education, health, art, religion), maintained their mission and objectives long-term, serves a unique population of people, and the organization is recognized for their community work. A semi-structured interview question guide was used to gather qualitative data, and content analysis was used to link the data to propositions. As a result, six distinct themes (True to Mission, Financial Health, Strategic Planning, Partnership, People, and Effectiveness of Services) that connected sustainable practices to the determinants of sustainability emerged, which were shown to incorporate the three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, and economics. The discoveries herein are expected to contribute to the limited existing literature on what sustainability practices govern individual nonprofit leaders to build sustainable organizations.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379952624Subjects--Topical Terms:

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What Unique Supportive Strategies Do Nonprofit Leaders Utilize to Promote Sustainability?
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