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Alternative federated funds: resourcing for change
Abstract
Federated fundraising is a 20th-century phenomenon that has played a critical role in providing support for private agencies in the voluntary sector. Within the past 10 years, several donor option programs, such as Alternative Funds, have emerged that warrant special attention. Donor option programs provide a choice to United Way givers to designate specific nonmember United Way agencies to which their money should be allocated. By contrast, Alternative Funds were organized as fundraising systems by nonprofit agencies working for social and economic justice that have not had access to, or were deliberately excluded, from traditional funding sources. A case study is presented of Alternative Funds in Philadelphia. The study compares and contrasts the agencies that compose the alternative funding system by examining six critical issues: (1) mission, (2) target population, (3) governance, (4) resource strategy, (5) dealing with controversy, and (6) interorganizational relations. The agencies comprised by the Alternative Federated Funds are Women's Way, Bread and Roses Community Fund, the Black United Fund of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Responsible Funding. Each of these organizations shares social and political concerns; yet is unique in its operations. Together these organizations provide Philadelphia with a potent force for meeting unmet needs and for bringing about social change. (This issue of Administration in Social Work has eight additional articles on alternative social agencies.) (Journal abstract, edited.)
Journal
(1988)
vol12
no2
pages95-108
Categories
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Fundraising
