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The Formula Funding Controversy at the National Endowment for the Arts

• Schuster, J. Mark

Abstract

This article explores how nonprofit organizations respond to pro¬posed changes in the relationship between the government and the nonprofit sector using a case study of the 'formula funding" controversy at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The article shows how powerful notions of who should get to decide permeate and continually transform the funding debate, making public interest reforms of the process extremely difficult. The author concludes by suggesting that the victories the arts field can claim in defending the current practice of peer panel review at the NEA will turn out to be Pyrrhic victories, ultimately weakening the claim of the nonprofit arts on public resources.

Journal

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

(1991)
vol2 no1 pages37

Categories

1. Nonprofit Service Sectors  
2. Arts  

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