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Building the Knowledge Base of Nonprofit Management:
A Searchable Database
Nonprofits and Social Capital: Measurement Through Organizational Surveys
Abstract
Nonprofit organizations are said to play important roles in the
reproduction of social capital, although research suggests that some
types of nonprofits add more to stocks of social capital than others
and that they vary in the types of social capital they reproduce. Such
findings typically come from surveys of individuals or households, as
opposed to surveys of nonprofits themselves. In this research article,
we draw on a survey of a sample of Australian nonprofit organizations
to demonstrate a method of empirically testing some of the ways that
nonprofit organizations are said to reproduce social capital and to
assess differences in any contributions by important organizational
characteristics such as industry or primary beneficiary. We aim to
show how surveys of organisations might add to our understanding of
the contribution of nonprofits to stocks of social capital.
Journal
(Summer 2006)
vol16
no4
pages481-495
Categories
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Classification and Research
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Research Methods
