Paynter Sharon, Berner Marueen
J Health Hum Serv Adm. 2014 Summer;37(1):111-45.
The U.S. social safety net is formed by governmental and nonprofit organizations, which are trying to respond to record levels of need. This is especially true for local level organizations, such as food pantries. The organizational capacity literature has not covered front-line, local, mostly volunteer and low resource organizations in the same depth as larger ones. This analysis is a consideration of whether grassroots nonprofit organizations have the ability to be a strong component of the social safety net. Based on the literature on organizational capacity, a model is developed to examine how service delivery at the local level is affected by organizational capacity. Surprisingly, we find few of the characteristics previously identified as important are statistically significant in this study. Even when so, the material effect is negligible. Current organizational capacity research may apply to larger nonprofits, but not to the tens of thousands of small community nonprofits, a significant limitation to the research to date.
美国的社会安全网是由政府和非营利组织构成的，这些组织正试图应对创纪录的需求水平。对于地方层面的组织，如食品救济站来说尤其如此。组织能力文献对一线的、地方的、大多由志愿者组成且资源匮乏的组织的覆盖深度不及大型组织。本分析探讨基层非营利组织是否有能力成为社会安全网的重要组成部分。基于组织能力方面的文献，构建了一个模型来研究地方层面的服务提供如何受到组织能力的影响。令人惊讶的是，我们发现先前被认为重要的几个特征在本研究中并无统计学意义。即便有统计学意义，其实际影响也微乎其微。当前的组织能力研究可能适用于大型非营利组织，但不适用于数以万计的小型社区非营利组织，这是迄今为止该研究的一个重大局限。
