A Study of the Administrative Burden Resulting From Funder Accountability and Compliance Practices.
My research on the administrative burden resulting from funder accountability and compliance practices is now available. Undertaken with the support of the Wellesley Institute, the studies findings will help nonprofit organizations and their funders improve their effectiveness and responsiveness.
Some excerpts:
“The findings are [...]
Community service organizations are at risk – of failing their mandates, failing their communities, betraying the public trust, and fading away as viable organizations.
We now have a significant body of Canadian research that documents the vulnerability of community social service organizations. New funding practices, widely adopted by governments and others in the early 1990s, have [...]
A survey of voluntary sector organizations was undertaken as part of a larger collaborative problem-solving initiative between Social Development Canada and the Voluntary Sector Forum focusing on the Code of Good Practice on Funding. The survey focused on the funding of administrative costs in federal government agreements with voluntary sector organizations.
The lack of funding to [...]
Community-based nonprofit organizations operate in a complex and complicated funding environment. This report presents a picture of the various revenue streams organizations depend on to fund their programs. It also analyzes the details of their expenditures, including the extent to which program funding covers core costs. This information is enriched with information on [...]
Metro Agencies Resource Council agencies are having significant difficulty balancing their budgets while maintaining service levels. This review was undertaken to explore factors contributing to the financial pressures, what agencies have done to mitigate these factors and what next steps need to be taken to ensure the agencies’ financial health.
Research indicates there is no single [...]
The revenues and expenditures of ten non-profit community organizations were analysed using a structured framework and common definitions. Data was collected on 155 discreetly funded programs totalling 36.5 million dollars (96% government funded). The analysis found that service programs were under-funded on average 14%. Chief areas of under funding are employee benefits, front-line supervision and [...]
There is emerging, both in anecdotal evidence and in the research literature, a growing recognition that a significant number of voluntary sector organizations in Canada are experiencing problems funding their operations and programs. A previous paper by this author, “An Overview of the Funding of Canada’s Voluntary Sector”, Voluntary Sector Initiative, September 20011 reviews the [...]
This review was undertaken to bring together the “in the field” experience of voluntary sector organizations with the literature on non-profit funding in the hope that this combined perspective could provide an overview of today’s situation and help determine the most productive and urgent priorities for future action.
The strength of this review is that it [...]
