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The Effects of Operational, Long Term Funding on Charities 

Impact of operational funding

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Justification of research project

This proposal is a collaboration of the United Way of Greater Toronto, PhiLab and the research team of the SSHRC Insight Grant on Financing Charities (Susan Phillips, PI) with the aim of studying the effects of sustained operational funding on human service charities over a fifteen-year period.

This project examines the effects of sustained operational funding on human service nonprofits over a fifteen-year period relative to comparable organizations that lacked such support as a component of their grants.

Summary creation date : November 2022
Project start :  Summer 2019
Project end :  Spring 2023

Supervisor(s)

  • Susan Phillips
    Carleton University

Researchers

  • Nathan Grasse
    Carleton University
  • Jesse Lecy
    Arizona State University
  • Julia Carboni
    Syracuse University

Students

  • Christopher Dougherty
    Carleton University

Presentations

Susan D. Phillips, Nathan Grasse, Julia Carboni, Iryna Khovrenkov, Jesse Lecy and Christopher Dougherty. 2021. Sustainability at its Core? The Effects of Long Term Operational Funding on Canadian Charities. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (virtual), July.

Susan D. Phillips, Nathan Grasse, Julia Carboni, Iryna Khovrenkov, Jesse Lecy and Christopher Dougherty. 2019. The Hard Core: Testing the Effects of long term operational funding on nonprofits. paper presented at the annual Conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), San Diego, November.