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Nonprofits and social capital: Measurement through organizational surveys
Author(s) -
Passey Andrew,
Lyons Mark
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.122
Subject(s) - social capital , beneficiary , social reproduction , sample (material) , individual capital , capital (architecture) , economic capital , public relations , business , sociology , economics , political science , human capital , economic growth , social science , finance , geography , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography
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 organizations might add to our understanding of the contribution of nonprofits to stocks of social capital.