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Welfare reform and the future of nonprofit organizations
Author(s) -
Reisch Michael,
Sommerfeld David
Publication year - 2003
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.19
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , nonprofit sector , metropolitan area , public relations , social responsibility , social welfare , adversarial system , public administration , public sector , work (physics) , business , private sector , social work , welfare reform , welfare , economic growth , economics , political science , law , medicine , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , pathology , gene , engineering
This article discusses implications of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act(PRWORA) for nonprofit social service organizations. We emphasize their role in the contemporary socialsafety net in relation to the public sector. Based on a study of ninety organizations operating in the Detroitmetropolitan area, we adopted the supplementary, complementary, and adversarial framework from Young(1999) to assess the complex and evolving relationship between the nonprofit and public sectors in thepost‐PRWORA era. The findings indicate a clear presence of all three perspectives; however, thecontinued shifting of responsibility for social services to private, nonprofit organizations suggests a growingdominance of the supplementary role. This raises concerns regarding future nonprofit capacity and other potentialcosts of nonprofit sector service provision.