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Nonprofit Organizations as Inter‐regional Actors: Lessons from Southern Growth
Author(s) -
Hinnant Charles C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1995.tb00635.x
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , politics , regional development , economic growth , political science , public administration , business , economics , regional science , sociology , computer science , law , embedded system
Nonprofit organizations involved in improving a region's economic, political, and social situations must deal with a unique set of circumstances. The “collective good” aspect of regional economic development necessitates that nonprofit organizations such as the Southern Growth Policies Board include actors from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Regional actors from these three sectors occupy important positions in the Southern Growth Policies Board's organizational structure and play important roles in guiding and supporting the organization's regional development initiatives. While the actions of individual states and political actors sometime undermine the collective development of the South, the Southern Growth Policies Board serves as a nexus that facilitates a regional discourse on economic development.