Open AccessWhat Constitutes a New Nonprofit? Investigating Nonprofit Organizational Founding Dates
Author(s) -
Jamie Levine Daniel,
Фредрик Андерссон
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1920-9355
DOI - 10.29173/cjnser.2021v12n2a395
Subject(s) - conceptualization , nonprofit sector , nonprofit organization , process (computing) , event (particle physics) , sociology , public relations , management , political science , computer science , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , operating system
The question of when a new nonprofit is founded has not been pursued with sufficient precision. Specifically, a fundamental challenge facing any nonprofit researcher planning to detect, isolate, and analyze new nonprofits is that nonprofit founding is a process, not a discrete event. This study uses administrative data that includes three different founding indicators from more than 4,000 arts organizations, supplemented with survey data from 242 organizations, to illustrate some of the problems inherent in treating the founding process as one discrete event. It also elevates the voices of founders to demonstrate their conceptualization of the concept and offer insights into the multidimensionality of founding.