Date of Award
1-1-2016
Language
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
College/School/Department
Department of Public Administration and Policy
Content Description
1 online resource (iii, 208 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Judith Saidel
Committee Members
Christine Bozlak, Erika Martin, Stephen Weinberg
Keywords
Capacity, Emergency food program, Food pantry, Nonprofit organizations, Soup kitchen, Food relief, Food banks, Charities, Organizational effectiveness, Industrial capacity
Subject Categories
Public Administration
Abstract
Scholars generally agree that organizational capacity influences a nonprofit’s sustainability and overall effectiveness. Identified challenges include defining capacity, operationalizing it and understanding how capacity affects effectiveness. This research project seeks to explore these challenges and examine the construct of capacity from the perspectives of 195 emergency food program practitioners across eleven counties in upstate New York. The qualitative study aims to understand “what” capacity is; the quantitative study aims to understand “how” capacity is operationalized and the mixed method study examines the “why this matters”, through asking how capacity influences effectiveness.
Recommended Citation
Slater, Bethany, "Capacity in grassroots nonprofit organizations : perspectives from emergency food providers" (2016). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 1725.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/1725