Publication Date
1-1-2024
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Nonprofit Policy Forum
DOI
10.1515/npf-2023-0058
Abstract
The nonprofit sector has been portrayed as resilient, describing a sector that persists despite challenges. We investigate nonprofit resiliency by examining how organizational characteristics, strategies, and community factors equipped organizations to recover following economic recessions. Utilizing a fixed effects panel regression model, our study covers a period of 29 years (1989–2018), encompassing three economic crises in the United States. The primary focus is examining the sector’s financial health and the resilience of the constituent organizations. Our findings describe a sector buoyed by the resilience of larger and older organizations, earned revenue, and contribution revenue, as well as the role of community factors in influencing the sector’s resilience. This study examines a wider timeframe and employs a more expansive sampling approach compared to previous studies on nonprofit resilience. In doing so, it contributes valuable insights to our understanding of the resilient sector.
Keywords
economic recession, nonprofit financial health, nonprofit resilience, resilient sector, revenue sources
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Political Science
Recommended Citation
Xintong Chen, Kerry Kuenzi, Lindsey Evans, and Amanda Stewart. "True Grit: Exploring Nonprofit Sector Resilience Following Economic Recessions" Nonprofit Policy Forum (2024). https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2023-0058
