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United Way (unite + way)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting42%

Selected Abstracts

Measuring outcomes of United Way,funded programs: Expectations and reality

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 119 2008
Michael Hendricks
In 1996, United Way of America (UWA) developed and began disseminating the most widely used approach to program outcome measurement in the nonprofit sector. Today an estimated 450 local United Ways encourage approximately 19,000 local agencies they fund to measure outcomes. The authors first describe and then assess the strengths and limitations of the distinguishing features of the UWA approach, efforts to disseminate the approach, implementation by local United Ways, and actual outcome measurement by local agencies. The chapter ends with a description of United Way's relatively new emphasis on community impact and how that initiative relates to program outcome measurement. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

The Effects of United Way Membership on Employee Pay in Nonprofit Organizations

NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP, Issue 1 2000
Steve Werner
This research investigates the relationship between United Way membership and the compensation level of employees in nonprofit organizations. This study is based on questionnaires completed by 1,811 employees from sixty-nine nonprofit agencies in a large metropolitan area. Managerial capitalism, agency theory, and United Way funding and governance roles were used to develop the hypotheses. We found that employees of organizations belonging to the United Way receive pay premiums, suggesting that the United Way member agencies are higher-quality agencies that pay their employees higher wages. [source]

Organizational Characteristics and Funding Environments: A Study of a Population of United Way,Affiliated Nonprofits

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 3 2001
Melissa Middleton Stone
This study examines a population of United Way,affiliated nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts (1) to test hypotheses generated by previous research on relationships between government funding and specific nonprofit organizational characteristics, (2) to compare differences in organizational characteristics between nonprofits receiving higher percentages of revenues from the United Way and from government sources, and (3) to explore associations between government funding and United Way and underexamined characteristics, including use of commercial income and racial diversity of organizational membership. The study supports previous research on the relationship between government funding and nonprofit characteristics, with one notable exception,less administrative complexity was associated with higher percentages of government funding. The study also finds differences in organizational characteristics between nonprofits with higher proportions of government funding and those with higher percentages of United Way funding, including organization size, number of board members, administrative complexity, use of volunteers, and the racial diversity of boards, staff, and volunteers. [source]

Measuring outcomes of United Way,funded programs: Expectations and reality

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 119 2008
Michael Hendricks
In 1996, United Way of America (UWA) developed and began disseminating the most widely used approach to program outcome measurement in the nonprofit sector. Today an estimated 450 local United Ways encourage approximately 19,000 local agencies they fund to measure outcomes. The authors first describe and then assess the strengths and limitations of the distinguishing features of the UWA approach, efforts to disseminate the approach, implementation by local United Ways, and actual outcome measurement by local agencies. The chapter ends with a description of United Way's relatively new emphasis on community impact and how that initiative relates to program outcome measurement. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]