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AbstractCollaboration has received strong impetus in recent years. Service providers face greater expectations that they will share human and financial resources with other organizations, conduct joint planning, and devise other ways to break down organization barriers. This article analyzes collaborative practices among nonprofit organizations in rural southern Illinois and the Mississippi Delta. Environmental factors present in rural areas suggest that collaboration may be difficult to accomplish. Clients are scattered over a large geographic area, they are hard to contact because of transportation problems, community financial resources are limited, staff salaries are low, and some rural populations resist service offerings. Despite these difficulties, nonprofits in the two rural regions do engage in significant collaborations, and their leadership shows strong commitment to partnering with other organizations. Certain characteristics of the rural environment actually facilitate collaboration.

Nonprofit organizations play an important role in the development of public policy. Traditionally, this involvement is characterized as nonprofit interest group representation, aimed at influencing public policy through lobbying and mobilizing activities. This does not adequately reflect or explain the complex interactions of the state and nonprofit organizations regarding public policy formulation, nor the multiple roles that may be played. A recent study of housing policy changes exposes hidden issue networks that may operate across public and nonprofit sectors. Through their involvement in the formative phases of public policy in issue networks, nonprofit policy activists play an active role as "coproducers" of public policy.

Private, nonprofit organizations constitute a growing portion of the United States economy that has, until recently, escaped significant attention by many scholars interested in public policy. The papers in this symposium address four types of interactions between nonprofits and public policymakers—service provision and program implementation, policy advocacy, public policies toward nonprofits, and public/private partnerships. In addition, many private nonprofit organizations produce public goods that can supplement or substitute for government action.

AbstractWe examine the relationships among leadership, organizational climate, and workplace innovation in a nonprofit organization. We used established scales including the Transformational Leadership Scale, Organizational Climate Questionnaire, and Workplace Innovation Scale, and then descriptive statistics, regression models, and regression‐based path analysis to fulfill the objectives of the study. The survey was administered to full‐time and part‐time employees in a religious‐based nonprofit organization in Australia. A major finding is that leadership directly promotes workplace innovation and can foster a healthy climate, while the partial effect of organizational climate on workplace innovation, holding leadership constant, was insignificant. Certain characteristics of transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and organizational climate were predictive of workplace innovation as defined. The benefit of this study resides in its potential to look further into predictive leadership characteristics that would assist with recruitment processes in nonprofit organizations.

AbstractThis article presents an economic view of Nonprofit institutions and insight into what the discipline can offer Nonprofit practitioners. I review the theories and assumptions behind economic models, then give an overview of the major areas of economic research in the Nonprofit sector. I then discuss various factors to consider when judging the quality of economic research. The discussion then turns to a brief overview of the major statistical tool used by economists: regression analysis. The point is not to teach practitioners to become expert econometricians but to provide a framework to judge the quality of economic research. The article concludes with suggestions for economic research that may be undertaken at the firm level.