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- Title
New American Relief and Development Organizations: Voluntarizing Global Aid.
- Authors
Schnable, Allison
- Abstract
International aid has seen a trend towards decentralization and voluntary action in the last two decades. Relief and development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) registered with the IRS ballooned from about 1,000 in 1990 to over 11,000 in 2010, and most of these are small organizations run on a voluntary basis. These NGOs are headquartered in one-third of all U.S. counties, representing every state in the United States. How can we explain the distribution and the growth of these organizations over time? I use a multilevel model with county means to show that higher per-county income, education, percent of residents born abroad, and higher numbers of religious congregations and Rotary Clubs explain between-county differences, although only education and number of congregations retain positive within-county, over-time effects. The article aims to inject a globalized perspective into theories of nonprofits and voluntarism and to demonstrate that the decentralization of aid to voluntary actors is a phenomenon that must be taken up by scholars of globalization and development.
- Subjects
NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; AMERICAN humanitarian assistance; GLOBALIZATION; GLOBAL North-South divide; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Social Problems, 2015, Vol 62, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
0037-7791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/socpro/spv005