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- Title
The Evolution of Trusteeship in the United States: A Roundup of Findings from Six Cities.
- Authors
Abzug, Rikki
- Abstract
The article presents a report on the evolution of trusteeship in the U.S. Over five years ago, the Lilly Endowment Inc. enabled Yale's Program on non-profit organizations to undertake the project on the changing dimensions of trusteeship, designed with the express purpose of charting and understanding the changes in the scope, scale, diversity, growth and role of nonprofit trusteeship in the U.S. over the past half-century. Project scholars charted a historical, comparative course to systematically collect data on changes in, and comparisons of, boards of trustees in six cities over sixty years. With respect to initial research questions, it is learned that on average, boards grew more demographically diverse from 1931 to 1991, suggesting that there is slow approach to the goal of broader community inclusivity in governance. On average, boards were composed of fewer trustees with affiliations to elite associations over the same time period and despite over-time trends, boards remained differentiated by city and industry cultures, which account for much of the variation in their compositions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TRUSTS &; trustees; LILLY Endowment Inc.; NONPROFIT organizations; TRUST companies; CHARITABLE uses, trusts, &; foundations
- Publication
Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 1996, Vol 7, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
1048-6682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nml.4130070110