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- Title
A framework for understanding how nonprofits shape our physical environment: Identifying allies in making spaces.
- Authors
Velez, Anne‐Lise K.; McCartha, Emily B.
- Abstract
Research exists on the role of nonprofits directly shaping open spaces and preserving elements of the built environment, but the larger landscape of nonprofits that directly and indirectly shape the larger physical environment is less well understood. Although legislation exists to help protect and preserve natural spaces, nonprofits play a crucial role in carrying out work to protect and shape the natural and built components of the physical environment. Furthermore, nonprofit work that shapes public spaces is, by default, an attempt to reshape social environments and values through interventions in the physical environment. This is particularly important as the relationship between the physical environment and societal outcomes related to public health, human behavior, and sustainability is clear. Using past research by the authors, a review of related literature, and a localized case study, we refine a theoretical framework to better describe and understand the breadth of nonprofits that are shaping the physical environment. In doing so, we create a tool to help nonprofit managers identify and better engage allied stakeholders.
- Subjects
NONPROFIT organization management; PHYSICAL environment; PUBLIC spaces; OPEN spaces; PUBLIC health; BUILT environment
- Publication
Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 2019, Vol 29, Issue 3, p419
- ISSN
1048-6682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nml.21341