--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> The political economy of liberal non-profits
> probably works like this
> (it probably works in the same way on the right,
> too, except that non-
> profits on the right are funded better):
>
>
> 1. Non-profits seek grants from wealthy liberals
> and philanthropic
> foundations;
It would be nice if you checked some data before voicing opinions. Private grants on average cover only about 12% of all nonprofit revenue in the US and about 7 % in Europe - the rest of it comes from sales to individuals and from government transfers and purchases of services. Most of nonprofits in the US and other developing countries concentrate in health care, and education that use few, if any volunteers, and in social services where volunteer use is a bit heavier. Most of those people do not do faxing and fundraising but working in soup kitchens, shelters, self-help groups etc. e.g. with people whom you in your other postings (on lumpen) did not want to "write off." Cannot help but notice that doing the actual social work is less of "writing off" than babbling about writing off on the internet.
Many nonprofit managers, especially in social service fields, do little or no private fundraising because it is too costly. They rely mainly on government funds. They also do use volunteers rather reluctantly because of high unreliability of this kind of labor supply.
If you are interested in looking at actual employment and revenue figures of the nonporfit industry in this and other countries, I suggest visiting our website http://www.jhu.edu/~cnp/research.html http://www.jhu.edu/listeningpost/news/
and also our paper in Monthly Labor Review http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/09/art3full.pdf if you trust government data and publications.
Wojtek
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