[lbo-talk] Political Economy of Non-Profits

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 17:45:57 PST 2006


Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> > The political economy of liberal non-profits
> > probably works like this ... :
> >
> > 1. Non-profits seek grants from wealthy liberals
> > and philanthropic
> > foundations;

WS:
> 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....

gee, I thought that Yoshie was talking about _liberal_ non-profits of a specific type, not _all_ non-profits.

-- Jim Devine

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