Abstract

This article examines whether a nonprofit’s reliance on staff and volunteers is associated with its program needs or its managerial preparedness to manage these human resources, or some combination thereof. Using the Statistics of Income (SOI) data sets provided by the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), we find that both a nonprofit’s purpose to deliver services and managerial preparedness within a nonprofit to be significantly associated with an increase in number of staff and volunteers; in addition, the association between the surge in program needs and the increase in number of staff and volunteers can be conditioned by the managerial preparedness of an organization. The findings underscore the need for nonprofit organizations and their donors, especially governments and foundations, to make deliberate efforts to ensure organizational readiness and the ability to manage and sustain the supply of human resources.

摘要

本文研究了非营利组织对员工和志愿者的依赖是否与其项目需求或管理这些人力资源的管理准备相关，或两者兼而有之。使用美国国家慈善统计中心 (NCCS) 提供的收入统计 (SOI) 数据集，我们发现非营利组织提供服务的目的和非营利组织内部的管理准备都与员工人数的增加和志愿者；此外，方案需求的激增与工作人员和志愿者人数的增加之间的联系可能取决于一个组织的管理准备情况。调查结果强调了对非营利组织及其捐助者，尤其是政府和基金会的需求，