TY - JOUR
T1 - The Nonprofit Capacities Instrument
AU - Shumate, Michelle
AU - Cooper, Katherine R.
AU - Pilny, Andrew
AU - Pena-y-lillo, Macarena
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Ari Sahagun for her help with data collection during the last year of the project and helping compile a portion of the literature review. This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (SES-1264417). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - Nonprofits are guided by internal efforts and external mandates to build capacity. However, scholars and grant makers are hampered by varied definitions of the concept, competing but untested models, and the lack of a reliable and valid measure. This research defines nonprofit capacity as the processes, practices, and people that the organization has at its disposal that enable it to produce, perform, or deploy resources to achieve its mission. An inductive-confirmatory two-study approach introduces and validates the Nonprofit Capacities Instrument, a 45-item measure of eight nonprofit capacities derived from existing instruments. The capacities are (1) financial management, (2) adaptive capacity, (3) strategic planning, (4) external communication, (5) board leadership, (6) operational capacity, (7) mission orientation, and (8) staff management. Intriguingly, this research demonstrates that nonprofit capacity is not a singular or second-order concept, but better described in its plural form, nonprofit capacities.
AB - Nonprofits are guided by internal efforts and external mandates to build capacity. However, scholars and grant makers are hampered by varied definitions of the concept, competing but untested models, and the lack of a reliable and valid measure. This research defines nonprofit capacity as the processes, practices, and people that the organization has at its disposal that enable it to produce, perform, or deploy resources to achieve its mission. An inductive-confirmatory two-study approach introduces and validates the Nonprofit Capacities Instrument, a 45-item measure of eight nonprofit capacities derived from existing instruments. The capacities are (1) financial management, (2) adaptive capacity, (3) strategic planning, (4) external communication, (5) board leadership, (6) operational capacity, (7) mission orientation, and (8) staff management. Intriguingly, this research demonstrates that nonprofit capacity is not a singular or second-order concept, but better described in its plural form, nonprofit capacities.
KW - instrument validation
KW - nonprofit capacity
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U2 - 10.1002/nml.21276
DO - 10.1002/nml.21276
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026368584
SN - 1048-6682
VL - 28
SP - 155
EP - 174
JO - Nonprofit Management and Leadership
JF - Nonprofit Management and Leadership
IS - 2
ER -