Who "Owns" AIDS Service Organizations? Governance Accountability in Non-Profit Organizations

Increased public funding for provision of social services by nonprofit organizations has inspired efforts to increase those organizations' accountability to government and the larger public. Yet, as this analysis of organizations providing services to HIV-infected individuals and AIDS sufferers...

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Published in:Polity 1996-10, Vol.29 (1), p.97-118
Main Author: Rosenthal, Donald B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Administration
Administrative responsibility
AIDS
Corporations, Nonprofit
Female homosexuality
FOR POLITICAL CULTURE SEE POL /CULTUR
Funding
Gays and lesbians
Governance
Government
Government aid
HEALTH (ALSO SICKNESS AND DISEASE)
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Male homosexuality
New York (state)
Nonprofit organizations
Organization (nonprofit)
Public finance
Public Welfare
Service organizations
Service sector
Social service
Social services
SOCIETY AS A WHOLE
United States
Volunteerism
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Summary:Increased public funding for provision of social services by nonprofit organizations has inspired efforts to increase those organizations' accountability to government and the larger public. Yet, as this analysis of organizations providing services to HIV-infected individuals and AIDS sufferers in the Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse areas shows, those efforts weaken accountability to the groups who founded the organizations or are directly served by them. This loss was not simply the consequence of accepting state money; it also stemmed from leaders' desires to put their organizations on a more professional footing compatible with the prevailing social structures and organizational cultures of the areas they served.
ISSN:0032-3497
1744-1684
DOI:10.2307/3235276