A Cooperative Approach to Accountability: Manitoba's Family Violence Prevention Program

Can government's need for nonprofit accountability be accomplished without diminishing nonprofit organizations' ability to pursue their goals of responsiveness and flexibility? The conventional view argues that governments' accountability objectives conflict with nonprofits' obje...

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Published in:International journal of public administration 2004-04, Vol.27 (5), p.309-330
Main Authors: Brown, Laura K., Troutt, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Business government relations
Cooperatives
Family Violence
Manitoba
Nonprofit Organizations
Prevention
Social Programs
Studies
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Summary:Can government's need for nonprofit accountability be accomplished without diminishing nonprofit organizations' ability to pursue their goals of responsiveness and flexibility? The conventional view argues that governments' accountability objectives conflict with nonprofits' objectives, implying that there must be some tradeoff. This article adopts the emerging alternative view in which the two parties' objectives are jointly pursued through a cooperative process. The analysis of a provincial funding program in Manitoba, Canada, presented here, provides evidence that such an approach is not only possible but also efficient. The program analyzed rests on a sustained cooperative process in which government officials and nonprofit managers jointly define goals and establish constraints.
ISSN:0190-0692
1532-4265
DOI:10.1081/PAD-120028812