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The Capacities and Challenges of Faith-Based Human Service Organizations
Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg.
Public Administration Review 67 (1, 2007):115-126. Revised version of paper presented under somewhat different titles at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, Seattle, August 3-6, 2004, the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 14-17, 2003
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We address four policy questions in this article by comparing the management capacities and challenges of congregations, faith-based organizations, and secular organizations that provide human services. 1) What role, if any, do congregations and faith-based organizations currently play in the social service delivery system? 2) Are congregations interested in changing their role in the social service system? 3) Relative to faith-based and secular organizations, do congregations have the capacity to adapt to new roles in the social service system? 4) Relative to faith-based and secular organizations, do congregations have similar service capacities and/or management challenges as other types of social service providers? Our findings indicate that while more than half of congregations already provide some type of health or human services, they provide a narrower range of services, consider these services a lower priority, and seem to encounter more extensive management challenges than faith-based and secular organizations.Home | Citing and Terms of Use | Restricted Access
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