Conceptualizing and Measuring the Promotion of Nonprofit Organizations’ Evidence Use by U.S. Social Service Funding Programs

Autor: Christopher S. Horne, John K. Brock, J. Kenzie Freeman, Holly S. Odell
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, Vol 7, Iss 2 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2381-3717
DOI: 10.20899/jpna.7.2.240-263
Popis: Previous research on U.S. federal promotion of evidence-based programming has focused on evidence-based program registries and concludes their usefulness is undermined by prioritizing internal validity over external validity. This research explores how federal funding programs are actually promoting funded nonprofit organizations’ evidence use instead of what we might infer from registries alone. An inductively developed conceptual framework is applied to describe all 53 fiscal year (FY) 2019 social service funding programs that include nonprofit organizations among the eligible applicants, finding they promote multiple types of evidence use, with generally low coerciveness, and with applicants frequently co-determining what counts as evidence. These findings point to promotion of evidence use that balances evidence-driven prescriptiveness and enabling nonprofits’ innovation.
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