The Structure of Women's Nonprofit Organizations / Edition 1

by Rebecca L. Bordt

Overview

Women activists paid considerable attention to how they structured their organizations in the early years of the contemporary women's movement in the United States. As the movement has matured over time, what has happened to this preoccupation with organizational structure? What do women's nonprofit organizations look like structurally? What explains their particular form?

Rebecca Bordt explores these questions in the context of a wide variety of women's nonprofit organizations in contemporary New York City. She conducted surveys of over one hundred organizations and supplemented these data with an analysis of in-depth interviews, organizational documents and field notes of a sample of these groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253333476
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	01/22/1998
Series:	Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Series in Governance
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rebecca L. Bordt is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

(1. Introduction
2. What Do Women's Nonprofits Look Like? Conceptualizing Organizational Form
3. Rarely Bureaucracies or Collectives: A Typology of Women's Nonprofits in New York City
4. Why Do Women's Nonprofits Look the Way They Do?
5. Conclusion
Appendix: Methodology

Editorial Reviews

Bordt (sociology, U. of Notre Dame) describes the organizational structure of women's nonprofit organizations and uses organizational theory to explain why they adopt a particular form. She presents results of a study of 30 women's nonprofit organizations established in the years 1967-88 in New York City. She concludes that the majority of these groups are hybrid organizations and that as such, their structure is best predicted by a set of factors that differ from those that predict the form of bureaucracies and collectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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