Melissa Middleton Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4399083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Middleton Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa Middleton |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 781 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Designing and Implementing Cross‐Sector Collaborations
Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross‐sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’ important theoretical frameworks from the last decade, along with key empirical results. Research indicates how complicated and challenging collaboration can be, even though it may be n…
The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations
People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society—business, nonprofits and philanthropies, the media, the community, and government—must collaborate to deal effectively and humanely with the challenges. This article focuses on cross‐sector collaboration that is required to remedy complex public problems. Based on an extensive review o…
Organizational Characteristics and Funding Environments
This study examines a population of United Way–affiliated nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts (1) to test hypotheses generated by previous research on relationships between government funding and specific nonprofit organizational characteristics, (2) to compare differences in organizational characteristics between nonprofits receiving higher percentages of revenues from the United Way and from government sources, and (3) to explore associati…
Competing Contexts
Using a historical case study, this article presents an analysis of the evolution of a nonprofit organization and its governance structure as it was transformed from a grassroots and advocacy agency into a multimillion dollar contractor with the state. The case illustrates how boardfunctions, composition, and board management relations significandy changed in response to an environment increasingly organized around government's contracting out fo…
Why Don't They Do What We Want? An Exploration of Organizational Responses to Institutional Pressures in Community Health Centers
Throughout the last two decades, the nonprofit sector has emerged as a major provider of basic health and human services and as a prime implementor of certain public policies (Kramer, 1981; Saidel, 1991; Salamon, 1987; Smith and Lipsky, 1993). At the same time, resource suppliers to nonprofit organizations, such as government agencies at local, state, and federal level, have been under pressure to demand that non-profits reduce costs and increase…
The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations
People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society—business, nonprofits and philanthropies, the media, the community, and government—must collaborate to deal effectively and humanely with the challenges. This article focuses on cross‐sector collaboration that is required to remedy complex public problems. Based on an extensive review o…
Designing and Implementing Cross‐Sector Collaborations
Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross‐sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’ important theoretical frameworks from the last decade, along with key empirical results. Research indicates how complicated and challenging collaboration can be, even though it may be n…
Organizational Characteristics and Funding Environments
This study examines a population of United Way–affiliated nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts (1) to test hypotheses generated by previous research on relationships between government funding and specific nonprofit organizational characteristics, (2) to compare differences in organizational characteristics between nonprofits receiving higher percentages of revenues from the United Way and from government sources, and (3) to explore associati…
Why Don't They Do What We Want? An Exploration of Organizational Responses to Institutional Pressures in Community Health Centers
Throughout the last two decades, the nonprofit sector has emerged as a major provider of basic health and human services and as a prime implementor of certain public policies (Kramer, 1981; Saidel, 1991; Salamon, 1987; Smith and Lipsky, 1993). At the same time, resource suppliers to nonprofit organizations, such as government agencies at local, state, and federal level, have been under pressure to demand that non-profits reduce costs and increase…
Competing Contexts
Using a historical case study, this article presents an analysis of the evolution of a nonprofit organization and its governance structure as it was transformed from a grassroots and advocacy agency into a multimillion dollar contractor with the state. The case illustrates how boardfunctions, composition, and board management relations significandy changed in response to an environment increasingly organized around government's contracting out fo…
Why Don't They Do What We Want? An Exploration of Organizational Responses to Institutional Pressures in Community Health Centers
Throughout the last two decades, the nonprofit sector has emerged as a major provider of basic health and human services and as a prime implementor of certain public policies (Kramer, 1981; Saidel, 1991; Salamon, 1987; Smith and Lipsky, 1993). At the same time, resource suppliers to nonprofit organizations, such as government agencies at local, state, and federal level, have been under pressure to demand that non-profits reduce costs and increase…
Competing Contexts
Using a historical case study, this article presents an analysis of the evolution of a nonprofit organization and its governance structure as it was transformed from a grassroots and advocacy agency into a multimillion dollar contractor with the state. The case illustrates how boardfunctions, composition, and board management relations significandy changed in response to an environment increasingly organized around government's contracting out fo…
Organizational Characteristics and Funding Environments
This study examines a population of United Way–affiliated nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts (1) to test hypotheses generated by previous research on relationships between government funding and specific nonprofit organizational characteristics, (2) to compare differences in organizational characteristics between nonprofits receiving higher percentages of revenues from the United Way and from government sources, and (3) to explore associati…
The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations
People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society—business, nonprofits and philanthropies, the media, the community, and government—must collaborate to deal effectively and humanely with the challenges. This article focuses on cross‐sector collaboration that is required to remedy complex public problems. Based on an extensive review o…
Designing and Implementing Cross‐Sector Collaborations
Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross‐sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’ important theoretical frameworks from the last decade, along with key empirical results. Research indicates how complicated and challenging collaboration can be, even though it may be n…
Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Economics (2 works)