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What's need got to do with it? Barriers to use of nonprofit social services

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Kissane, Rebecca Joyce·2003·The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
DOI 10.15453/0191-5096.2898
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In recent years, legislators have called upon private nonprofit and proprietary organizations to assume a larger role in provision of public benefits to poor persons. Little research, however, has examined poor people's willingness to use nonprofit agencies in lieu of public welfare. This analysis draws data from over 2 years of fieldwork and in-depth interviews with twenty poor women in Philadelphia. I demonstrate that decisions to use nonprofits are contingent upon stigma, information, practical predicaments (e.g., agency hours), and perceived need. I explore the implications of these impediments in a post-welfare reform landscape, while focusing on how decisions to use private services differ from those to use public welfare. One cannot assume that because people have needs they will use nonprofit services to meet them.

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  • Additional support for groups such as FSM students may signal that their group has historically underperformed and thus induce threat.

    “it may signal to them that their group has historically underperformed and thus induce threat (Hall, Zhao, & Shafir, 2014;House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee, 2004;Kissane, 2003;Lens, Nugent, & Wimer, 2018;Leslie & Mayer, 2014;Sahota, Woodward, Molinari, & Pike, 2014).”

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    The Stigma section (page unavailable) reports that using nonprofit services could bring shame and a loss of self-respect, and the Discussion notes that some services target particular subgroups. The paper does not address FSM students, signals of historical academic underperformance, or the resulting threat described in the claim. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  1. Bobo, Lawrence and Ryan A. Smith. 1994. "Antipoverty Policy, Affirmative Action, and Racial Attitudes." Pp. 365-395 in Confronting Poverty, edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, Gary D. Sandefur, and Daniel H. Weinberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
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  4. Salamon, Lester M. 1987. "Partners in Public Service: The Scope and Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations." Pp. 99-117 in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, edited by Walter W. Powell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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Authors
Kissane, R. J.
Affiliations
Western Michigan University (US)
Corresponding author
Kissane, Rebecca Joyce
Venue
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publisher
Western Michigan University - DIGITAL COMMONS
Published
2003-06-01
Volume
30
Issue
2
ISSN
0191-5096 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.15453/0191-5096.2898
OpenAlex
W1599239766
Cited by
76
References
35
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (publishedVersion)
  • ScholarWorks - WMU (Western Michigan University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Social Sciences and Policies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Keywords
barriers to service use, welfare recipients, stigma, perceived need, information barriers, public welfare, low-income women, Philadelphia

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