EAGER: The Origins of Successful NGOs

这一热切的奖项为从现有已公布来源收集数据提供资金。该研究小组希望调查非营利部门的员工“衍生”组织是否类似于私营部门的衍生企业。分拆是指由一名前雇员创建的新组织或公司，他/她能够使用之前工作中的技能来建立新的公司或组织。研究团队希望确定非营利部门的分支机构是否比非员工创办的类似组织更成功。探索性研究的第一步是收集员工分支机构创始人的特征并将其制成表格。他们的母公司主要在公共部门、营利性部门还是非营利性部门？他们是否主要从事相同的活动或服务？这些答案在会员组织和服务组织之间有显著差异吗？我们将深入了解这些非政府组织是如何起源的，以及它们起源于哪里。创始工人是否拥有非凡的技能？他们是否担任过管理职位？他们是倾向于年纪更大还是更有经验？我们提出的研究的第二步是将创始工作者的起源和特征与非政府组织的成功联系起来。从公共部门剥离出来是否会促进成功，这可能是因为与一个大型或稳定的公共实体建立了互补关系？从其他非政府组织剥离出来，是否会降低成功的可能性，或许是因为利用捐赠者基础的回报越来越小？我们可以期待创始工作者的高技能水平与新的非政府组织生存的可能性更高相关，但这种联系有多强？

This EAGER award funds data collection from existing published sources. The research team hopes to investigate whether or not employee "spinoff" organizations in the nonprofit sector are similar to spinoff firms in the private sector. Spinoffs are new organizations or firms established by a former employee who is able to use skills from his/her previous job in establishing the new firm or organization. The research team wants to determine whether or not spinoffs are more successful in the non-profit sector than comparable organizations that are started by non-employees.The first step of the exploratory research is to collect and tabulate the characteristics of the founders of employee spinoffs. Were their parent firms mainly in the public, for-profit, or nonprofit sector? Were they mainly performing the same activities or services? Do these answers differ significantly between membership organizations and service organizations? We will gain insight into how these NGOs originate in addition to from where they originate. Are the founding workers exceptionally skilled? Did they occupy managerial positions? Do they tend to be older or more experienced? The second step of our proposed research is to correlate the origins and characteristics of the founding workers with NGO success. Does spinoff from the public sector promote success,possibly due to the establishment of a complementary relationship with a large or stable public entity? Does spinoff from other NGOs make success less likely, perhaps because of diminishing returns to exploitation of a donor base? We can expect higher skill levels of the founding workers to be associated with a higher probability of new NGO survival, but how strong is the connection?