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Papers This section includes papers, articles, and essays written from data collected from the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study.
Paying for Not Paying for Overhead Kennard Wing, Mark Hager, Patrick Rooney, & Thomas Pollak. 2005. "Paying for Not Paying for Overhead." Foundation News and Commentary 46(3).
File: Paying for Not Paying for Overhead.htm
Back to Top Public Trust in the Public Face of Charities Mark A. Hager. 2004. "Public Trust in the Public Face of Charities." Democracy & Society, Spring: 9, 15. Georgetown University: Center for Democracy and the Third Sector.
File: Public Trust Essay.pdf
Back to Top How Important is a Nonprofit's Bottom Line? The Uses and Abuses of Financial Data Mark Hager & Janet Greenlee. 2004. "How Important is a Nonprofit�s Bottom Line? The Uses and Abuses of Financial Data." Pp 85-96 in In Search of the Nonprofit Sector, edited by P. Frumkin & J. Imber. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
File: bottom line.pdf
Back to Top Fundraising Costs Joseph J. Cordes & Patrick M. Rooney. 2004. "Fundraising Costs." Chapter 5 in Effective Economic Decision-Making by Nonprofit Organizations, edited by D. Young. Washington, DC: National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise and The Foundation Center.
Purchase the volume from The Foundation Center. An excerpt from "Fundraising Costs" is linked below.
File: Fundraising Costs excerpt.pdf
Back to Top Fundraising Yield by Method An excerpt from Giving USA 2003, published by AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy. Table indicates the amount of money raised by various fundraising methods per $1 spent.
File: Giving USA 2003 excerpt.pdf
Back to Top Current Practices in Allocation of Fundraising Expenditures Mark A. Hager. 2003. "Current Practices in Allocation of Fundraising Expenditures." New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising 41: 39-52.
File: Allocation of Fundraising Expenditures.pdf
Back to Top Is Grant Proposal Writing a Fundraising Expense? Mark A. Hager. 2003. "Is Grant Proposal Writing a Fundraising Expense?" NonProfit Quarterly 10(1): 24-28.
File: Grant Proposal Writing.pdf
Back to Top Management and General Expenses: The Other Half of Overhead Thomas H. Pollak and Patrick Rooney. 2003. "Management and General Expenses: The Other Half of Overhead." NonProfit Quarterly 10(1): 30-32.
File: Management and General Expenses.pdf
Back to Top Research about Fundraising and Administrative Costs Patrick M. Rooney, Mark A. Hager & Thomas H. Pollak. 2003. "Research about Fundraising and Administrative Costs." Giving USA Update, Issue 2. Indianapolis: AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy.
Giving USA Update is published by the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy.
Read the Association of Fundraising Professional's coverage of this Update.
Back to Top How Fundraising is Carried out in US Nonprofit Organisations Mark A. Hager, Patrick M. Rooney & Thomas H. Pollak. 2002. "How Fundraising is Carried out in US Nonprofit Organisations." International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 7(4): 311-324.
A summary of this paper appears as Brief #2.
Back to Top Toward a Theory of Organizational Fragility in the Nonprofit Sector Kennard Wing, Thomas Pollak & Patrick Rooney. 2004. "Toward a Theory of Organizational Fragility in the Nonprofit Sector." Overhead Cost Study Working Paper, presented at 2004 International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management.
A copy of the slides from this presentation is also available.
File: Toward a Theory of Organizational Fragility.pdf File: ICSTM 2004.ppt
Back to Top Understanding Management and General Expenses in Nonprofits Thomas H. Pollak, Patrick M. Rooney & Mark A. Hager. 2002. "Understanding Management and General Expenses in Nonprofits." Overhead Cost Study Working Paper, presented at 2001 ARNOVA meeting.
File: M&G.pdf
Back to Top Variations in Overhead and Fundraising Efficiency Measures Mark A. Hager, Thomas Pollak & Patrick Rooney. 2001. "Variations in Overhead and Fundraising Efficiency Measures: The Influence of Size, Age, and Subsector." Overhead Cost Study Working Paper, presented (revised title) at the 2000 AFP and 2001 ARNOVA meetings.
File: Variations.pdf
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