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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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.



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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.



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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


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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


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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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