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From a policy, practice, and theoretical perspective, this article promotes the use of the nonprofit to lessen the financial burden on government in advancing the wellbeing of the general public. T...

This article connects the impairment of the public's trust in nonprofit organizations to managerial actions in five transactions that lie at the core of the relationship between the nonprofit and the public. For each core transaction it asks: What does the public trust mean? How may that trust be impaired by managerial action? What concepts in a relationship-marketing message might help restore that trust? What are the conditions or antecedents that might materially modify the results of any of these messages? This article offers important lessons to help clarify, manage, and restore the public's trust in nonprofit organizations when that trust is impaired by managerial action.

This article explores a new, universal, and theoretically inclusive approach to understanding the performance and purpose of nonprofit organizations in today’s world. This approach envisions the nonprofit organization as a social capital asset and agent in a specific relationship to the public. This relationship is depicted in a principal-agent paradigm and the performance is in the public policy process. The public policy arena is the nonprofit’s analogy of the firm’s marketplace. Nonprofits do more than fill in for market or government failures. They also regulate, facilitate, assist, and modify markets and play a significant role in every aspect of public policy, that is, from determining party platforms to the implementation of policies. In the public policy process, they have a comparative advantage as agents of citizens and firms.

A common concern of black mayors is the housing condition in their cities. While housing is a common problem of all mayors, a disproportionately high percentage of black mayors see this factor as most critical in reversing their declining cities. This paper reviews specific policies undertaken by cities with black mayors. The success of these policies is dependent upon other policies taken by surrounding jurisdictions and by state and federal governments.

Analysis of gross interstate migration by age-sex-color cohorts in the United States. Determinants of outmigration in the country; Findings of the study; Conclusions. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

The earnings of migratory farm workers are neither easily measured nor easily interpreted. This paper describes some of the common pitfalls in the measurement and interpretation of these earnings. Examples are drawn from Wayne County, New York, a chief source of migrant employment in that state.