socw 410 6b
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The Future of the Voluntary Sector
• Commercialization– Particularly important for nonprofit agencies
desiring to enhance their incomes– Unfair competition issue
The Future of the Voluntary Sector
Faith-Based Social Services– Conservative think tanks have sought an
alternative to federal social programs– Captured the imagination of international
development advocates
The Future of the Voluntary Sector
• Social Entrepreneurship- Proposes social capital as a vehicle
for revitalization- Pursues innovations through capital
and technology- Uses capitalism and business
principles as a means of measuring effectiveness
Social entrepreneurship is the attempt to draw upon business techniques to find solutions to social problems. This concept may be applied to a variety of organizations with different sizes, aims, and beliefs.
Issues Facing the Voluntary Sector
– Issues Facing the Voluntary Sector– Frivolity– Politicization– Property tax exemptions– Salaries
Group Discussion
• Choose a social issue as a group.– First consider how you would create a nonprofit to address
the issue. • Would your organization provide direct service or social advocacy?• Who would you recruit to be on your board? • Where would you solicit resources?
- Second consider how you would apply a business ethic to the same social issue.
• How does this change what your organization provides?• Who would you recruit to be a partner?• How would you solicit resources differently?
Privatization Issues
• Commercialization• Preferential Selection• Cost-Effectiveness• Standardization• Oligopolization
– The control of a market by few providers • As organizations seek to reduce competition by
buying their competitors
The Challenge of Privatization
• For many health and human service professionals: – Privatization is contrary to social welfare
• Privatization reinforces a tendency in market economies to evolve: – Dual structures of benefits, services, and
opportunities
Unions and the Private Sector
• Unions of health and welfare professionals are one response to privatization
• Collective bargaining• Privatization and government cuts in
funding make the issue ever more urgent
Welfare Capitalism
• Benefit packages for employees• Corporate sponsorship of social welfare
initiatives activities• Commonweal
Corporate Social Responsibility
• The corporation is being attacked and criticized on various fronts
• Corporate social responsibility• Corporate practices have also been
applied directly to social problems
Corporate Influence on Social Welfare Policy
• AEI and the Heritage Foundation• Corporate influence in social welfare is
dynamic• Health care organizations unleashed a
legion of lobbyists on lawmakers– In anticipation of the Obama administration’s
health reform initiative
The Future of Corporate Involvement in Social Welfare
• “Decency Principles” proposed by Nancy Amidei– Equitable wages– Employee rights– Housing– Environmental responsibility
Human Service Corporations
• Continued demand for human services– Drawn the corporate sector directly into social
welfare in the United States
• Public policy decisions – Encouraged proprietary firms to provide
health and human services
Consolidation and Growth in New Human Service Markets
• Human service corporations have become prominent, if not dominant
• Nursing Homes• 2003 Medicare Reforms• Hospital Management
Consolidation and Growth in New Human Service Markets
• Health Maintenance Organizations– Was slow to attract the interest of the
corporate sector
• Child Care• Home Health Care• Corrections• Public Welfare
Conclusion
• Health and human service professionals – Slow to adopt the corporate sector as a
setting for practice
• The corporate sector – Can offers more opportunities for program
innovation than possible under other auspices
Midterm Exam Quiz
• Slides on Compass 2g to review
• Tuesday March 3, 2014
• Compass 2g
• Available all day
• Timed (should give yourself 1h15m)
• Office Hours Thursday or email
Extra Credit: 5 points for attending all day event
and submitting 3 page paper1 additional point for attending the pre-advocacy day event
Illinois NASW Advocacy Day Tuesday, April 14th in Springfield, IL
• The day will encompass a half day of educational seminars on lobbying in Illinois followed by advocating at the Capitol.
• The cost of attending the event is $13 if you register prior to February 28th. After February 28th, the cost goes up to $18.
You need to register individually, online at: https://naswil.wufoo.com/forms/advocacy-day-041415/
• The School of Social Work will be arranging for transportation for all students to Springfield and back on Advocacy Day. The event begins in Springfield at 8:15am and will wrap up at 3:30pm. Please plan to be at the School of Social Work to leave for Springfield at 6:15am. The bus will be leaving promptly at 6:30am, so please keep in mind if you are late, you will need to arrange for your own transportation to Springfield.
• Once you register, please also send an email to ksharmon@illinois.edu to let me know you are registered so I can keep a head count of how many people are attending.
• More information about Advocacy Day can be found at http://www.naswil.org/advocacy/advocacy-day/.
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