The Obama administration’s much-heralded “Social Innovation Fund” promises to usher in a new era of government helping social entrepreneurs go to scale. This is not a new approach; nearly a century of government involvement in the nonprofit sector has little to show for it. Will the Social Innovation Fund politicize high-performing nonprofits and hamper their ability to do their work? And will it (intentionally or not) crowd out private philanthropy?
Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute surveys the history of government investment and involvement in the nonprofit sector, and explores its implications for the latest round of attempts to “scale” effective nonprofits with government funding.
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