TY - JOUR
T1 - A Critical Paradox
T2 - The Politics of an Urban Community-Based Nonprofit In Expanding Educational Opportunities to Underserved Youth
AU - Sampson, Carrie
AU - Overholser, Amber
AU - Gatti Schafer, Josie
N1 - Funding Information:
WWR is a small program, initially operating in an unused classroom portable in the neighborhood elementary school where the founder once worked as a teacher. WWR served 115 students from 2012 to 2018. Nearly all WWR participants identify as non-white (73% Latinx, 18% Asian/Pacific-Islander, 6% African American, 3% white), approximately half identify as male and half as female, a little more than one-third will be the first in their families to graduate from high school, and all will be among the first in the families to earn a college degree. At the time of this study, WWR had three staff members, two who were AmeriCorps volunteers, 12 nonprofit status board members, and over 200 volunteers. WWR received much of its financial support through hundreds of individual donors, fundraising events, five small grants under $2,500 and one grant of $25,000. As we note later, the demands of fundraising and running a program with limited full-time staff almost shuddered the program in its infancy. Yet, 100% of the WWR’s 2018 high school graduates received college acceptances.
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PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - Nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) increasingly provide services that are traditionally thought to be a governmental responsibility. Through a qualitative case study, we examine the role, politics, and sustainability of a nonprofit CBO aimed at expanding opportunities for underserved youth. Our findings explain how this CBO worked to diligently meet these youth’s needs and filled a gap resulting from the state and district’s negligence within, and largely resulting from, neoliberal education reforms. Findings also point to a critical paradox that reflects the pressure for CBOs to subscribe to neoliberal practices. Study implications include the need for greater connection between public education and community partners.
AB - Nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) increasingly provide services that are traditionally thought to be a governmental responsibility. Through a qualitative case study, we examine the role, politics, and sustainability of a nonprofit CBO aimed at expanding opportunities for underserved youth. Our findings explain how this CBO worked to diligently meet these youth’s needs and filled a gap resulting from the state and district’s negligence within, and largely resulting from, neoliberal education reforms. Findings also point to a critical paradox that reflects the pressure for CBOs to subscribe to neoliberal practices. Study implications include the need for greater connection between public education and community partners.
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U2 - 10.1080/15700763.2019.1611870
DO - 10.1080/15700763.2019.1611870
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068041162
VL - 18
SP - 210
EP - 225
JO - Leadership and Policy in Schools
JF - Leadership and Policy in Schools
SN - 1570-0763
IS - 2
ER -