The Impact of Federally Imposed Stress Upon Local-Government and Nonprofit Organizations

Abstract

The Reagan administration's domestic budget cuts have imposed severe fiscal stress upon local-government and nonprofit agencies. The responses to this stress by organizations in northwest Ohio are analyzed in this study. Compared to local-government agencies, the federal fiscal changes had the greater impact upon nonprofit agencies, which searched more actively for alternative funding sources, varied internal process more dramatically, made programs more readily, and cast about for more effective management techniques.