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Individual Engagement with Nonprofits:
Explaining Participation in Association Meetings or Events
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg.
Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of ARNOVA. Montreal, Canada, November 14-16, 2002.
Abstract
Drawing
on theories of social capital and citizen engagement I use data collected
in a telephone survey of 526 Indiana residents (May 2001) to examine the
extent and nature of personal engagement with nonprofit organizations
with particular attention to one form of engagement: participation in
meetings or events. I first document the ways in which individuals are
engaged with nonprofits through worship, attending association meetings,
volunteering, or employment. I then explore four sets of factors that
are expected to account for variations in the level and form of engagement:
family status, socio-economic status, community attachment, and religious
involvement. Finally, I examine the extent to which these factors account
for attendance at association activities (other than religious services)
and how these patterns vary by the type of association involved. I find
that family status, socio-economic status, and community attachment -
but not religious involvement - contribute to explaining overall participation
in nonprofit associations. However, the combination of variables which
help predict overall participation do not necessarily help explain participation
in different types of associations.
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