Nonprofit human services provision in the u.s.

Nonprofit human service agencies are critical components of the social safety net assisting low-income Americans. Community-based nonprofit service organizations also fulfill important civic functions through through policy advocacy and public education.  This line of research explores the rising importance of nonprofit human service organizations within the safety net, the complex and unstable mix of funds those organization draw upon to deliver services, and how nonprofit capacity varies widely from local place to local place.

Book:  Allard, Scott W. 2009. Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State. New Haven: Yale University Press. 

Allard, Scott W. and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2023. “Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 9(2): 134–60.

Allard, Scott. W. and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2021. “Place, Poverty, & Safety Net Provision in the U.S.” The Journal of Social Security Research. 6(2): 148-68.

Roth, Benjamin J. and Scott W. Allard. 2016. “(Re)Defining Access to Latino Immigrant-Serving Organizations: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC.” Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research 7(4): 729-753.

Allard, Scott W., Maria Wathen, and Sandra Danziger. 2015. “Bundling Public and Private Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession.” Social Science Quarterly, 96(5):1348-62.

Allard, Scott W. and Steven Rathgeb Smith. 2014. “Medicaid and the Funding of Social Service Organizations.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 39(6): 1135-72.

 Allard, Scott W. 2014. “State Dollars, Nonstate Provision: The Institutional Consequences of Local Nonprofit Welfare Provision in the United States.” in The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare Provision in the Global South, Melani Cammett and Lauren Morris MacLean (eds.),Cornell University Press.

Allard, Scott W. 2010. “Nonprofit Helping Hands for the Working Poor: The New Realities of Today's Safety Net.” in Old Assumptions, New Realities, Robert D. Plotnick, Marcia K. Meyers, Jennifer Romich, and Stephen Rathgeb Smith (eds.), New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Allard, Scott. W. 2009. “Mismatches and Unmet Needs: Access to Social Services in Urban and Rural America.” in Welfare Reform and its Long-Term Consequence for America's Poor, James P. Ziliak (ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

Allard, Scott W., Daniel Rosen, and Richard Tolman. 2003. “Access to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Among Women Receiving Welfare in Detroit.” Urban Affairs Review, 38(6): 787-807.