Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations

This paper seeks to shed new light on the sustainability options, and particularly the financial sustainability options, potentially available to a particular set of social accountabilities (SAcc) organizations. Such organizations tend to operate i...

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Main Authors:	Salamon, Lester M., Geller, Stephanie, Sokolowski, S. Wojciech
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY TRANSPARENCY SOCIAL IMPACT BOND NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/117891607323470406/Navigating-the-Future-Making-Headway-on-Sustainability-for-Social-Accountability-Organizations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34904

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spelling	okr-10986-349042021-04-23T14:02:11Z Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations Salamon, Lester M. Geller, Stephanie Sokolowski, S. Wojciech SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY TRANSPARENCY SOCIAL IMPACT BOND NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT This paper seeks to shed new light on the sustainability options, and particularly the financial sustainability options, potentially available to a particular set of social accountabilities (SAcc) organizations. Such organizations tend to operate in less-developed regions of the world and often in situations in which governmental accountability structures and traditions are far from fully established. Though intended as a preliminary thought piece rather than an empirical survey of practice even among this limited array of organizations, the paper nevertheless draws on a wide variety of sources, including a substantial body of literature, numerous interviews, organizational websites, and an analysis of recent trends in nonprofit finance to suggest five concrete strategies that SAcc organizations of this type can usefully consider. The five strategies for SAcc organization financial sustainability can be discerned: (a) Building the brand; (b) selling social accountability services; (c) selling by-products of social accountability services; (d) selling government savings; and (e) securing and managing assets. 2020-12-09T18:42:40Z 2020-12-09T18:42:40Z 2014-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/117891607323470406/Navigating-the-Future-Making-Headway-on-Sustainability-for-Social-Accountability-Organizations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34904 English GPSA Working Paper;No. 2 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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topic	SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY TRANSPARENCY SOCIAL IMPACT BOND NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT
spellingShingle	SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY TRANSPARENCY SOCIAL IMPACT BOND NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT Salamon, Lester M. Geller, Stephanie Sokolowski, S. Wojciech Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations
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description	This paper seeks to shed new light on the sustainability options, and particularly the financial sustainability options, potentially available to a particular set of social accountabilities (SAcc) organizations. Such organizations tend to operate in less-developed regions of the world and often in situations in which governmental accountability structures and traditions are far from fully established. Though intended as a preliminary thought piece rather than an empirical survey of practice even among this limited array of organizations, the paper nevertheless draws on a wide variety of sources, including a substantial body of literature, numerous interviews, organizational websites, and an analysis of recent trends in nonprofit finance to suggest five concrete strategies that SAcc organizations of this type can usefully consider. The five strategies for SAcc organization financial sustainability can be discerned: (a) Building the brand; (b) selling social accountability services; (c) selling by-products of social accountability services; (d) selling government savings; and (e) securing and managing assets.
format	Working Paper
author	Salamon, Lester M. Geller, Stephanie Sokolowski, S. Wojciech
author_facet	Salamon, Lester M. Geller, Stephanie Sokolowski, S. Wojciech
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title	Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations
title_short	Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations
title_full	Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations
title_fullStr	Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations
title_full_unstemmed	Navigating the Future : Making Headway on Sustainability for Social Accountability Organizations
title_sort	navigating the future : making headway on sustainability for social accountability organizations
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/117891607323470406/Navigating-the-Future-Making-Headway-on-Sustainability-for-Social-Accountability-Organizations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34904
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