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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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| 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 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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