Public policy professor: Government reliance on nonprofits has led to inequity
The entrance to Atlanta City Hall in Downtown Atlanta. (Jasmine Robinson/WABE)
Claire Dunning, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, researches who should provide social services to the public and examines the relationship between nonprofits and the government. She also looks at how these factors can perpetuate issues instead of creating solutions.
On Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Dunning spoke about the “nonprofit-industrial complex” and why she feels it’s an inequitable replacement of government responsibility.
“Saying and pretending that the nonprofit sector is independent really masks the existence of government funding in a way that naturalizes whose needs are meet by charity and whose needs are deserving of visible government support,” explained Dunning.
Dunning is also the author of “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State.”
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