From charity to 'not-for-profit': Changes in the role and structure of voluntary social service agencies

Abstract

This chapter discusses findings from a study undertaken in 2001-02 on not-for-profit social service organisations in the regional city of Hamilton, a city of 166,000 people, in the context of changes in New Zealand welfare governance from 1984 to 1999 and inTampa, Florida, a city of just over 300,000 people, following the US welfare reforms of the Clinton administration.