Staying the Course: Editorial Statement on the Future Direction of Nonprofit Policy Forum

Abstract

At least in the near-term, we plan to continue to focus NPF on the major topics addressed in the journal’s first decade (see Young 2021). As identified in Box 1, these topics include: 1) various dimensions of the government/nonprofit relationship comprising but not limited to: government funding of nonprofit service delivery, government regulation of the nonprofit sector, and nonprofit advocacy activities aimed at influencing government policy; 2) issues related to blurring sector boundaries such as: hybrid organizational forms, social enterprises, and social investment; 3) transnational non-governmental organizations and crossnational NGO/nonprofit issues; and 4) developments in particular policy fields (e.g., health, human services, arts) and their effects on nonprofits. Specifically,weanticipate that the threepillars of government/nonprofit relations will remain the principal base of the journal’s content. The first pillar—government financing and nonprofit provision of services—covers: general government/nonprofit relationship issues, both cooperative and contentious; national-level approaches and