Korean Journal of Social Welfare (한국사회복지학)
- Volume 50
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- Pages.209-233
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- 2002
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- 1229-5132(pISSN)
The Impact of financial Sources on Service Delivery in Non-profit Social Welfare Organizations
민간 사회복지조직의 재원(財源)이 서비스 전달에 미치는 영향
Abstract
This study is to identify the relationship in non-profit social welfare organizations(SWOs) between financial sources and service delivery. Especially the impact of the former to the latter is its main concern. For this purpose, gathered are the 1992, 1999 financial reports of those study organizations, and some qualitative data on a number of the organizations collected by the author is also used for verifying and interpreting the data. Gronbjerg's study(1992) provided an analytical tool for decomposing financial structure of human service organizations, and resource-dependency perspective was a theoretical framework for interpreting the impact of financial composition to service delivery. The findings are as follows: (1) Between 1992 and 1999, there was a noticeable change in financial composition among SWOs. Government subsidies has increased in terms of both amounts and percentages, for residential facilities 75% to 82% and for nonresidential facilities 37% to 47%. Funding from donations shows no abrupt changes, although absolute amounts were slight increasing. Fees were sharply decreasing, especially for the non-residential facilities which previously enjoyed them as valuable resources for preventing unnecessary influence from government. (2) The funding sources of SWOs and their strategies to acquire them has impact on service delivery. Although non-government fundings(donations and fees) were found to give elasticity to SWOs, various problems associated with acquiring them (i.e., changing the clientele) would prohibit SWOs from fully concentrating to those fundings. Meanwhile, government fundings are characterized as stable, and, as such, most of the SWOs prefers. Limited elasticity, red-tape, 'sacrifice of quality of service' over efficiency, etc. are referred to the problems.
본 연구는 민간 사회복지조직들의 재원과 서비스 전달의 관계를 분석한 것이다. 이들 조직의 재원현황을 1992년 1999년 결산자료를 통해 분석하고, 이를 근거로 재원의 구성 및 변화가 서비스 전달에 어떤 영향을 미치게 될 것인지를 해석한다. 재원 분석을 위한 연구의 틀은 Gronbjerg(1992)의 휴먼 서비스 조직의 재원 구성분석을 참조했으며, 재원과 서비스전달과의 관계에 대한 관점은 정치경제이론의 '자원의존' 이론을 적용했다. 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다: (1) 1992-1999년 사이에 민간 사회복지조직들의 재원 구성에 변화가 있었다. 정부보조금에 대한 의존 비중은 생활시설과 이용시설에서 공히 증가했다. 민간후원의 비중은 생활시설에서 감소했고, 이용시설에서는 증가하는 경향을 보인다. 그럼에도, 절대적인 금액 면에서는 공히 증가추세를 보이고 있다. 이용료수입은 비중과 절대금액 모든 면에서 급격한 감소추세를 나타내는데(특히 이용시설의 경우,
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