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The Future of the Voluntary Agency in a Mixed Economy

School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720.

The growing reliance of voluntary nonprofit organizations on governmental funds ties their future to the fate of the welfare state. A mixed, three-sector, social service economy has blurred organizational differences and made a more rational division of responsibility unlikely. This article suggests that the traditional roles of voluntary agencies can still be reformulated to suggest a more realistic view of their distinctive areas of competence and vulnerability. To avoid goal deflection in the future, the author concludes that voluntary agencies must cope effectively with the dilemmas of entrepreneurialism and vendorism.

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 21, No. 4, 377-391 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/002188638502100404


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