Nonprofit organizations play a significant role in the ecosystem of support for service members during their transition to veteran status and the civilian job market. The authors describe the philanthropic environment and landscape for nonprofits that provide employment support to veterans, propose a framework for measuring the nonprofits' effectiveness, and consider how public-private partnerships might support the veteran employment mission.
Authors
Kleykamp, Meredith, Williams, Kayla M., Saba, Shaddy K., De Bruhl, Brandon F., Farmer, Carrie M., Rinderknecht, R. Gordon, Vidal Verástegui, Julia, Wenger, Jennie W.
- Division
- RAND Education and Labor RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute
- Pages
- 118
- Published in
- United States
- RAND Identifier
- RR-A1363-10
- RAND Type
- report
- Rights
- RAND Corporation
- Series
- Research Reports
- Source
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1363-10.html
Table of Contents
- The Role Effectiveness and Sustainability of Nonprofit Organizations That Provide Employment Support for Veterans 1
- About This Report 3
- RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute 3
- Funding 4
- Acknowledgments 4
- Summary 5
- Key Findings 6
- Federal Agencies 9
- Corporate and Foundation Donors 9
- Veteran-Serving Nonprofit Organizations 10
- Contents 11
- Figures and Tables 13
- Figures 13
- Tables 13
- The Role of Nonprofits in Veteran Transition 15
- Background 15
- In Brief How This Study Was Conducted 17
- Veteran Unemployment How Good or Bad Is It and for Whom 17
- Assessing the Role of Veteran-Serving Nonprofits in Employment 19
- How This Report Is Organized 20
- Views of Veteran-Serving Nonprofit Leaders 21
- Methods Interviewee Selection Interview Protocol and Data Interpretation 21
- Major Themes from Nonprofit Organization Representatives 23
- Organizations Provide Individualized Employment Services to Diverse Veteran Clients 23
- Federal Programs Are Necessary but Not Sufficient and There Is Limited Federal Funding for Nongovernment Transition Programs 24
- Financial Sustainability of Nonprofit Transition Programs 24
- Conclusion 26
- Measuring Program Effectiveness 29
- Current State of Measuring Effectiveness of Nonprofit Veteran Employment Organizations 30
- Metrics Used by Nonprofit Veteran Employment Organizations in Annual Reports 30
- Framework for Identifying and Standardizing Metrics 35
- Conclusion 37
- Veteran-Serving Nonprofit Finances 39
- Financial Data and Analytic Methods 40
- Trends in Philanthropy 41
- Funding Flows in the Veteran-Serving Nonprofit Sector 42
- Employment-Focused Veteran-Serving Nonprofits 44
- Financials of Employment-Focused Veteran-Serving Nonprofits 46
- Funding Compared with Need 46
- Conclusion 47
- Public Sentiment on Charitable Giving to Support Veterans 49
- The RAND American Life Panel Data and Methodology 50
- Charitable Giving Behaviors 51
- Attitudes Regarding Charitable Giving to Veterans 51
- Factors Affecting Charitable Giving Decisions 53
- Conclusion 54
- The Role of Public-Private Partnerships to Support Veteran Employment 59
- Evaluating the Modern Public-Private Partnership Typologies 60
- Types of Public-Private Partnerships 60
- Public-Private Partnership Challenges 61
- Challenges by Type of Public-Private Partnership 63
- Considerations for Current and Future Public-Private Partnerships to Support Veteran Employment 65
- DoLs Employment Navigator and Partnership Program 65
- VAs Proposed Veteran and Spouse Transitional Assistance Grant Program 66
- Conclusions 66
- Conclusions and Recommendations 69
- Veteran-Serving Nonprofit Revenue Appears Strong but Sustainability May Require Adaptation 71
- Recommendations 71
- Identifying High-Performing Organizations Requires Improvements in Measurement and Reporting 72
- Recommendations 72
- Public-Private Partnerships May Be an Opportunity to Enhance P3 Ecosystem Sustainability but Need to Address Partnership and Information Challenges 73
- Recommendations 73
- Limitations 74
- Conclusion 75
- Interview Participants 77
- Interview Codes 79
- Additional Interview Findings 81
- Tools for Program Management Planning and Evaluation 85
- NTEE Codes 89
- IRS Designations for Veteran-Serving Nonprofit Organizations 91
- The W30 Classification Does Not Capture the Breadth of Veteran Organizations 92
- American Life Panel Survey Supplement 95
- Evolution of VAs P3 Ecosystem 101
- The Origins of Veteran Services 101
- The First EraVeteran Social Movements and Ad Hoc Services 102
- Second EraVeteran Affairs as Federal Social Services 103
- Third Erathe Modern Veteran Services System 103
- Punctuated Equilibrium Theory 104
- Abbreviations 107
- References 109
