Government and philanthropic funding for the nonprofit social sector routinely fail to cover the full cost of providing services.
While workers within the sector comprise 9% of the workforce in the U.S., 22% of those workers are living below or just above the poverty line.
The financial constraints facing social sector nonprofits impede their ability to apply their expertise to solve for root causes.
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.