Building Hope in the City

Terri Lynne Johnson

COM 733

Dr. Kim Neuendorf

Background

•From 1999 to 2003 operated as an outreach arm of the congregation

•Became a separate 501c3 organization in 2003

•10 part-time and 2 full-time employees and over 800 volunteers.

• It is in the process of expanding into several other cities including Cincinnati, Ohio; Akron, Ohio; Washington D.C., Fort Wayne, Indiana; Des Moines, Iowa; and Chicago, Illinois.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

RationaleRationale Importance of the nonprofit sector Importance of the nonprofit sector

give time worth more than 5.5 million full-time employees and generate services worth more than 150 billion annually

Decline of Volunteerism in American SocietyDecline of Volunteerism in American Societydeclined by as much as 26.3 %

The success of The success of Building Hope in the CityBuilding Hope in the City

Methods: Previous Study

Line-by-line coding entered into Atlas ti- initially yielded over 700 different codes

I merged similar codes (ie. connecting with old friends and reconnecting)

Axial Coding put my fractured data back together (lunching, reconnecting, telling friends merged into networking)

Theoretical Coding (networking became part of a larger category…connecting

Findings

Organic Beginnings

Connecting

Developing Strategies

•Strong Leadership•All-Encompassing•Clear Mission•Multi-faceted

•Building Bridges between volunteers and with the organization•Plugging in Volunteers•Linking Ministries & Organizations

•Expanding•Equipping & Training•Evaluating & Creating Systems

lLiterature Review

• Organic Organizations•Hub-like network•Charismatic Leadership•Innovation

• Volunteer Management•Screening•Training•Development

Literature Review (continued)

• Social Capital•Networks•Connecting•Bridging, bonding, and linking

Methods• Created dictionary in Yoshikoder using words from axial coding extracted in previous study

•Expanded the dictionary using a thesaurus to generate synonyms (average words 27 per cat)

pLiterature Review (present study)

•Measurements of Social Capital•Trust•Neighborhood•Bonding•Bridging•Linking•Diversity•Safety

Methods• Created text documents from website, online newsletters, interview transcripts, email communications and board minutes and loaded them into Yoshikoder

ResultsSum of Squares

df Mean Square

F Sig.

Prop. Org. Beg Between Groups Com. Type Within Groups Total

20.8723.3244.19

44044

5.22 .58

8.95 .000

Prop. Soc. Cap. Between Groups Com. Type Within Groups Total

22.4634.3656.83

44044

5.61 .85

6.53 .000

Prop. Stra. Dev Between Groups Com. Type Within Groups Total

4.0241.3645.39

44044

1.001.03

.97 .433

ANOVA Table

ResultsCom-type Proportion

OrganicBeginnings

ProportionSocial capital

ProportionStrategicDevelopment

Emails Mean N St. Deviation

.50 12 .45

1.81 12 .70

1.31 12 .63

Interviews Mean N St. Deviation

.71 5 .35

2.00 5 .43

1.64 51.12

Website Mean N St. Deviation

2.29 10 1.26

3.73 101.38

1.97 101.06

Board Min. Mean N St. Deviation

.52 3 .61

2.27 3 .37

2.39 3 .41

Newsletters Mean N St. Deviation

1.4 15.63

2.65 15 .88

1.76 15 1.24

Total Mean N St. Deviation

1.22451.00

2.57 451.14

1.72 451.02

Findings and Future Research

• Factor Analysis: To see if words of Social Capital, Organic Beginnings, and Strategic Development go together.

Cluster Analysis to see what clusters together

• Huge correlation matrix: I lost count of significant correlations

•Interesting Finding to Explore: Only two significant negative correlations: Organic Beginnings: Deci* and Process*