| Title | Sustaining Resilience: Modeling Nonprofit Collaboration in Recovery |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 75174 |
| Authors | Hutton, NS |
| Title | Sustaining Resilience: Modeling Nonprofit Collaboration in Recovery |
| Year | 2018 |
| Published | Professional Geographer, 70, 4 |
| Abstract | In New Zealand, where nonprofit and government partnerships have been formally developing since the 1990s, pathways for nonprofits to improve outcomes for affected communities were open when a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in rural Canterbury on 4 September 2010. As more than 13,000 aftershocks followed, including a 6.3 magnitude event on 22 February 2011 that caused fatalities and widespread structural damage in the city of Christchurch, significant action was organized in the nonprofit sector to revitalize the city. New nonprofit initiatives emerged in the central business district to address social concerns and foster engagement across the sector. This case study, undertaken three to four years after the most severe earthquakes, compared experiences from thirty-six local nonprofit organizations regarding collaboration within the nonprofit sector. Results showed that integrating nonprofit commitments to and perceptions of demands for social services into representative collective efforts supported sustainable organizational resilience into midterm recovery. Overamalgamation and prolonged restructuring, however, limited some collective efforts. Longitudinal analysis enabled development of a scalable connective structure for sustaining network resilience into long-term recovery, including collective action and collaborative issue assessment groups. Proactive implementation of similar partnerships might facilitate sustainable resilience in other urban multihazard settings. |
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