Community engagement and sport? Building capacity to increase opportunities for community-based sport and physical activity

Rosso, Edoardo; McGrath, Richard

doi:10.1080/11745398.2017.1317604

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“…In the sport literature, this has included studying how planning (Thomas, Hodge & Smith, 2009) and monitoring and evaluation (Harris, 2018) can be developed to address deficiencies. To understand how capacity is built, frameworks have been used to explore the determinants of successful capacity building outcomes (Casey, Payne & Eime, 2009bRosso & McGrath, 2017). Casey et al, (2012) found that effective capacity building was linked to an organization's readiness to adapt to new situation, which was also affected by the availability of their financial resources.…”

Section: Building Capacity In Non-profit Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobilizing capacity to achieve the mainstreaming of disability sport

Kitchin¹,

Peile²,

Lowther³

2019

Managing Sport and Leisure

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Mobilizing capacity to achieve the mainstreaming of disability sportRationale: Mainstreaming is the policy of integrating the responsibility for disability sport provision into nondisabled sports organizations. While a contemporary organizational practice, we know little about how this process works.Purpose: We explore how sports organizations mobilized organizational capacity to implement mainstreaming.Method: Multiple case analyses was constructed on the experiences of three non-profit, provincial Northern Irish sporting organizations through documents and interviews. Findings:In order to mainstream disability sport financial, human, and network resources were combined and leveraged. Specifically, funds underpinned a commitment from staff, who drew upon their networks to attract and retain volunteers, educate the workforce, and develop more networks essential for programme creation. In each case however, insufficient planning limited the type and diversity of inclusive provision, and threatened sustainability.Practical Implications: Strategies need to be led by a community of practice drawn from the mixed economy of providers that support the development of disabled people through sport, not just sport organisations themselves. Research Contribution:This study provides new insights into how capacity is mobilized to mainstream disability sport. It highlights that appropriate policy support and planning mechanisms need to be in place before provision is enacted to ensure more inclusive provision from the outset.

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Section: Building Capacity In Non-profit Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobilizing capacity to achieve the mainstreaming of disability sport

Kitchin¹,

Peile²,

Lowther³

2019

Managing Sport and Leisure

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“…To successfully navigate challenges related to partnerships, SDP organizations have been encouraged to build relationships with potential partners over the long term, involve the partner in program design, and develop consistent operating norms and procedures (Collison, Darnell, Giulianotti, & Howe, 2016; Svensson & Hambrick, 2016; Welty Peachey, Cohen, Shin, & Fusaro, 2018). Additional research has stressed the importance of capacity building strategies to establish partnerships and optimize success (Rosso & McGrath, 2017; Svensson, Andersson, & Faulk, 2018; Svensson, Hancock, & Hums, 2017). SDP scholarship has also been pointing toward social entrepreneurship as an important skill set to help navigate diverse constraints, including forming and developing partnerships (Bjärsholm, 2017; Cohen & Welty Peachey, 2015; Hayhurst, 2014).…”

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Constraints and Strategies to Scaling Up in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations: Evidence From the Field

Peachey

Cohen

Shin

2019

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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The purpose of this study was to explore and examine the constraints faced by managers as they attempt to scale up their sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations, and to identify the strategies they are employing to mitigate these constraints. Previous research has not examined constraints to scaling up in the SDP nonprofit space. Findings revealed three major themes related to challenges within four types of scaling up (quantitative, functional, political, organizational); skepticism about sport as a development tool, funding challenges leading to an entrepreneurial mind-set, and challenges associated with a general lack of business acumen among key leaders. Within each of these three themes, strategies for addressing these constraints are illuminated. These constraints and strategies are positioned within the broader nonprofit context, and theoretical and practical implications for scaling up SDP organizations are also explicated.

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“…Such a development has also been observed in Scandinavia (Agergaard, Michelsen la Cour, & Treumer Gregersen, 2015) and in Sweden (Ekholm, 2018). Researchers have highlighted sports-based interventions, performed on the basis of expected social benefits, as sites of public-private partnerships involving for instance municipal agencies (Hoekman, Breedveld, & Kraaykamp, 2017), sport federations and local sport associations (Stenling & Fahlén, 2016), social entrepreneurs (Peterson & Schenker, 2017), market-based corporations as sponsors (Stinson & Pritchard, 2013), non-governmental organisations (Sherry, Schulenkorf, & Chalip, 2015), community groups (Rosso & McGrath, 2017) and charity organisations (Bunds, 2017), as well as parents and youth (Ekholm, 2018;Ekholm & Dahlstedt, 2017). Practitioners and providers of such interventions have been noted to be motivated by both a love of sport and the desire to make a difference in society (Peachey, Musser, Shin, & Cohen, 2017) motivations not uncommonly underpinned by neo-colonial notions of aid and support and an evangelistic faith in the power of sport (e.g.…”

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Rationalities of goodwill: on the promotion of philanthropy through sports-based interventions in Sweden

Ekholm

Dahlstedt

2018

Managing Sport and Leisure

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Organised in public-private partnerships, sports-based interventions for social inclusion are often seen as sites of strategies involving sport associations, social entrepreneurs, volunteers and sponsors in the provision of welfare. Here, we spotlight two midnight football practices acted out in two mid-sized Swedish cities promoting social inclusion, examining, from a governmentality perspective, how supportive community actors conceptualise their charitable contributions enabling opportunities for underprivileged youth to participate in sports. Analysis outlines how actors articulate their particular background, experiences and social networks as resources to provide support, stressing that provision needs to make a difference and support the less fortunate in the community. The provision imbues a political potential, as a means of promoting social change, guided by certain notions of the good society and of the good citizen. Involvement provides a site for realising particular visions of social change, while animating the contributions provided as non-political acts of goodwill.

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Community engagement and sport? Building capacity to increase opportunities for community-based sport and physical activity

Cited by 20 publications

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Mobilizing capacity to achieve the mainstreaming of disability sport

Mobilizing capacity to achieve the mainstreaming of disability sport

Constraints and Strategies to Scaling Up in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations: Evidence From the Field

Rationalities of goodwill: on the promotion of philanthropy through sports-based interventions in Sweden

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