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Birrell, Derek; Williamson, Arthur

doi:10.1023/a:1012387100327

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Structures and processes in intermediary nongovernmental organizations: Research evidence from Northern Ireland

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Williamson²

2005

Nonprofit Management Leadership

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This article reports the results of an exploratory study of the organizational characteristics, functions, and roles of intermediary nonprofit organizations selected by the European Union to deliver global grant funding in relation to its Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland. The results show that the main factor for determining organizational processes is the need to respond to conflicting pressures from two directions: upward to funding agencies and downward to community groups. This produces contradictory demands that are imported into the organizations as a set of internal tensions.The different structures and capabilities developed by the organizations to maintain unity and integrity in response to these tensions are explored and related to differences in the perceived role of the organizations.

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