The Six Cities Trusteeship Project: Trustee Biographical Dataset [1931, 1961, 1991]

Produced By: Program on Nonprofit Organizations

Funding Agency/Sponsor: The Lilly Endowment

Author:

• Abzug, Rikki  (PONPO, Yale University)
• DiMaggio, Paul  (Yale University)
• Gray, Bradford  (Yale University)
• Hall, Peter Dobkin  (Yale University)
• Useem, Michael  (University of Pennsylvania)
• Kang, Chul Hee  (University of Pennsylvania)
• Galaskiewicz, Joseph  (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
• Sosin, Elizabeth Turner  (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
• Deetz, Ann  (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
• Hammack, David  (Case Western Reserve University)
• Grabowski, Diane  (Case Western Reserve University)
• Li, Yuan  (Case Western Reserve University)
• Michney, Todd  (Case Western Reserve University)
• Swartz, David
• Buxbaum, Lisa
• Roth, Richard
• Blau, Judith  (University of North Carolina)
• Heying, Charles  (University of North Carolina)
• Feinberg, Joe  (University of North Carolina)
• Lammers, John C.  (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Beaudin, Christy L.

Contributor: Erdy, Nancy  (University Hospital, Cleveland)

Abstract (CPANDA): The Six Cities Trusteeship Project was designed to chart and understand the changes in the scope, scale, diversity, growth, and role of nonprofit trusteeship in the United States from 1931 to 1991. Data collection was divided into six discrete projects centered around each of the cities of interest: Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Each research team was responsible for identifying the fifteen organizations in their city that fit the criteria of largest 501(c)(3) secular hospital, Protestant hospital, Catholic hospital, Jewish hospital, art museum, symphony orchestra, United Way, institution of higher education, Junior League, community foundation, YMCA, YWCA, secular family services, Catholic family services, and Jewish family services. This process resulted in a board-level data set of about ninety organizations that would be directly comparable across cities; researchers then collected biographical information on the trustees of each organization during the years 1931, 1961, and 1991. The study was conducted by Yale University's Program on Non-Profit Organizations and funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Methodology (CPANDA) : The project coordinator provided research teams in each city with codesheets indicating the information to be collected. Memoranda were sent to researchers with instructions as questions arose or coding procedures changed. The research teams collected biographical information on trustees through print sources, Nexis searches, and interviews. They completed the codesheets as thoroughly as possible given the information available. There is extensive missing data in this study due to factors such as a lack of adequate records from 1931 and uncooperative organizations. The trustee biographical study collected data on 8,927 individual trustees from 289 separate boards (approximately 15 organizations' boards for each of six cities over three different time periods). The data set archived at CPANDA is missing data for 22 entire boards.

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