Michael Dubose

October 12, 2014

S. W 4710 Journal
When nonprofit organizations are forced to compete with human service corporations for
funding, what are the likely implications for the delivery of social welfare services? Answers
should note the tendency for human service corporations to skim off the most profitable social
services and the clientele that is most easy to serve leaving the nonprofit sector with lower
revenues to serve the more needy.
The delivery of services is substandard for those who cannot afford to pay for better
services. Non-profit agencies cannot complete with big corporations that can out spend them and
offer better incentives to patients and providers.
[Paul Starr states:
A large-scale shift of public services to private providers would contribute to further isolating the
least advantaged, since private firms have strong incentives to skim off the best clients and most
profitable services. The results would often be a residual, poorer public sector providing services
of last resort] (Karger & Stoezs, 2014).
In the end the services of the poor will diminish and these poor individuals will receive
inadequate treatment with little funding and poorly trained staff. With little funding there will not
be funds available to contract well trained staff to provide services.


Bibliography
Karger, H. J., & Stoesz, D. (2014). American social welfare policy: a pluralist approach
(Seventh ed.). Upper Saddle River: Pearson.