Understanding Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

▸ Case Study 8Show Me the Money

C. Kenneth Meyer and Stacy Gibbs

DOI: 10.4324/9781003387800-21

Gertrude Gerty Madison was astonished when she learned about the demographic statistics of Garmin County and its low per capita income, high unemployment, and high school dropout rate. She was aghast to find that Garmin had an out-county migration rate that was among the state’s highest. The county’s health indicators, such as its maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR), were similar to those of many countries in the developing world. Further, she was beginning to develop an intimate knowledge of the county’s food security issues as she traveled around and learned that there were no food stores in the county at the scale of ...