Community Based Programs Sustainability. A Multidimensional Analysis of Sustainability Factors

Sebastian Ion Ceptureanu (), Eduard Gabriel Ceptureanu, Cristian Eugen Luchian and Iuliana Luchian
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Eduard Gabriel Ceptureanu: Department of Management, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Cristian Eugen Luchian: Department of Business Administration, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Iuliana Luchian: Department of Business Administration, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Ensuring community based program sustainability is critical for the targeted communities. When such a program is no longer sustainable, its impact decreases, leading to unmet expectations, affecting the community as a whole. As such, scrutinizing sustainability factors for community based programs proves essential. This paper analyses those factors by reviewing the literature, questioning 188 individuals from community based organizations and other non-profits and providing a ranking for the most important of them. The factors were divided into 3 categories: related to program itself, related to host (implementing) organisation and related to the community where the program is operationalized. For data analysis several statistical tests were used, leading to a ranking of the most important 22 factors for community based programs sustainability.

Keywords: community based program sustainability; community based program; sustainability factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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