| dc.description.abstract | This study is about social investment strategies and sustainability of nonprofit
organizations in Nairobi, Kenya. The study is guided by two objectives; to establish
social investment strategies used by NPOs in Nairobi and determine the relationship
between social investment and sustainability for nonprofit organizations. The essence of
this study is to expand knowledge on social investment, where Kenyan nonprofit
organizations can tap social investment strategies for their sustainability in the
transformation of livelihood of the communities (beneficiaries) they serve. The findings
of this study will be important to the Government and policy makers towards formulating
social investment national frameworks and policies like United Kingdom or United
States, to actualize the social pillar/ third sector as arched in Kenya Vision 2030.
Potential social investors can use the resource to form a better understanding of the
Kenya social pillar to enable them make well informed investment decisions/choices. The
academicians and researchers may use the resources also as a source of reference but
more importantly, steer Kenyan universities (Including University of Nairobi) to adopt
social investment/entrepreneurship as an MBA specialization like Harvard, LSE and
Oxford Schools of business have done. The results of this study will shed light into other
areas of research that other researchers need to put focus on. This study will highlight the
role played by social investment strategies and its impact towards sustainability of NPOs
in pursuance of realization of their vision. The study research was an exploratory crosssectional
survey of nonprofit organizations (NPO) in Nairobi, Kenya. Primary data was
collected by use of structured questionnaires and interviews. Senior level management
was the research respondents given their role in strategy formulation and implementation.
The triangulation aspect of data collection was employed for data authenticity and
credibility. The data collected from the study was both quantitative and qualitative.
Descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean score, standard deviation, frequency
distribution, statistical graphics correlation and hierarchical multiple regression were used
for data analysis and presentation. The research found that most of the NPOs in Nairobi
County suffer from dependency on foreign donations. However, due to external
environmental changes such as the global meltdown, they are adopting to SI strategies
like social enterprises, volunteerism, endowment, commercial equity/enterprises and
many more with the aim to be sustainable in future. As depicted by Hierarchical Multiple
Regression (HMR) there is strong positive direct correlation/relationship exists between
SI and sustainability of NPOs in Nairobi Kenya but there are other factors influencing SI
adoptions such as social innovation, availability of financing, globalization and
internationalization and organizational structure flexibility. Leadership and governance,
networking, finance and technical capacity are some of the successful strategies towards
NPO’s SI sustainability. SI sector is still underdeveloped and understudied in Kenya.
Government, Operating intermediaries and SEs are the main SI players and they should
harmonize working relations for full-bodied SI growth and development. The main
barriers and challenges of SI growth and development is lack of an enabling policy
environment. This can only be mitigated by the government playing their role to increase
supply and demand for SI and providing an enabling environment as policy makers. | en |
