Interviews

Types of Interviews

Our team investigated the perceptions and experiences of organizations that crossed the faith-secular divide in the nonprofit space. Those were: 

1. Secular foundations that fund faith-based grantees
2. Faith-based grantees that receive funds from secular foundations
3. Faith-based foundations that fund secular grantees, and
4. Secular grantees that receive funds from faith-based foundations

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Interview Profiles

• Diversity in perspectives: Organizations declined because they did not feel their crossing of the secular-religious divide in the non-profit space was notable.
• Diversity in structure: Organizations declined to participate because their structure, containing donor advised funds, meant that the crossing of the divide was done by their donors through them, rather than at their discretion.
• Diversity in identity: Organizations did not feel the identity we ascribed to them matched the identity they held. This was especially true for nonprofits coming out of and serving ethno-religious communities.
• Diversity in views on identity: Organizations did not feel they crossed the religious-secular divide because their definition of where the line between "religious" and "secular" (and thus whether an organization was on the same side as them), was different than ours.