Funding and financial management are critical issues for the not-for-profit sector. Funding is limited, competitively sought, and differences in funders' and organisations' expectations and needs can cause dysfunction. Sport is an important segment of the not-for-profit sector in New Zealand...

Many amateur (third sector) sports clubs face financial vulnerability, threatening their ongoing operations. Resource dependency theory argues that clubs should eschew financial vulnerability through diversifying their revenue, increasing funder legitimacy, and having a proactive and open board....

Outside of an earlier set of research questions, it was amateur football club focus group data which revealed previously unidentified research questions of key interest to participants: how do amateur sports organisations weather a crisis for survival? What are the roles of leadership which...