The author reports on the strategies and structures used by family service agencies. Niche theory informed the hypothesis that size differences among these family service organizations would be associated with programmatic and financial specialties. Results indicated that the largest organizations moved out of the traditional niche for family service agencies. The organizations did not use a particular financial or program strategy to enhance financial and program structure. Rather, different strategies had differential effects upon either the program or financial structures. Most strategies had a deleterious effect upon structures.
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