The restructuring of intergovernmental service responsibilities combines with the restructuring of local jurisdictions to create a landscape in which the role of nonprofits in local policy is being reinvented. The impact of the reorganization of local social services on community nonprofit sector organizations can be effectively explored through a case study approach to reveal how fundamental roles and relationships are responding to local and extralocal forces of societal change. Research on the recently amalgamated municipality of Kingston, Ontario, highlights the particular strategies nonprofits and local governments are following in response to extralocal forces of institutional reorganization and program rationalization. Applying a deductive approach to understanding the issues and forces at work, the studys exploration of the trends affecting nonprofit services reveals challenges to the sector and its services are indeed being experienced by local agencies. Overall, the thesis finds that the capacityof nonprofits to provide community social services is potentially being eroded despite the fact that there is an increasing dependence o