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The nonprofit sector : a research handbook

This second edition provides a multi-disciplinary survey of nonprofit organisations and their role and function in society. This book also examines the nature of philanthropic behaviours and an array of organisations, international issues, social science theories, and insights into philanthropic traditions
Print Book, English, ©2006
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©2006
xi, 659 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm
9780300109030, 0300109032
64897830
The nonprofit sector in historical perspective : traditions of philanthropy in the West / Kevin C. Robbins
A historical overview of philanthropy, voluntary associations, and nonprofit organizations in the United States, 1600-2000 / Peter Dobkin Hall
Scope and dimensions of the nonprofit sector / Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle
The nonprofit sector in comparative perspective / Helmut K. Anheier and Lester M. Salamon
Economic theories of nonprofit organizations / Richard Steinberg
Nonprofit organizations and the market / Eleanor Brown and Al Slivinski
Work in the nonprofit sector / Laura Leete
Collaboration between corporations and nonprofit organizations / Joseph Galaskiewicz and Michelle Sinclair Colman
The constitution of citizens : political theories of nonprofit organizations / Elisabeth S. Clemens
Scope and theory of government-nonprofit relations / Steven Rathgeb Smith and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
The legal framework for nonprofit organizations / Evelyn Brody
The federal tax treatment of charitable organizations / John Simon, Harvey Dale, and Laura Chisolm
Nonprofit organizations and political advocacy / J. Craig Jenkins
International nongovernmental organizations / John Boli
Foundations / Kenneth Prewitt
Nonprofit organizations and health care : some paradoxes of persistent scrutiny / Mark Schlesinger and Bradford H. Gray
Social care and the nonprofit sector in the Western developed world / Jeremy Kendall, Martin Knapp, and Julien Forder
Nonprofit organizations and the intersectoral division of labor in the arts / Paul DiMaggio
Higher education : evolving forms and emerging markets / Patricia J. Gumport and Stuart K. Snydman
Religion and the nonprofit sector / Wendy Cadge and Robert Wuthnow
Nonprofit community organizations in poor urban settings : bridging institutional gaps for youth / Sarah Deschenes, Milbrey McLaughlin, and Jennifer O'Donoghue
Nonprofit membership associations / Mary Tschirhart
Charitable giving : how much, by whom, to what, and how? / John J. havens, Mary A. O'Herlihy, and Paul G. Schervish
Why do people give? / Lise Vesterlund
Nonprofit mission : constancy, responsiveness, or deflection? / Debra C. Minkoff and Walter W. Powell
Governance : research trends, gaps, and future prospects / Francie Ostrower and Melissa M. Stone
Commercial activity, technological change, and nonprofit mission / Howard P. Tuckman and Cyril F. Chang
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