Nonprofit Nation

A New Look at the Third America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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In Nonprofit Nation, the new edition of his classic work,O'Neill takes a fresh look at the nonprofit sector and the power ithas to use its growing visibility and strength. Like the firstedition, this new book is an up-to-date, comprehensive guide tounderstanding the nonprofit sector. Identifying and examining themajor nonprofit subsectors-health care, arts, social service, andreligious organizations, for example-and detailing their particularconcerns and impact enable O'Neill to explore their influence onbusiness, government and society. The new edition also features:* Expanded sections on scope and impact* Updated and enlarged statistical information* New insights on the development of the nonprofit sector* A new section on theories of the nonprofit sector

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-06-19
Mått164 x 241 x 29 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
Upplaga2
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780787954147

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Michael O'Neill is professor of nonprofit management in the College of Professional Studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the founder and former director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management at the University of San Francisco. O'Neill is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Third America and Women and Power in the Nonprofit Sector, both from Jossey-Bass.

"An invaluable compendium: accurate, detailed, and up-to-date factsembedded in an incisive commentary on the history, impact, andprospects of the nonprofit sector. The marriage of information andunderstanding at its very best."--Paul G. Schervish, director, Social Welfare Research Instituteand professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College "Written by an outstanding scholar and leader in the nonprofitresearch field and rich with information, this masterful overviewof the voluntary, nonprofit sector in America successfully balancesaccuracy of presentation, comprehensiveness, and careful judgementswith a high degree of readability. This is one book that everyoneconcerned with American nonprofits and philanthropy should read tounderstand the nonprofit sector as a whole."--David Horton Smith, founder, Association for Research onNonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action "The most comprehensive guidebook to America's magnificent butstill largely uncharted third, nonprofit, voluntary, independentsector, written by the person most qualified to guide us."--Brian O'Connell, founding president, INDEPENDENT SECTOR "Michael O'Neill has written a Baedeker for the nonprofit world.No traveler should leave home without having read it."--Leslie Lenkowsky, professor, Center on Philanthropy, IndianaUniversity