On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer - Couverture rigide

Frumkin, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674007689 ISBN 13 : 9780674007680

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This concise volume provides a road map to the evolving conceptual and policy terrain of the nonprofit sector. Drawing on prominent economic, political, and sociological explanations of nonprofit activity, Peter Frumkin focuses on four important functions that have come to define nonprofit organisations. The author clarifies the debate over the underlying rationale for the nonprofit and voluntary sector's privileged position in America by examining how nonprofits deliver needed services, promote civic engagement, express values and faith, and channel entrepreneurial impulses. He also exposes the difficult policy questions that have emerged as the boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and government sectors have blurred. Focusing on nonprofits' growing dependence on public funding, tendency toward political polarisation, often idiosyncratic missions, and increasing commercialism, Peter Frumkin argues that the long-term challenges facing nonprofit organisations will only be solved when they achieve greater balance among their four central functions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674007689
• ISBN 13: 9780674007680
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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