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This new volume presents a systematic and comparative analysis of the current and future role of foundations in Europe and beyond. While cross-national studies of business firms, government agencies and service-providing nonprofit organizations are increasingly becoming available, little is known, in a systematic way, about the challenges foundations are facing. This book therefore includes a mapping and appraisal of foundation visions, policies and strategies, and an overall assessment of the current and future policy environment in which they operate. It goes beyond a quantitative profile of foundations in Europe, and probes deeper into their role and contributions in meeting the economic, cultural, environmental and educational needs of European societies. Developed from an international research project, this study includes twenty country studies comparing foundations in Europe, the Europe Union and the US. This valuable reference will be of interest to researchers and students of foundations, policy-making, comparative politics and international business, as well as to policy-makers and professionals.

Provides an overview of creative philanthropy along with an analysis of theory and practice. Drawing on case study examples, and incorporating sections on key questions and dilemmas, this book covers: the philanthropic deficit; finding a distinctive role to do more with less; characteristics of the creative foundation; and more

This volume addresses the need to revisit the economic theories from the last two decades that have contributed to the development of a concentrated research agenda on nonprofit organizations. Long neglected as a topic of theorizing and empirical investigation by mainstream economics in particular, these initial theories of nonprofit organizations from the late 1970s and early 1980s continue to shape theoretical and conceptual efforts. Importantly, their influence extends beyond economics and informs sociological and politics science approaches to the set of organizations and institutions located between the market firm and the state agency as well. While the theoretical map of nonprofit research has expanded beyond these early attempts and now include several other major theories such as stakeholder approaches, supply-side or entrepreneurial theories, institutional theories and comparative approaches. This work suggests that it is time to take stock and reexamine some of the basics from which these economic theories operate

'This fifth Global Civil Society Yearbook continues the intellectual shaping of an emerging global civil society. As the Global Call for Action on Poverty, G-Cap, makes its voice heard under the whiteband symbol, this analysis of current issues of migration, climate change and UN reform, with a focus on gender and social movements, provides a timely intellectual resource to strengthen shared commitments' - Mary Robinson. In the Yearbook 2005//06 the role of gender in global civil society is explored and the core issues of labour migration, climate change and United Nations reform is investigat

Strategy Mix for Nonprofit Organisations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I The Nonprofit-Sector and Social Integration -- Changing Focus or Changing Role? The Swedish Nonprofit Sector in the New Millennium 1 -- The Mainstreaming of the Third Sector into UK Public Policy in the late 1990s: Whys and Wherefores1 -- The Role of the Third Sector in the Netherlands -- The Transformation of Social Services in the United States*) -- The Voluntary Sector, Community Sector and Social Economy in Canada: Why one is not the Other -- PART II Labour Concepts and Market Integration -- The Third Sector in France and the Labour Market Policy1 -- Workforce Development in the United States: Key Legislative Initiatives and the Roles of the Private and Nonprofit Sectors -- The Third Sector and Labour Market Policy in Germany1 -- A Third Way to Employment and Integration? Social Enterprises in Europe between Workfare and Welfare -- The Quality of Nonprofit Employment: Patterns and Dynamics of Work Organisation in the German Third Sector -- State, Economy and Nonprofits: Does the Third Sector Change Gender Structures? 1 -- Combination of Gainful Employment and Voluntary Work of Employees: Problems and Possibilities -- The Third Sector in Europe: Five Theses1 -- Authors -- Index.