Religion and Volunteering

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive associatio... Lees meer

Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit... Lees meer

East Asian Social Movements

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have simila... Lees meer

Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting f... Lees meer

Handbook on Corporate Foundations

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Companies increasingly play a meaningful role in civil society and the philanthropic sector through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporat... Lees meer

Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe

S Wojciech Sokolowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Focusing on service-providing organizations established by health and human service professionals in post-Communist Poland, this book adds a new dimen... Lees meer

Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting f... Lees meer

Social Innovations in the Urban Context

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle t... Lees meer

Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as... Lees meer

Civic Engagement in Scandinavia

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Since the 1990's, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in civic organizations in Denmark, Nor... Lees meer

The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies | nr. 20
• This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Bei... Lees meer

Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective

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• Over the past decade, the third sector has had tremendous growth worldwide in both size and importance. As many countries struggle to address this cha... Lees meer

Dilemmas of the Welfare Mix

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• The 1990's will be remembered in Europe as the period in which `privatization' assumed significant proportions in the field of welfare policies. In an... Lees meer

Innovation in Strategic Philanthropy

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• Most of the research focuses on organizations and institutions in developed market economies, in particular the United States. But in looking at other... Lees meer

The Values of Volunteering

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Volunteering is one of those phenomena which, despite the limited number of people actually involved in it, is seen as highly important for the proper... Lees meer

Private Funds, Public Purpose

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• Comparative information detailing the cultural, legal and historical environments of foundations in international settings has been scarce - until now... Lees meer

Human Security and Philanthropy

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Muslims for hundreds of years have been involved in philanthropic activities targeting poor and needy people through varied types of 'third sector' or... Lees meer

The Future of Third Sector Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• The volume discusses the current state of international comparative Third Sector research and potential avenues for future development of the field. B... Lees meer

German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective

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• This volume examines philanthropic practices against the backdrop of the continuities, disruptions and changes in twentieth century German socio-polit... Lees meer

The Power of Morality in Movements

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the for... Lees meer

Unique Environmentalism

Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle, Kristin Stromsnes, Oystein Bortne

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• their collective action. The more unique the case, the more we need to study it not only to understand the case itself but also to understand the stru... Lees meer

Handbook on Corporate Foundations

• Paperback | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Companies increasingly play a meaningful role in civil society and the philanthropic sector through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporat... Lees meer

The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies | nr. 20
• This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Bei... Lees meer

Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society

Hewa Soma

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
• Globalization is perhaps the most extensively discussed topic in contemporary academic literature and mass media. Many philanthropic organizations wor... Lees meer