Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference

Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference /

This book provides readers with current comparative case studies of innovative nonprofit organizations that are meeting the needs of humanity in both the U.S. and abroad. Edited by well-known scholars, Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, this text provides inspiring examples of social entrepreneu...

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Other Authors: Cnaan, Ram A. (Editor), Vinokur-Kaplan, Diane (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, [2015]
Subjects:
Nonprofit organizations.
Social entrepreneurship.
Social service > Data processing.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Understanding nonprofit social innovation
  • Social innovation : definitions, clarifications, and a new model / Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan
  • Social entrepreneurship, social innovation and social mission
  • Organizations : towards a conceptualization / Bjorn Schmitz
  • Innovation and new nonprofit organizations
  • Welfare reform liaison project (WRLP) : from job training to community development / Robert J. Wineburg and Odell Cleveland
  • HelpHOPELive : meeting financial needs in medical crises / Ram A. Cnaan and Lynne Coughlin Samson
  • Café au play : creating a family centered social space in Portland, Oregon / Charles Heying
  • The mind trust : innovations in urban education / Wolfgang Bielefeld
  • GiveIndia : web donations in an emerging philanthropic market / Micheal L. Shier and Femida Handy
  • Personal, societal and political conditions of successful innovations : a case study of the difficult survival of the social innovation foundation (Hungary) / Gábor Hegyesi, Katalin Talyigás, and Jon Van Til
  • Resto VanHarte : a Dutch restaurant assisting others to overcome social isolation / Lucas Meijs
  • Seacology : a win-win collaboration to protect Island environments and peoples / Bruce Sievers and Henry Jones
  • Dialogue in the dark : mainstreaming blind people in Germany / Andreas Schröer
  • Krembo wings : a youth organization for children with disabilities in Israel / Michal Almog-Bar
  • Innovation through collaboration
  • The center for rural development in Appalachia : linking 45 counties for better service delivery / Margaret F. Sloan
  • Living cities : reinventing philanthropy to serve poor communities / Avis C. Vidal
  • Overcoming constraints in the U.S. human services system : how New York City uses collaboration to encourage innovation / Lauren Miltenberger
  • Innovation within existing nonprofit organ[i]zation
  • The YMCA : a pioneer of organizational innovations / Martti Muukkonen
  • Helping social change to bloom : two capacity-building innovations at third sector New England / Diane Vinokur-Kaplan and Jonathan Spack
  • Metro teenAIDS : serve and advocate / Alan J. Abramson, Lehn M. Benjamin, and Stefan Toepler
  • Empowering social workers in social service organizations in South Korea / Chulhee Kang and Sangchul Lee
  • Social innovations in mature, faith-based, social service nonprofit organizations : two German case studies / Bjorn Schmitz
  • Lessons learned : themes observed from successful nonprofit social innovations / Diane Vinokur-Kaplan and Ram A. Cnaan
  • Authors' biographies
  • Index.

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