Overview

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

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Author:   Michael O'Neill (University of San Francisco)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   Revised Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780787954147

ISBN 10:   0787954144
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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An invaluable compendium: accurate, detailed, and up-to-date facts embedded in an incisive commentary on the history, impact, and prospects of the nonprofit sector. The marriage of information and understanding at its very best. --Paul G. Schervish, director, Social Welfare Research Institute and professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College Written by an outstanding scholar and leader in the nonprofit research field and rich with information, this masterful overview of the voluntary, nonprofit sector in America successfully balances accuracy of presentation, comprehensiveness, and careful judgements with a high degree of readability. This is one book that everyone concerned with American nonprofits and philanthropy should read to understand the nonprofit sector as a whole. --David Horton Smith, founder, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action The most comprehensive guidebook to America's magnificent but still largely uncharted third, nonprofit, voluntary, independent sector, 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, Indiana University

Author Information

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.

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