Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference /

Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference / editors Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania, Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, University of Michigan.

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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