On Being Nonprofit : A Conceptual and Policy Primer / Peter Frumkin.
Frumkin, Peter, author.
2009
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Title On Being Nonprofit : A Conceptual and Policy Primer / Peter Frumkin.
Author Frumkin, Peter, author.
ISBN 9780674037403
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037403
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2005
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (224 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674037403 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 361.7/63
Summary This concise and illuminating book provides a road map to the evolving conceptual and policy terrain of the nonprofit sector. Drawing on prominent economic, political, and sociological explanations of nonprofit activity, Peter Frumkin focuses on four important functions that have come to define nonprofit organizations. The author clarifies the debate over the underlying rationale for the nonprofit and voluntary sector's privileged position in America by examining how nonprofits deliver needed services, promote civic engagement, express values and faith, and channel entrepreneurial impulses. He also exposes the difficult policy questions that have emerged as the boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and government sectors have blurred. Focusing on nonprofits' growing dependence on public funding, tendency toward political polarization, often idiosyncratic missions, and increasing commercialism, Peter Frumkin argues that the long-term challenges facing nonprofit organizations will only be solved when they achieve greater balance among their four central functions. By probing foundational thinking as well as emergent ideas, the book is an essential guide for nonprofit novitiates and experts alike who want to understand the issues propelling public debate about the future of their sector. By virtue of its breadth and insight, Frumkin's book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding the complex interplay of public purposes and private values that animate nonprofit organizations.
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Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
1. The Idea of a Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
2. Civic and Political Engagement
3. Service Delivery
4. Values and Faith
5. Social Entrepreneurship
6. Balancing the Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action
Notes
Index

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