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A dictionary of nonprofit terms and concepts / David Horton Smith, Robert A. Stebbins, and Michael A. Dover.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, David Horton.
- Series:
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonprofit organizations--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Voluntarism--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Voluntarism.
- Charities--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Charities.
- Social action--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Social action.
- Social participation--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Social participation.
- Political participation--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Political participation.
- Leisure--Social aspects--Terminology--Dictionaries.
- Leisure.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This reference work defines more than 1,200 terms and concepts that have been found useful in past research and theory on the nonprofit sector. The entries reflect the importance of associations, citizen participation, philanthropy, voluntary action, nonprofit management, volunteer administration, leisure, and political activities of nonprofits. They also reflect a concern for the wider range of useful general concepts in theory and research that bear on the nonprofit sector and its manifestations in t
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; preface; acknowledgments; lexicographic note; Introduction: Defining Nonprofit/VoluntarySector Terms and Concepts; Dictionary of Terms and Concepts; bibliography; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07301-X
- 9786612073014
- 0-253-11222-2
- OCLC:
- 476072295
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