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Community organizations : studies in resource mobilization and exchange / edited by Carl Milofsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Yale studies on nonprofit organizations.
- Yale Studies on Non-Profit Organizations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voluntarism--United States.
- Voluntarism.
- Community organization--United States.
- Community organization.
- Nonprofit organizations--United States.
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the roles, functions, and governance of non-profit organizations that work on behalf of the welfare of citizens of specific communities.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Networks, Markets, Culture, and Contracts: Understanding Community Organizations; 1. Scarcity and Community: A Resource Allocation Theory of Community and Mass Society Organizations; 2. A Theory of Voluntary Organization; 3. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields; 4. Substance versus Symbol in Administrative Reform: The Case of Human Services Coordination; 5. The Corporation-Culture Connection: A Test of Interorganizational Theories; 6. United Charities: An Economic Analysis
- 7. The United Way: Understanding How It Works Is the First Step to Effecting Change8. The Market for Loving-Kindness: Day-Care Centers and the Demand for Child Care; 9. Structure and Process in Community Self-Help Organizations; 10. The Structure of Funding Arenas for Neighborhood Based Organizations; 11. Local Communities and Organized Action; Appendix: The New World Survey of Community Self-Help Organizations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-43983-1
- 0-19-536436-8
- 1-60129-642-8
- OCLC:
- 171570692
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