The Non-profit Sector in a Changing Economy / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Content Provider.

Series:

Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), 19901097.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations.

Local Subjects:

Nonprofit organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent socio-economic trends, welfare state reform; the emergence of civil society and democracy have highlighted the growing significance of the non-profit sector – a sector between state and market – often associated with concepts such as ‘social economy’, ‘third sector’, ‘voluntary sector’, ‘third system’, ‘independent sector’ and, more recently, ‘social entrepreneurship’. This sector is facing a number of crucial new challenges such as management quality whilst both maintaining the sector's unique social dimension and fostering social innovation. Drawing on contributions from leading experts and academics, this report provides ground-breaking assessment of new trends; reviews the significant non-profit sector developments in EU countries, the US; Canada; Mexico and Australia; and provides tools on how to finance, monitor and evaluate the sector. This book, supported by statistical data, is for policy makers, practitioners, academics and the corporate sector.

Contents:

Foreword; Table of contents; Synthesis; Chapter 1. New Trends in the Non-profit Sector in Europe: The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship; Chapter 2. New Trends in the US Non-profit Sector: Towards Market Integration?; Chapter 3. New Trends in the Non-profit Sector in Australia: A Greater Involvement in Employment and Social Policies; Chapter 4. The Non-profit Sector in Mexico: From Informal to Formal Recognition; Chapter 5. New Trends in Financing the Non-profit Sector in the United States...; Chapter 6. New Forms of Financing Social Economy Enterprises and Organisations in Quebec

Chapter 7. Financial Tools for Third System Organisations: A European PerspectiveChapter 8. Innovation, Value Added and Evaluation in the Third System: A European Perspective; Chapter 9. Non-profit Sector and Evaluation: The State of Play in Quebec; Chapter 10. Non-profit Sector Impact Evaluation: The View from the USA; Chapter 11. International and European Perspectives on the Non-profit Sector: Data, Theory and Statistics; Glossary; Bibliography; Websites; List of contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

92-64-19954-3

OCLC:

191039632