Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference / Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cnaan, Ram A., author.

Vinokur-Kaplan, Diane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Case studies.

Nonprofit organizations.

Social entrepreneurship--Case studies.

Social entrepreneurship.

Social service--Data processing--Case studies.

Social service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2015.

Summary:

Each case uses a consistent framework that allows the reader to easily navigate them and make comparisons. Concluding Lessons Learned chapter provides a summary of the themes that emerge from the cases and gives the reader an outline of the practical dimensions involved in carrying out nonprofit innovations. Profiles an array of innovative nonprofit organizations from around the world that provides the reader with a balanced picture of the sector and show commonalities between cases that come from different countries, regions, and fields. Discussion questions at the end of each case ask the reader to reflect and analyze the innovation as well think creatively and initiate successful innovations themselves.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

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

Cafe 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 Schroer

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 organzation

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

9781483354996

1483354997

9781483398082

1483398080

9781483312910

1483312917

OCLC:

962306131