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The State of Nonprofit America, (ed.). 2d edition
Washington :
Brookings Institution Press, 2012.
In this second edition of this immensely successful volume, Lester Salamon and his colleagues offer an overview of the current state of America’s nonprofit sector, examining the forces that are shaping its future and identifying the changes that might be needed. This edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect changing political realities and the punishing economic climate currently battering the nonprofit sector, which faces significant financial challenges during a time when its services are needed more than ever.
Language:
English
Keywords: nonprofit sector
Jakobson L. I., Ivanova N., Telitsyna A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 Т. 6 С. 459-476
The paper presents the data of the first empirical study on the role of Russian nonprofit corporate governance (boards). Board operations are analyzed through the lens of key theories of corporate governance in the third sector. Conducted interviews revealed that resources of effectiveness which the theories posit prerequisites are critically underused. It results from the prevalence ...
Added: January 8, 2022
Smith D. H., Koninklijke Brill NV, 2019
The foundations of volunteering, charitable giving, voluntary associations, voluntary agencies, and other aspects of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector (VNPS) collectively and individual voluntary action lie in various aspects of human nature and human societies. These may be referred to variously as altruism, morality, ethics, virtue, kindness, generosity, cooperation, social solidarity, and prosociality. Such foundations of ...
Added: January 12, 2022
Smith D. H., , in : Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018). : Cham : Springer, 2018. P. 1404-1412.
Differences between Nonprofit Agencies and Membership Associations ...
Added: March 18, 2019
Zhao T., Smith D. H., Voluntaristics Review: Brill Research Perspectives 2016 No. 1(5) P. 1-67
Published research in English is reviewed on the Nonprofit Sector (NPS) in mainland China since Mao’s death in 1976. A large, diverse, and rapidly growing NPS exists, but openly political Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) outside the Communist Party and its control are prohibited. China has civil society in the narrower sense: a substantial civil society sector ...
Added: December 6, 2016
Громова М. Н., Mersiyanova I. V., Гражданское общество в России и за рубежом 2016 № 1 С. 39-44
With a view to developing civil society and addressing social policy issues, the government has been allocating a considerable amount of funding for NGO support over a number of years. Given the growing support of NGOs by the government and the increasing diversity of the relevant programs at the federal, regional and municipal levels, it ...
Added: April 12, 2016
Smith D. H., Voluntaristics Review: Brill Research Perspectives 2018 P. 1-126
The Neglected Dark Side of Voluntarism and the Nonprofit Sector: Larger Context of the General Theory of Deviant Nonprofit Groups ...
Added: February 14, 2019
Salamon L. M., Skokova Y., Krasnopolskaya I., 2020 Vol. 49 No. 5 P. 1058-1081
The recent considerable body of research designed to explain variations in nonprofit development among countries tends to gloss over regional disparities that may pose challenges to, or distort, national conclusions. This article therefore takes such analysis down to the regional level in the “hard case” of post–Soviet Russia. What it finds is that, despite its ...
Added: April 30, 2020
Tarasenko A., НОРМА, 2015
The book analyses models of the welfare state and their impact on the nonprofit sector development in European countries and in Russia. It opens with the description of theoretical concepts and shows how nonprofit sector and civil society evolve within specific political regimes or models of social policy governance. Social origin theory was employed in ...
Added: October 24, 2014
Benevolenski V., Гражданское общество в России и за рубежом 2015 № 1 С. 11-14
Based on international experience the article features an anlysis of systemic problematic implications of government funding for nonprofit organizations. ...
Added: May 13, 2015
Minnigaleeva G. A., International Journal of Education and Ageing 2013 Vol. 3 No. 1 P. 63-72
After the economic and ideological changes of the 1990’s older people in Russia have shifted to become the most vulnerable, poor and disrespected group in the country’s population. However, despite the slowly recovering birth rate and low life expectancy, the older population is predicted to constitute almost a quarter of the Russian population (24.8%) in ...
Added: July 3, 2013
Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2014
Contribution to major analytical volume on the nonprofit sector in the US, providing comprehensive overview of roles of nonprofit in core service areas as well as broad trends in the sector. ...
Added: October 15, 2014
Беневоленский В.Б., Шмулевич Е. О., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2013 № 3 С. 150-175
The article features an analysis of a set of measures of government support for socially oriented nonprofit organizations (SO NPOs) enacted in 2009 – 2013 in Russia. The analysis is aimed at assessing this Russian regulatory framework designed to channel government support to SO NPOs by comparing it with tools of government employed to facilitate ...
Added: October 4, 2013
Berlin : EU-Russia Civil Society Forum e.V., 2017
Dear colleagues, friends and supporters
of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum,
we are happy and proud to present the frst issue of a new series of annual Reports on the State of Civil Society in the EU and Russia. This was initated by members of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum who wished to acquire more systematc informaton ...
Added: May 12, 2017
A Review of Deviant Nonprofit Groups: Seeking Method in their - Alleged ‘Madness-Treason Immorality’
Smith D. H., Boston, Leiden : Brill, 2018
A Review of Deviant Nonprofit Groups: Seeking Method in their - Alleged ‘Madness-Treason Immorality’ ...
Added: March 18, 2019
Smith D. H., , in : Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (Living Edition). : Cham : Springer, 2019.
Added: March 26, 2018
Benevolenski V., Toepler S., Development in practice 2016
This article discusses a set of tools of government enacted in Russia between 2009and 2013 to provide support to so-called socially-oriented nonprofit organizations (SO/NPOs). In Russia this approach is to be considered as a serious policy innovation since so far government policy vis-à-vis the nonprofit sector could be described as either indifferent or predominantly restrictive. ...
Added: January 26, 2017
Salamon L. M., Benevolenski V., Jakobson L. I., Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 2015 Vol. 26 No. 6 P. 2178-2214
This article seeks to unravel the dual realities represented by the juxtaposition of the recent series of harsh regulatory impositions on Russian nonprofit organizations and the nearly simultaneous enactment of a series of laws and decrees establishing an impressive “tool box” of positive support programs for a large class of the so-called socially oriented Russian ...
Added: September 18, 2015
Korneeva I., В кн. : Стратегическое планирование и развитие предприятий: Материалы Восемнадцатого всероссийского симпозиума. : ЦЭМИ РАН, 2017.
В докладе дается характеристика роли маркетинга в повышении конкурентоспособности НКО – поставщиков социальных услуг ...
Added: December 11, 2017
Tarasenko A., / Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute, Florence, Italy). Series EUI RSCAS Working paper "Publications of Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)". 2013.
The paper explores the changing nature of the nonprofits under the pressure of social policy transformation in contemporary Russia. Previously social NGOs were marginalized by federal and regional governments which tended to neglect them. But during recent several years they have started to favor social services delivered by NGOs while disregarding expressive and agenda setting ...
Added: October 25, 2013
Mersiyanova I. V., Benevolenski V., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2016 № 4 С. 13-20
The involvement of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the delivery of a diversity of social welfare services is an important element of various models of a “welfare mix” approach to the transformation of the modern welfare state. According to the concepts of “third party government” and of “nonprofitization” of the welfare state such involvement allows to ...
Added: December 19, 2016
Benevolenski V., Гражданское общество в России и за рубежом 2014 № 3 С. 10-14
The article features an empirical perspective of the nonprofit sector in Central and East Europe (CEE), its scope and structure by different parameters. Among development factors with substantial impact on the evolution of the third sector in CEE particular attention is paid to the institutional heritage of the socialist period and of the early stages ...
Added: September 1, 2014
Efremov S., Вестник Института Кеннана в России 2013 № 24 С. 50-61
Added: September 3, 2014
Spencer S. B., Suslova S. V., , in : Global Civil Society in Uncertain Times: Strengthening Diversity and Sustainability. : The International Society for Third-Sector Research, 2021.
Added: November 25, 2021
Мерсиянова И.В., Беневоленский В.Б., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2017 № 2 С. 83-104
Reorganizing the social services market to allow for its access non-state providers is a major innovation in Russia. Welfare mix concepts give a theoretical justification to this innovation. The key element of justification is the demonstration of advantages NPOs have as services providers compared to state-owned or private organizations fulfilling similar functions. However, a more ...
Added: July 17, 2017