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

• Autore: Cnaan Ram A.
• Pubblicazione: Los Angeles, CA : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 658.4063
• Soggetto topico: Nonprofit organizations; Social entrepreneurship; Social service - Data processing
• Persona (resp. second.): Vinokur-KaplanDiane
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cases in innovative nonprofits
• ISBN: 1-4833-5499-7; 1-4833-9808-0; 1-4833-1291-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149558103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II