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A dictionary of nonprofit terms and concepts
This reference work defines more than 1,200 terms and concepts that have
been found useful in past research and theory on the nonprofit sector. The entries
reflect the importance of associations, citizen participation, philanthropy,
voluntary action, nonprofit management, volunteer administration, leisure, and
political activities of nonprofits. They also reflect a concern for the wider range
of useful general concepts in theory and research that bear on the nonprofit sector
and its manifestations in the United States and elsewhere. This dictionary supplies
some of the necessary foundational work on the road toward a general theory of the
nonprofit sector.
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A survey of voluntaristics : research on the growth of the global, interdisciplinary, socio-behavioral science field and emergent inter-discipline
\"This article provies survey of the growth of research on Nonprofit Sector and Voluntary Action Research, now termed simply voluntaristics. The author founded the organized, global interdisciplinary, socio-behavioral science field of voluntaristics in 1971, with his formation and establishment of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA; www.arnova.org). Both ARNOVA, and its interdisciplinary, academic journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), have served as initial models for the global diffusion of this interdisciplinary field, now present in all inhabited continents and with upwards of 20,000 academic participants in at least 130 nations and territories, and likely more.\"
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Grassroots associations
Grassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he sees as integral to a postmodern society moving towards participatory democracy, self-determinism and individual choice.
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The global historical and contemporary impacts of voluntary membership associations on human societies : a literature review
\"Reviewed here is global research on how 13 types of Voluntary Membership Associations (MAs) have significantly or substantially had global impacts on human history, societies, and life. Such outcomes have occurred especially in the past 200+ years since the Industrial Revolution circa 1800 CE, and its accompanying Organizational Revolution. Emphasized are longer-term, historical, and societal or multinational impacts of MAs, rather than more micro-level (individual) or meso-level (organizational) outcomes. MAs are distinctively structured, with power coming from the membership, not top-down. The author has characterized MAs as the dark matter of the nonprofit/third sector, using an astrophysical metaphor. Astrophysicists have shown that most physical matter in the universe is dark in the sense of being unseen, not stars or planets.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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