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Author : Jennifer R. Wolch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018513955
Author : Linda Milbourne
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847427236
Voluntary and community organisations have moved to the centre of political debates, as the new UK government reduces the scope of the state and locates solutions in civil society. This new book explores the extensive growth and reshaping of the voluntary sector following sweeping changes to social and welfare policy over 30 years. It draws on contemporary social and organisational theory and debates to consider whether surviving in the voluntary sector now depends on realigning activities and compromising independent goals and values.
Author : Joe Mancini,Stephanie Mancini
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771121620
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, populations that collectively constitute up to 30 percent of the labour market both locally and across North America. Transition to Common Work is the essential text about The Working Centre—its beginnings thirty years ago, the lessons learned, and the myriad ways in which its strategies and innovations can be adapted by those who share its goals. The Working Centre focuses on creating access-to-tools projects rather than administrative layers of bureaucracy. This book highlights the core philosophy behind the centre’s decentralized but integrated structure, which has contributed to the creation of affordable services. Underlying this approach are common-sense innovations such as thinking about virtues rather than values, developing community tools with a social enterprise approach, and implementing a radically equal salary policy. For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), this practical and inspiring book provides a method for moving beyond the doldrums of “poverty relief” into the exciting world of community building.
Author : Jeremy Kendall,Martin Knapp
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Charities
ISBN : 0719050383
This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.
Author : Hughes, Ciaran,Ketola, Markus
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447351245
This book charts the changing relationships between government, voluntary and community organisations in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement. It considers the role these actors have played in rolling out and normalising neoliberal discourses and policies. With lessons about the impact of neoliberal policies on governance, relationships and the peace process, this study explores how a core part of civil society has been shaped by both local policy priorities and broader political and economic processes.
Author : Rees, James,Mullins, David
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447322436
This important book is the first edited collection to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the third sector’s role in public service delivery. Exploring areas such as social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value, the authors provide a platform for academic and policy debates on the topic. Drawing on research carried out at the ESRC funded Third Sector Research Centre, the book charts the historical development of the state-third sector relationship, and reviews the major debates and controversies accompanying recent shifts in that relationship. It is a valuable resource for social science academics and postgraduate students as well as policymakers and practitioners in the public and third sectors in fields such as criminal justice, health, housing and social care.
Author : Stephen P. Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134098811
Edited by a leading light in the field, this book presents contemporary research into the voluntary sector in Europe, exploring its contribution to European society as well as the key challenges it faces, drawing from both economics and sociology.
Author : Lester M. Salamon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815706499
A Brookings Institution Press and the Aspen Institute publication The thousands of organizations that comprise America's private nonprofit sector represent a national treasure. Yet serious pressures are altering the playing field on which nonprofits operate, and many are responding in ways that may undermine their popular support. Despite the significance of these developments, little has been done to analyze and interpret them in a clear and understandable way. Lester M. Salamon, a leading authority on the nonprofit sector, has joined forces with more than a dozen other experts and the Aspen Institute to produce this volume, an integrated, authoritative assessment of the state of nonprofit America and the key trends affecting its evolution. The book is organized into three sections. The first summarizes critical trends and issues; the second examines each of the sector's major subsectors (e.g., health, education, social services, arts and culture, international assistance, advocacy); the third focuses on major cross-cutting trends and issues (commercialization, changing government policy, accountability, and demographic and technological imperatives). The Resilient Sector will be updated every two years. It provides a basic sourcebook for sector leaders, the press, public officials, and citizens concerned about the future of America's nonprofit sector and eager to understand the forces affecting it.
Author : Christine Milligan,David Conradson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781847429063
The appeal of voluntary action as a solution to growing welfare needs in advanced capitalist countries raises important questions about the social impacts and spatial equity of such provision. This book addresses these issues and explores the complex relationship between voluntary action, society and space.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134068906
This text presents a perspective on the third sector. Rather than considering non-governmental development organizations and voluntary agencies separately, it explores the similarities, differences and growing connections between them in both northern and southern contexts. Authors in the field consider the differences in scale and priority that exist between different types of third sector organizations in different settings, as well as the common challenges of accountability, legitimacy, effectiveness and governance. Models of learning and communication, including southern ideas such as micro-credit provision, are also examined, as are the continuing barriers.
Author : Body, Alison
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447346449
Following a decade of radical change in policy and funding in children’s early intervention services and with the role of the third sector under increased scrutiny, this timely book assesses the shifting interplay between state provision and voluntary organisations delivering interventions for children, young people and their families. Using one-hundred voices from charities and their partners on the frontline, this book provides vivid accounts of the lived experiences of charitable groups, offering key insights into the impact of recent social policy decisions on their work. Telling the story of how the landscape of children’s early intervention services has changed over the last decade, it provides crucial lessons for future policy whilst demonstrating the immeasurable value of voluntary organisations working in this challenging terrain.
Author : Luis Amorim,Council of Europe. Directorate of Youth and Sport,Tony Geudens
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287155682
T-Kits (Training kits) are a product of the Partnership Agreement on European Youth Worker Training run by the CoE and the European Communities Commission
Author : Ann McKinstry Micou,Birgit Lindsnaes,Danske menneskerettighedscenter,Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN : UOM:39015034891054
Author : Brewis, Georgina,Ellis Paine, Angela
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447357216
ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the consolidation of the welfare state in the 1940s, and its reshaping in the 2010s, the boundaries between the state, voluntary action, the family and the market were called into question. This interdisciplinary book explores the impact of these ‘transformational moments’ on the role, position and contribution of voluntary action to social welfare. It considers how different narratives have been constructed, articulated and contested by public, political and voluntary sector actors, making comparisons within and across the 1940s and 2010s. With a unique analysis of recent and historical material, this important book illuminates contemporary debates about voluntary action and welfare.
Author : Lindsey, Rose,Mohan, John
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447324874
There are great expectations of voluntary action in contemporary Britain but limited in-depth insight into the level, distribution and understanding of what constitutes voluntary activity. Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this book charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. How voluntary action has been defined and measured is considered alongside individuals’ accounts of their participation and engagement in volunteering over their lifecourses. Addressing fundamental questions such as whether the public are cynical about or receptive to calls for greater voluntary action, the book considers whether respective government expectations of volunteering can really be fulfilled. Is Britain really a “shared society”, or a “big society”, and what is the scope for expansion of voluntary effort? This pioneering study combines rich, qualitative material from the Mass Observation Archive between 1981 and 2012, and data from many longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys. Part of the Third Sector Research Series, this book is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.