Policy advocacy is widely regarded as an eminent feature of nonprofit organizations'
activities, allowing them to represent their constituencies. The article presents a literature …

Performance measurement has gained increased importance in the nonprofit sector, and
contemporary literature is populated with numerous performance measurement frameworks …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

In this new edition of his popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management,
Policy, Helmut K. Anheier has fully updated, revised and expanded his comprehensive …

Commonly, researchers have looked for civic life in a distinct sector in which they assume
that voluntary associations will cultivate special skills and virtues. Gathering together many …

Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents
crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government …

The recent “inhabited institutions” research stream in organizational theory reinvigorates
new institutionalism by arguing that organizations are not merely the instantiation of …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most significant form of collective
religious expression in America: local congregations. Among its more surprising findings …

Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf
of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars …

More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are
noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are …