The Nonprofit Economy / / Burton Allen Weisbrod.

Nonprofit organizations are all around us. Many people send their children to nonprofit day-care centers, schools, and colleges, and their elderly parents to nonprofit nursing homes; when they are ill, they may well go to a nonprofit hospital; they may visit a nonprofit museum, read the magazine of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1988
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (265 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. Nonprofits in a Mixed Economy
  • 2. Options among Institutional Forms
  • 3. Incentives and Performance
  • 4. Anatomy of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector
  • 5. Charitable Donations
  • 6. Revenues from Sales
  • 7. Volunteer Labor
  • 8. Are Nonprofits Really Different?
  • 9. Recommendations for Public Policy
  • Appendix A. Characteristics of the Nonprofit Economy
  • Appendix B. The Nonprofit Sector around the World
  • Appendix C. Financing Nonprofits
  • Appendix D. Restrictions on Lobbying by N onprofits
  • Appendix E. Volunteer Labor
  • Appendix F. For-profit and Nonprofit Behavior in Three Long-Term-Care Industries
  • Notes
  • Index