Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference /: organizations that make a difference. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania, Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, University of Michigan.
• Editors: Cnaan, Ram A; Vinokur-Kaplan, Diane
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 658.4/063; Nonprofit organizations; Social entrepreneurship; Social service -- Data processing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483324326
• Related ISBNs: 148332432X
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