Smallville : institutionalizing community in twenty-first-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Milofsky, Carl
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Medford, Mass. : Hanover : Tufts University Press ; University Press of New England, [2008]
Series:	Civil society.
Subjects:	Community organization > United States > Case studies. Nonprofit organizations > United States > Case studies. Voluntarism > United States > Case studies.

Table of Contents:

Where nonprofits come from
The Wild River Institute and Smallville's social treasury
Organizational phoenix: fighting the incinerator
The love life of an alternative school
Influx: institutionalizing a social problem
How doctors act: the medical community as a network organization
Cooptation of activist movements: the women's shelter and the AIDS organization
Filling a structural hole: a religious program for delinquents helps the schools and the courts
The Episcopal diocese as a mediating structure
Transorganizations: new organizational perspectives for understanding community-level nonprofits.