Measuring the impact of the nonprofit sector /

One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Flynn, Patrice, Hodgkinson, Virginia Ann
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2001]
Series:	Nonprofit and civil society studies.
Subjects:	Nonprofit organizations > Evaluation. Organizational effectiveness. Evaluation research (Social action programs) Niet-commerciële dienstverlening. Niet-commerciële organisaties. Effectenonderzoek. Metingen. Methodologie. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Measuring the contributions of the nonprofit sector / Patrice Flynn and Virginia A. Hodgkinson
Measuring failure to find success / Clifford W. Cobb
Challenges of measuring performance in nonprofit organizations / Melissa M. Stone and Susan Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Social indicators for assessing the impact of the independent, not-for-profit sector of society / Kenneth C. Land
The vicious circle of the constricting state as viewed through the failure of executive leadership in Anglo-American democracies / Colin Campbell
The necessity for studying organizational advocacy comparatively / John D. McCarthy and Jim Castelli
The distributional impacts of nonprofits and philanthropy / Julian Wolpert
Can public life be regenerated? / David Mathews
Women and philanthropy : charting a research agenda / Kathleen D. McCarthy
A theory-of-change approach to evaluating investments in public education / James P. Connell and Adena M. Klem
Measuring the impact of nonprofit health care organizations / Bradford H. Gray
Revealing the implicit : searching for measures of the impact of the arts / Margaret Jane Wyszomirski
The emerging status of outcome measurement in the nonprofit human service sector / Martha Taylor Greenway
The religious dimensions of giving and volunteering / Robert Wuthnow
Measuring the impact of the nonprofit sector on society is probably impossible but possibly useful : a sociological perspective / Paul DiMaggio
An agenda for quantitative evaluation of the nonprofit sector : need, obstacles, and approaches / Burton A. Weisbrod.