An essential resource
for anyone in
the nonprofit sector
http://iupress.
indiana.
edu
1-800-842-6796
A DictionAry of
Nonprofit
Terms &
Concepts
David Horton Smith,
Robert A.
Stebbins,
and Michael A.
Dover
This reference work presents clear, consistent,...
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An essential resource
for anyone in
the nonprofit sector
http://iupress.
indiana.
edu
1-800-842-6796
A DictionAry of
Nonprofit
Terms &
Concepts
David Horton Smith,
Robert A.
Stebbins,
and Michael A.
Dover
This reference work presents clear, consistent,
and carefully cross-referenced definitions for
more than 1,200 terms and concepts that have
been found useful in past research and theory
on the nonprofit sector.
The entries reflect the
importance of associations, volunteering, citizen
participation, philanthropy, voluntary action,
nonprofit management, volunteer administration, leisure, and political activities of nonprofits.
They also reflect a concern for the wider range of
useful general concepts in theory and research
that bear on the nonprofit sector and its manifestations in the United States and elsewhere.
Although the definitions are presented in
alphabetic order, they can also be clustered into
ten meaningful sets: general concepts relevant
to any researcher in the field;
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