| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices; Preface; Part I. Introduction; 1. Faith-Based Nonprofits and the Civil Society; 2. Nonprofit Housing Provision: Themes and Arguments; 3. Understanding the Policy Role of Faith-Based Nonprofits; 4. Mapping the Civil Society: Methods and Data; Part II. A Question of Capacity: The Debate on the Role and Effectiveness of the Nonprofit Sector; 5. Federal Programs and the Michigan Housing Network; 6. Structure and Capacity of Housing Nonprofits |
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Part III. Empirical Findings on the Role and Effectiveness of the Nonprofit Sector in Michigan; 7. Housing Provision: Context by Sectors and Trends Over Time; 8. Scope and Extent of Broader Community Involvement and Trends over Time; Part IV. Impacts and Implications; 9. Collaborations and Partnerships: Networks for Housing Service Delivery; 10. Nature and Types of Collaboration; 11. Political Activity and Policy Involvement; 12. Nonprofits, Service Provision, and Governing the Civil Society; Appendix A. Methodology Appendix; Appendix B. Supplemental Tables, Figure, and Map; Index |
| Summary |
Public debate on the appropriate role of faith-based organizations in the American political system has been extensive, and often quite heated, but accurate assessments of their impacts on key political issues has been difficult, due to a lack of reliable data on what FBOs do and how they do it. Reinventing Civil Society fills that need. It reviews and assesses what is known about the public service activities of FBOs, and poses and tests opposing models of faith-based service provision in the public sphere. The book focuses on the degree to which there is collaboration among and between faith |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Dec. 29, 2014) |
| Subject |
Low-income housing -- Government policy -- United States
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Low-income housing -- Michigan
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Nonprofit organizations -- Michigan
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Faith-based human services -- United States -- Evaluation
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Civil society -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Civil society
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Low-income housing
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Low-income housing -- Government policy
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Nonprofit organizations
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Michigan
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hula, Richard C., 1947- author.
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Reese, Laura A. (Laura Ann), 1958- author.
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| ISBN |
9781317461180 |
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1317461185 |
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9781315701219 |
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1315701219 |
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9780765629937 |
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0765629933 |
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