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Title Cases in innovative nonprofits : organizations that make a difference / editors Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania, Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, University of Michigan
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2014

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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
Summary Become an innovator in the nonprofit world Student friendly and readable, Cases in Innovative Nonprofits provides readers with current comparative case studies of innovative nonprofit organizations that are meeting the needs of humanity in both the U.S. and abroad. Edited by well-known scholars, Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, this text provides inspiring examples of social entrepreneurs who have instituted new services to meet the needs of both new and long standing social problems. Each case features either an unidentified need and its successful response, or an existing need that was tackled in a unique and innovative manner. The text is purposefully organized into four parts: Part 1: Two conceptual chapters give the reader an understanding of what a nonprofit social innovation is and tools to analyze various social innovations in this volume and elsewhere. Part 2: Ten cases reveal the innovative formation of new nonprofit organizations. Part 3: Three cases emphasize innovation through collaboration. Part 4: Five cases demonstrate innovations taking place within an existing nonprofit organization. By using a simple, identical format for each case, this text facilitates student learning through comparative review, providing a deeper understanding about the complexity and steps required to achieve nonprofit social innovation
Subject Nonprofit organizations.
Social entrepreneurship.
Social service -- Data processing
Organizations, Nonprofit
nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit organizations
Social entrepreneurship
Social service -- Data processing
Form Electronic book
Author Cnaan, Ram A., editor
Vinokur-Kaplan, Diane, editor
ISBN 9781483324326
148332432X
9781483312910
1483312917