Cases in Innovative Nonprofits
Organizations That Make a Difference
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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.
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.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Understanding Nonprofit Social Innovation
- 1. Social Innovation: Definitions, Clarifications, and a New Model
- 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Social Mission Organizations: Towards a Conceptualization
Part 2: Innovation and New Nonprofit Organizations
- 3. Welfare Reform Liaison Project (WRLP): From Job Training to Community Development
- 4. HelpHopeLive: Meeting Financial Needs in Medical Crises
- 5. Café au Play: Creating a Family Centered Social Space in Portland, Oregon
- 6. The Mind Trust: Innovations in Urban Education
- 7. GiveIndia: Web Donations in an Emerging Philanthropic Market
- 8. Personal, Societal, and Political Conditions of Successful Innovations: A Case Study of the Difficult Survival of the Social Innovation Foundation (Hungary)
- 9. Resto VanHarte: A Dutch Restaurant Assisting Others to Overcome Social Isolation
- 10. Seacology: A Win-Win Collaboration to Protect Island Environments and Peoples
- 11. Dialogue in the Dark: Mainstreaming Blind People in Germany
- 12. Krembo Wings: A Youth Organization for Children With Disabilities in Israel
Part 3: Innovation Through Collaboration
- 13. The Center for Rural Development in Appalachia: Linking 45 Counties for Better Service Delivery
- 14. Living Cities: Reinventing Philanthropy to Serve Poor Communities
- 15. Overcoming Constraints in the U.S. Human Services System: How New York City Uses Collaboration to Encourage Innovation
Part 4: Innovation Within Existing Nonprofit Organizations
- 16. The YMCA: A Pioneer of Organizational Innovations
- 17. Helping Social Change to Bloom: Two Capacity-Building Innovations at Third Sector New England
- 18. Metro TeenAIDS: Serve and Advocate
- 19. Empowering Social Workers in Social Service Organizations in South Korea
- 20. Social Innovations in Mature, Faith-Based, Social Service Nonprofit Organizations: Two German Case Studies
Part 5: Lesson Learned
- 21. Lessons Learned: Themes Observed from Successful Nonprofit Social Innovations
About the Authors
About the Authors
Index
Index
Description
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.
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.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Understanding Nonprofit Social Innovation
- 1. Social Innovation: Definitions, Clarifications, and a New Model
- 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Social Mission Organizations: Towards a Conceptualization
Part 2: Innovation and New Nonprofit Organizations
- 3. Welfare Reform Liaison Project (WRLP): From Job Training to Community Development
- 4. HelpHopeLive: Meeting Financial Needs in Medical Crises
- 5. Café au Play: Creating a Family Centered Social Space in Portland, Oregon
- 6. The Mind Trust: Innovations in Urban Education
- 7. GiveIndia: Web Donations in an Emerging Philanthropic Market
- 8. Personal, Societal, and Political Conditions of Successful Innovations: A Case Study of the Difficult Survival of the Social Innovation Foundation (Hungary)
- 9. Resto VanHarte: A Dutch Restaurant Assisting Others to Overcome Social Isolation
- 10. Seacology: A Win-Win Collaboration to Protect Island Environments and Peoples
- 11. Dialogue in the Dark: Mainstreaming Blind People in Germany
- 12. Krembo Wings: A Youth Organization for Children With Disabilities in Israel
Part 3: Innovation Through Collaboration
- 13. The Center for Rural Development in Appalachia: Linking 45 Counties for Better Service Delivery
- 14. Living Cities: Reinventing Philanthropy to Serve Poor Communities
- 15. Overcoming Constraints in the U.S. Human Services System: How New York City Uses Collaboration to Encourage Innovation
Part 4: Innovation Within Existing Nonprofit Organizations
- 16. The YMCA: A Pioneer of Organizational Innovations
- 17. Helping Social Change to Bloom: Two Capacity-Building Innovations at Third Sector New England
- 18. Metro TeenAIDS: Serve and Advocate
- 19. Empowering Social Workers in Social Service Organizations in South Korea
- 20. Social Innovations in Mature, Faith-Based, Social Service Nonprofit Organizations: Two German Case Studies
Part 5: Lesson Learned
- 21. Lessons Learned: Themes Observed from Successful Nonprofit Social Innovations
About the Authors
About the Authors
Index
Index
Cases in Innovative Nonprofits
Organizations That Make a Difference
December 2014 | 336 pages | Sage US
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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.
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.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Understanding Nonprofit Social Innovation
- 1. Social Innovation: Definitions, Clarifications, and a New Model
- 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Social Mission Organizations: Towards a Conceptualization
- Part 2: Innovation and New Nonprofit Organizations
- 3. Welfare Reform Liaison Project (WRLP): From Job Training to Community Development
- 4. HelpHopeLive: Meeting Financial Needs in Medical Crises
- 5. Café au Play: Creating a Family Centered Social Space in Portland, Oregon
- 6. The Mind Trust: Innovations in Urban Education
- 7. GiveIndia: Web Donations in an Emerging Philanthropic Market
- 8. Personal, Societal, and Political Conditions of Successful Innovations: A Case Study of the Difficult Survival of the Social Innovation Foundation (Hungary)
- 9. Resto VanHarte: A Dutch Restaurant Assisting Others to Overcome Social Isolation
- 10. Seacology: A Win-Win Collaboration to Protect Island Environments and Peoples
- 11. Dialogue in the Dark: Mainstreaming Blind People in Germany
- 12. Krembo Wings: A Youth Organization for Children With Disabilities in Israel
- Part 3: Innovation Through Collaboration
- 13. The Center for Rural Development in Appalachia: Linking 45 Counties for Better Service Delivery
- 14. Living Cities: Reinventing Philanthropy to Serve Poor Communities
- 15. Overcoming Constraints in the U.S. Human Services System: How New York City Uses Collaboration to Encourage Innovation
- Part 4: Innovation Within Existing Nonprofit Organizations
- 16. The YMCA: A Pioneer of Organizational Innovations
- 17. Helping Social Change to Bloom: Two Capacity-Building Innovations at Third Sector New England
- 18. Metro TeenAIDS: Serve and Advocate
- 19. Empowering Social Workers in Social Service Organizations in South Korea
- 20. Social Innovations in Mature, Faith-Based, Social Service Nonprofit Organizations: Two German Case Studies
- Part 5: Lesson Learned
- 21. Lessons Learned: Themes Observed from Successful Nonprofit Social Innovations
- Social Change to Bloom: Two Capacity-Building Innovations at Third Sector New England
- About the Authors
- Index