Growing Civil Society From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space

Name: Growing Civil Society From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space
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ISBN: 9780253220479

ISBN-10: 0253220475

ISBN-13: 9780253220479

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jon Van Til

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A call to strengthen the social fabric through community action

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Jon Van Til is Professor of Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University, Camden. His books include Critical Issues in American Philanthropy: Strengthening Theory and Practice and Mapping the Third Sector: Voluntarism in a Changing Social Economy.



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Introduction: Third Sector, Third Space



The Uses of the Third Sector



Building Blocks for the Third Sector



Mapping the Boundaries



On the Boundary between Government and the Third Sector



The Third Sector as a Political Force



National Service in Theory and Practice



The Emerging Field of Nonprofit Policy Study



On the Boundary between Business and the Third Sector



Making Money, Wielding Power, and Other Temptations of Nonprofit Life



The Art and Business of Nonprofit Organization Management



When the Business of Nonprofits Is Increasingly Business



On the Boundary between Culture and the Third Space



Civil Education: Moving to Define an Ambiguous Tradition



On the Contemporary Hope for Faith and Charity



Social Entrepreneurship and the End of Work



Searching for Meaning and Justice



Commission Reports on the Third Sector



Civil Society and the Escape from Madness



A Third Space



Beyond the Myths of Sector



Growing Civil Society, Using the Third Space


Notes


References


Index