Grassroots AssociationsSAGE Publications, 2000 M05 11 - 360 páginas This volume explores the world of grassroots organizations and outlines their history while differentiating them from the more familiar paid-staff nonprofit organizations. David Horton Smith, a leading scholar on the nonprofit and voluntary sector, examines the available empirical research on the topic and analyzes the theoretical concepts that have come to define such associations. He affords the reader a complete, detailed description of the nature and characteristics of grassroots organizations, their formation, structure, leadership, life cycle, effectiveness, and their integral role in postmodern societies. |
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... associational form or structure , that are volunteer run and composed essentially of volunteers as analytical members , and that have a relatively small local scope ( i.e. , locally based ) . Hence , they are one important form of ...
... associational form or structure , that are volunteer run and composed essentially of volunteers as analytical members , and that have a relatively small local scope ( i.e. , locally based ) . Hence , they are one important form of ...
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... volunteers . Conversely , many " mutual benefit " or " noncharitable " nonprofits serve some charitable purposes . An interesting contribution is Smith's attention in passing to socially deviant associations such as the Ku Klux Klan ...
... volunteers . Conversely , many " mutual benefit " or " noncharitable " nonprofits serve some charitable purposes . An interesting contribution is Smith's attention in passing to socially deviant associations such as the Ku Klux Klan ...
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... society with a paid music direc- tor and a paid half - time assistant as well as 30 to 40 unpaid singers , a 10 - person volunteer board , some program volunteers , and so on . This is technically a paid- staff nonprofit and might even ...
... society with a paid music direc- tor and a paid half - time assistant as well as 30 to 40 unpaid singers , a 10 - person volunteer board , some program volunteers , and so on . This is technically a paid- staff nonprofit and might even ...
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... volunteers , who have no organizational auspices for their volunteer activity . About 100 million associa- tional volunteers participating in GAs in the United States circa 1990 are poten- tially ignored as such ( Hodgkinson and ...
... volunteers , who have no organizational auspices for their volunteer activity . About 100 million associa- tional volunteers participating in GAs in the United States circa 1990 are poten- tially ignored as such ( Hodgkinson and ...
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... Association of Voluntary Action Scholars as the forerunner of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations ... volunteers . I hope that the book will be interesting and instructive to readers of various types , but there is a ...
... Association of Voluntary Action Scholars as the forerunner of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations ... volunteers . I hope that the book will be interesting and instructive to readers of various types , but there is a ...
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The Rest of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector | 33 |
Part II The Distinctive Nature of Grassroots Associations | 65 |
Introduction | 67 |
Chapter 3 Formational Characteristics | 71 |
Chapter 4 Internal Guidance Systems | 91 |
Chapter 5 Internal Structure | 107 |
Part III Theoretical Paradigms and Conclusions | 213 |
Introduction | 215 |
Chapter 10 FlatEarth Paradigms and a RoundEarth Paradigm Outline | 217 |
The Advent of Homo Voluntas | 243 |
Description of the Largely North American Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action | 263 |
Creating a Local Nonprofit Sampling Frame Including Grassroots Associations An American Example | 267 |
Methodology of the Smith OneSuburb Study | 279 |
References | 283 |
Chapter 6 Internal Processes | 127 |
Chapter 7 Leaders and Environments | 149 |
Chapter 8 Life Cycle Changes | 167 |
Chapter 9 Impact and Effectiveness | 195 |
Index | 321 |
About the Author | 342 |
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