Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the a
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NONPROFIT AND CIVIL SOCIETY STUDIES An International Multidisciplinary Series Series Editor: Helmut K. Anheier London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PROFESSIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE Social Change and Organizational Innovation in Poland S. Wojcieeh Sokolowski MEASURING THE IMPACT OF THE NON PROFIT SECTOR Edited by Patrice Flynn and Virginia A. Hodgkinson NEIGHBORHOOD SELF-MANAGEMENT Experiments in Civil Society Hillel Sehmid PRIVATE FUNDS, PUBLIC PURPOSE Philanthropie Foundations in International Perspeetive Edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler
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Measuring the Impact of the Nonprojit Sector Edited by PATRICE FLYNN Flynn Research Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
and VIRGINIA A. HODGKINSON Center for the Study of Voluntary Organizations and Service The Georgetown Public Policy Institute Washington, D.C.
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Ubrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Measuring the impact of the nonprofit sector/edited by Patrice Flynn and Virginia A. Hodgkinson. p. cm. - (Nonprofit and civil society studies) lncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-306-46548-2 ISBN 978-1-4615-0533-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0533-4 1. Nonprofit organizations-Evaluation. 2. Organizational effectiveness. 3. Evaluation research (Social action programs) 1. Flynn, Patrice. Il. Hodgkinson, Virginia Ann. lll. Series. HV41 .P73 2001 361. 7' 63-dc21 2001029578
ISBN 978-0-306-46548-2 ©2001 Springer Science+Business Media New York Origina1ly published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover lst edition 2001
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Contributors Colin Campbell • University Professor in Public Policy, The Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Washington, DC 20007 Jim Castelli • President, Castelli Enterprises, Inc., Burke, Virginia 22015 Clifford W Cobb • Senior Fellow, Redefining Progress, Sacramento, California 95816 James P Connell • President, Institute for Research and Reform in Education, Toms River, New Jersey 08753 Susan Cutcher-GershenJeld • Quality Consultant, Executive Office of EIder Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts 021 08 Paul DiMaggio • Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Patrice Flynn • Economist and Chief Executive Officer, FIynn Research, Harpers Ferry, West Virgina 25425 BradJord H. Gray • Director, Division ofHealth and Science Policy, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 Martha raylor Greenway • Executive Director of
