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Book The Shadow State

Download or read book The Shadow State written by Jennifer R. Wolch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voluntary Sector in Transition

Download or read book Voluntary Sector in Transition written by Milbourne, Linda and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntary and community organisations have moved to the centre of political debates, as the new UK government reduces the scope of the state and locates solutions in civil society. This new book explores the extensive growth and reshaping of the voluntary sector following sweeping changes to social and welfare policy over 30 years. It draws on contemporary social and organisational theory and debates to consider whether surviving in the voluntary sector now depends on realigning activities and compromising independent goals and values.

Book The Local State and Voluntary Sector in Transition

Download or read book The Local State and Voluntary Sector in Transition written by Margaret Eveline Moores and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turning a Corner

Download or read book Turning a Corner written by Eliza Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organising for Influence

Download or read book Organising for Influence written by Margy-Jean Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How can the voluntary sector have a more effective influence on government policy ... advocacy role ... strengthening management ... government policy process" -- Executive summary.

Book Introduction to the Voluntary Sector

Download or read book Introduction to the Voluntary Sector written by Rodney Hedley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of the voluntary sector: its history, importance and current responsibilities. Practical guidance and analysis of issues facing voluntary sector including its legal framework in UK and EU, fundraising, management and accountability.

Book Perspectives on Volunteering

Download or read book Perspectives on Volunteering written by Jacqueline Butcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This volume overlooks the distinct expressions and awareness of volunteering in the lived reality of people from different regions of the world. By casting the net widely this book not only expands the geographic reach of experiences, models and case studies but also transcends the conventional focus on formal volunteering. It highlights institutional forms of volunteering specific to developing nations and also describes volunteering that is more loosely institutionalized, informal, and a part of solidarity and collective spirit. As a result this book provides a different look at the values, meaning, acts and expressions of volunteering. The chapters in this book consist of essays and case studies that present recent academic research, thinking and practice on volunteering. Working from the premise that volunteering is universal this collection draws on experiences from Latin America, Africa including Egypt, and Asia. This book focuses on developing countries and countries in transition in order to provide a fresh set of experiences and perspectives on volunteering. While developing countries and countries in transition are in the spotlight for this volume, the developed country experience is not ignored. Rather the essays use it as a critical reference point for comparisons, allowing points of convergence, disconnect and intersection to emerge.

Book Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action

Download or read book Continuity and Change in Voluntary Action written by Rose Lindsey and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are great expectations of voluntary action in contemporary Britain but limited in-depth insight into the level, distribution and understanding of what constitutes voluntary activity. Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this book charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. How voluntary action has been defined and measured is considered alongside individuals’ accounts of their participation and engagement in volunteering over their lifecourses. Addressing fundamental questions such as whether the public are cynical about or receptive to calls for greater voluntary action, the book considers whether respective government expectations of volunteering can really be fulfilled. Is Britain really a “shared society”, or a “big society”, and what is the scope for expansion of voluntary effort? This pioneering study combines rich, qualitative material from the Mass Observation Archive between 1981 and 2012, and data from many longitudinal and cross-sectional social surveys. Part of the Third Sector Research Series, this book is informed by research undertaken at the Third Sector Research Centre, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Book Volunteer Organizations in Transition

Download or read book Volunteer Organizations in Transition written by Donald L. Plambeck and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voluntary and Community Organisations in Transition

Download or read book Voluntary and Community Organisations in Transition written by Catherine Ann Driscoll and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Third Sector Delivering Public Services

Download or read book The Third Sector Delivering Public Services written by James Rees and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book is the first edited collection to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the third sector’s role in public service delivery. Exploring areas such as social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value, the authors provide a platform for academic and policy debates on the topic. Drawing on research carried out at the ESRC funded Third Sector Research Centre, the book charts the historical development of the state-third sector relationship, and reviews the major debates and controversies accompanying recent shifts in that relationship. It is a valuable resource for social science academics and postgraduate students as well as policymakers and practitioners in the public and third sectors in fields such as criminal justice, health, housing and social care.

Book Voluntary Action in Health and Population

Download or read book Voluntary Action in Health and Population written by Sunil Misra and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2000-03-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues for a research-oriented approach, where public health care is treated as an integral part of the total culture that is being studied. It stresses the importance of formulating strategies that are in consonance with the concerned socio-cultural milieu and which take into account variables such as food habits, economic status, religious beliefs and social institutions. In this framework, this book brings together fourteen case studies of action research projects undertaken by voluntary organisations in the field of health and family planning.

Book International Perspectives on Voluntary Action

Download or read book International Perspectives on Voluntary Action written by David Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a perspective on the third sector. Rather than considering non-governmental development organizations and voluntary agencies separately, it explores the similarities, differences and growing connections between them in both northern and southern contexts. Authors in the field consider the differences in scale and priority that exist between different types of third sector organizations in different settings, as well as the common challenges of accountability, legitimacy, effectiveness and governance. Models of learning and communication, including southern ideas such as micro-credit provision, are also examined, as are the continuing barriers.

Book Transition to Common Work

Download or read book Transition to Common Work written by Joe Mancini and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, populations that collectively constitute up to 30 percent of the labour market both locally and across North America. Transition to Common Work is the essential text about The Working Centre—its beginnings thirty years ago, the lessons learned, and the myriad ways in which its strategies and innovations can be adapted by those who share its goals. The Working Centre focuses on creating access-to-tools projects rather than administrative layers of bureaucracy. This book highlights the core philosophy behind the centre’s decentralized but integrated structure, which has contributed to the creation of affordable services. Underlying this approach are common-sense innovations such as thinking about virtues rather than values, developing community tools with a social enterprise approach, and implementing a radically equal salary policy. For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), this practical and inspiring book provides a method for moving beyond the doldrums of “poverty relief” into the exciting world of community building.

Book The Welfare State in Transition

Download or read book The Welfare State in Transition written by Norman Johnson and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on welfare states in capitalist societies, The Welfare State in Transition carries forward the debate on pluralism, identifying and discussing the problems involved in transferring responsibility for welfare services from the state to the other three sectors.