Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Measuring the Contributions of the Nonprofit Sector

      • Patrice Flynn, Virginia A. Hodgkinson

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3. Concerns of Measurement and Evaluation

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Measuring Failure to Find Success

      • Clifford W. Cobb

      Pages 21-32

   3. Challenges of Measuring Performance in Nonprofit Organizations

      • Melissa M. Stone, Susan Cutcher-Gershenfeld

      Pages 33-57

   4. Social Indicators for Assessing the Impact of the Independent, Not-for-Profit Sector of Society

      • Kenneth C. Land

      Pages 59-76

4. Civil Society and Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-80

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   2. The Vicious Circle of the Constricting State as Viewed through the Failure of Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Democracies

      • Colin Campbell

      Pages 81-101

   3. The Necessity for Studying Organizational Advocacy Comparatively

      • John D. McCarthy, Jim Castelli

      Pages 103-121

   4. The Distributional Impacts of Nonprofits and Philanthropy

      • Julian Wolpert

      Pages 123-136

   5. Can Public Life Be Regenerated?

      • David Mathews

      Pages 137-156

5. Measuring the Impact of Various Subsectors and Special Populations

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   2. Women and Philanthropy

      • Kathleen D. McCarthy

      Pages 161-172

   3. A Theory-of-Change Approach to Evaluating Investments in Public Education

      • James P. Connell, Adena M. Klem

      Pages 173-183

   4. Measuring the Impact of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations

      • Bradford H. Gray

      Pages 185-198

   5. Revealing the Implicit

      • Margaret Jane Wyszomirski

      Pages 199-216

   6. The Emerging Status of Outcome Measurement in the Nonprofit Human Service Sector

      • Martha Taylor Greenway

      Pages 217-229

   7. The Religious Dimensions of Giving and Volunteering

      • Robert Wuthnow

      Pages 231-245

6. Conclusions

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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 art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.

• Change
• Governance
• Leadership
• development
• performance

• Flynn Research, Harpers Ferry, USA

  Patrice Flynn

• Center for the Study of Voluntary Organizations and Service, The Georgetown Public Policy Institute, USA

  Virginia A. Hodgkinson

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