TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gunn,Christopher
TI  - Third-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market 
SN  - 9781501725333
AV  - HD2769.2.U6 G86 2004
U1  - 338.7/4 22
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Cooperation
KW  - United States
KW  - Human services
KW  - Non-governmental organizations
KW  - Nonprofit organizations
KW  - Business (General)
KW  - General Economics
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. The Third Sector --; Chapter 2. Third-Sector Scope, Scale, and Purpose --; Chapter 3. Development and the Third Sector --; Chapter 4. Food --; Chapter 5. Housing --; Chapter 6. Financial Services --; Chapter 7. Health Care --; Chapter 8. The Arts --; Chapter 9. Other Basic Needs --; Chapter 10. Support Organizations --; Chapter 11. Public Policy for Third-Sector Development --; Chapter 12. Developing a Future --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the normal operation of the market economy. These organizations comprise the third sector, which accounts for approximately 10 percent of U.S. economic activity. As part of the fastest growing sector in the economy, these dynamic organizations play an increasing role in strengthening local economies. In the United States, they help to compensate for a state that is, in Gunn's view, relatively disengaged from meeting basic human needs. This book helps move thinking about the third sector beyond traditional nonprofits centered on education, health care, and charity, and into the realm of often smaller, dynamic organizations that engage in collective entrepreneurship. Throughout, Gunn illustrates how organizations founded with little in the way of financial resources have made substantial contributions to economic development and general well-being in the communities they serve and from which they arise. After explaining why local development is a problem in such a wealthy and resource-rich country as the United States, Christopher Gunn profiles more than two dozen organizations ranging from child-care cooperatives to retirement communities, from co-housing "villages" to financial institutions. He also investigates public-policy changes that could strengthen this alternative sector's contribution to economic development
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501725333
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501725333
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501725333/original
ER  -