Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] "Global Civil Society Index"
> > Johns Hopkins researchers derail conventional beliefs about the
> nonprofit sector in "Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit
> Sector," the second volume of a book series evaluating global civil
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> The book outlines the scope, size, composition, and financing of the
> civil society sector in 36 countries and provides in-depth analysis of
> the sector in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It shows that
> nonprofit organizations are hardly an exclusively American phenomenon,
> that time, not money, contributions are more important to the economic
> and social impacts of nonprofit work, that the nonprofit sector uses a
> larger labor force than ever believed, and that government is a key
> source of nonprofit finance.
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> A new ?global civil society index? reveals that the Netherlands has
> the most robust and sustainable civil society sector among the
> countries studied, followed by Norway. The U.S. is in third place.
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> Authors Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski produced the book
> in cooperation with a team of associates based in countries ranging
> from Uganda to Pakistan as part of the Johns Hopkins Comparative
> Nonprofit Sector Project.
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> This book will be a crucial source of information on the nonprofit
> sector, and essential reading for nonprofit and foundation leaders,
> international development agency officials, and public policy makers.
> It will also be a key reference tool for libraries. The data are
> presented in an easily accessible style, with numerous charts and
> tables.
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> Available from Kumarian Press at www.kpbooks.com.
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> More information about the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector
> Project is available at www.jhu.edu/ccss.
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