I. Introduction.- 1 • Measuring the Contributions of the Nonprofit Sector.- II. Concerns of Measurement and Evaluation.- 2 • Measuring Failure to Find Success.- 3 • Challenges of Measuring Performance in Nonprofit Organizations.- 4 • Social Indicators for Assessing the Impact of the Independent, Not-for-Profit Sector of Society.- III. Civil Society and Governance.- 5 • The Vicious Circle of the Constricting State as Viewed through the Failure of Executive Leadership in Anglo-American Democracies.- 6 • The Necessity for Studying Organizational Advocacy Comparatively.- 7 • The Distributional Impacts of Nonprofits and Philanthropy.- 8 • Can Public Life Be Regenerated?.- IV Measuring the Impact of Various Subsectors and Special Populations.- 9 • Women and Philanthropy: Charting a Research Agenda.- 10 • A Theory-of-Change Approach to Evaluating Investments in Public Education.- 11 • Measuring the Impact of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations.- 12 • Revealing the Implicit: Searching for Measures of the Impact of the Arts.- 13 • The Emerging Status of Outcome Measurement in the Nonprofit Human Service Sector.- 14 • The Religious Dimensions of Giving and Volunteering.- V. Conclusions.- 15 • Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector on Society Is Probably Impossible but Possibly Useful: A Sociological Perspective.- 16 • An Agenda for Quantitative Evaluation of the Nonprofit Sector: Need, Obstacles, and Approaches.
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From the reviews: "The contributors to the volume engage themselves
with basic issues of measurement such as availability and analysis
of data, extant knowledge and methods, methodological and empirical
possibilities, directions for future research, and the several
difficulties intrinsic to this enterprise. a ] The essays a ] are
informative, argumentative, and suggestive of the future directions
of research. This is a timely and pioneering volume that offers
many creative insights into the problem of measurement. It will be
of considerable interest and use to academics, practitioners, and
policymakers." (G. Senthil Kumar, Voluntas, 2004)
From the reviews: "The contributors to the volume engage themselves
with basic issues of measurement such as availability and analysis
of data, extant knowledge and methods, methodological and empirical
possibilities, directions for future research, and the several
difficulties intrinsic to this enterprise. ??? The essays ??? are
informative, argumentative, and suggestive of the future directions
of research. This is a timely and pioneering volume that offers
many creative insights into the problem of measurement. It will be
of considerable interest and use to academics, practitioners, and
policymakers." (G. Senthil Kumar, Voluntas, 2004)
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