Table of Contents

Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Twenty Years of Change;  M.Harris, C.Rochester and P.Halfpenny
Public Policy, Social Policy and Voluntary Organisations;  N.Deakin
Tackling Social Exclusion: The Contribution of Voluntary Organisations;  D.Billis
Contracting: The Experience of Service Delivery Agencies;  D.W.Scott and L.Russell
Regulation: The Impact on Local Voluntary Action;  C.Rochester
Regeneration: The Role and Impact of Local Development Agencies;  S.P.Osborne and K.Ross
Partnership: Insiders and Outsiders;  M.Taylor
Providers of Care for Older People: The Experience of Community Care;  J. Kendall and M.Knapp
Grant-Making Foundations: Policy Shapers or Policy Takers?;  D.Leat
International Development NGOs: Policy Conflict and Convergence;  D.Lewis
Non-Profit Housing Agencies: 'Reading' and Shaping the Policy Agenda;  D.Mullins and M.Riseborough
Boards: Just Subsidiaries of the State?;  M.Harris
Volunteers: Making a Difference?;  J.Davis Smith
Users: At the Centre or the Sidelines?  M. Locke, P.Robson and S.Howlett
Voluntary Organisations in a Changing Policy Environment;  M.Harris

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Margaret Harris edited (with David Billis) "Voluntary Agencies: Challenges of Organisation and Management" and is the author of "Organising God's Work". She is International Editor of the journal "Nonprofit Management and Leadership". Colin Rochester is co-editor of "An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector" with Justin Davis.

About the Author

MARGARET HARRIS is Professor of Voluntary Sector Organisation at Aston Business School and was formerly Assistant Director of the Centre for Voluntary Organisation at the London School of Economics. She edited (with David Billis) Voluntary Agencies: Challenges of Organisation and Management and is the author of Organising God's Work. She is International Editor of the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership. - COLIN ROCHESTER is Consultancy Leader and Principal Lecturer, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Management, at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He has more than thirty years' experience of working in and with the voluntary and community sectors as practitioner, manager, consultant and researcher. He has published widely on sector issues and devised and co-edited An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector with Justin Davis Smith.