Grassroots AssociationsGrassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he sees as integral to a postmodern society moving towards participatory democracy, self-determinism and individual choice. |
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... maps of the VNPS by lacking GAs , but they also leave out half of the paid - staff VG flatland . The paid - staff VG maps that exist are , thus , a biased sample even of these larger and more visible VGs , let alone of the whole VNPS ...
... maps , with attention also given to the substan- tial ( roughly 50 % ) incompleteness of IRS listings even regarding larger paid- staff nonprofits as well as the far greater incompleteness ( missing 90 % to 95 % ) regarding GAS . The ...
David Horton Smith. maps lacking very many GAs ( e.g. , Gronbjerg , Kimmick , and Salamon , 1985 , for the Chicago area ; Salamon , Altschuler , and Myllyluoma , 1990 , for the Baltimore , Maryland , area ) . Few maps ( if any ) trying ...
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Definitions and Metaphors | 7 |
Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
7 | 41 |
Copyright | |
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Poverty and the Third Way Colin C Williams,Colin C. Williams,Jan Windebank No preview available - 2004 |