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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... volunteer action for a given VG during some specified time period . These are , in essence , identical definitions ... groups so defined : ( a ) All - volunteer groups are defined as voluntary groups , 95 % or more of whose cumulative ...
David Horton Smith. quasi - volunteer action for the given VGs during a given time period . These groups have been termed " paid - staff nonprofits , " " voluntary agencies , " or sim- ply ( and nondiscriminatingly ) " nonprofit ...
... work of the groups done - paid - staff VGs . Volunteers might be pre- sent in service volunteer programs , but these are seen as less important than the paid - staff component of the organizations . Relative to GAs and supralocal vol- ...
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Definitions and Metaphors | 7 |
Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
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Poverty and the Third Way Colin C Williams,Colin C. Williams,Jan Windebank No preview available - 2004 |