Focusing on legal, cultural and socio-economic factors, this volume considers the reasons for which institutions of higher education and NGOs fail to cooperate as frequently and effectively as one might expect, comparing the Polish case with the lan...Loe edasi...
Political Species expertly argues that evolutionary biology provides important insight for analyzing the proliferation of private actors/organizations in domestic and global politics. Ronit emphasizes that individuals are affected by and contribute...Loe edasi...
This fully revised directory of international foundations, trusts, charitable and grantmaking NGOs and other similar non-profit institutions provides a comprehensive picture of foundation activity on a worldwide scale....Loe edasi...
This book is crafted from interviews with nonprofit managers and directors and the writings of Martin Buber, Peter Drucker, Shalom Schwartz, and others. The book is written in an informal first-person style, utilizing humor that will allow the reade...Loe edasi...
This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum childrens participation in NGO programs that centres childrens narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50 of the population is under the age of 25....Loe edasi...
Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and...Loe edasi...
Tackling Amnesia in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and rich empirical evidence to explore how development organizations learn, or fail to learn, from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning or...Loe edasi...
The number of religious NGOs (RNGOs) engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years. This volume examines whether the RNGOs involvement polarizes political debates at the UN or facilitates agreement on policy issues....Loe edasi...
This publication provides an unparalleled guide to the foundations, trusts, charitable and grantmaking NGOs, and other not-for-profit organizations of the world. It provides a comprehensive picture of third sector activity on a global scale....Loe edasi...
Based on studies of transnational activism, this volume examines the transnational social and environmental advocacy of foreign NGOs in China over the last thirty years. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork in China and archival work in the United Sta...Loe edasi...
NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy is an empirically and theoretically rich account of how international non-governmental organisations produce knowledge of and formulate understandings about the world around them....Loe edasi...
This book draws upon the personal stories of social entrepreneurs in China, as well as their supporters and beneficiaries, in order to examine what the rapid growth of social entrepreneurship reveals about Chinas complex and dynamic society in the...Loe edasi...
The editors of this book have persuaded PR experts from the UK and around the world, and from a variety of PR specialisms operating across different organisational forms, to share their knowledge, experience and some of their secrets....Loe edasi...
This book examines the often discordant relationship between states and international NGOs working in the humanitarian sector. This book will be a key resource for professionals and policy makers working within international humanitarian operations,...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two NGO coalitions advocating against the Xayaburi hydro...Loe edasi...
This book provides an urgent insight into how state authorities are currently interacting with NGOs. It brings together the most recent research covering three broad themes, namely the conceptualizations and subsequent functions of NGOs; state-NGO e...Loe edasi...
