Cases in Innovative Nonprofits provides you with current comparative case studies of innovative non-profit organizations that are meeting the needs of humanity around the world. It provides inspiring examples of social entrepreneurs who have instituted new services to meet the needs of both new and long standing social problems. Each case features either an unidentified need and its successful response, or an existing need that was tackled in a unique and innovative manner. By using a simple, identical format for each case, this text facilitates your learning through comparative review, providing a deeper understanding about the complexity and steps required to achieve non-profit social innovation. KEY FEATURES: Each case is based on a common outline that allows you to easily navigate them and make comparisons Concluding "Lessons Learned" chapter provides a summary of the themes that emerge from the cases and gives you an outline of the practical dimensions involved in carrying out non-profit innovations A broad array of non-profit innovations from around the world provides a balanced picture of the sector and shows commonalities between cases that come from different countries, regions, and fields Discussion questions at the end of each case ask you to reflect and analyse the innovation as well think creatively and initiate successful innovations.
Ram Cnaan is a professor and the senior associate dean at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Social Policy & Practice. He is also the director of the Program for the Research on Social Policy and Religion. He served as ARNOVA president from 2008 to 2010. He is the author of numerous publications on faith-based organizations, volunteering, and social policy. Diane Vinokur-Kaplan is an associate professor of human services management at the University Of Michigan School Of Social Work in Ann Arbor. She has published in such areas as work motivation, job training and job satisfaction and interdisciplinary teams. She has also served on the board of ARNOVA. . Her current research is on non-profit co-locations, where separate organizations reside under one roof and share services.
Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Understanding Nonprofit Social Innovation 1. Social Innovation: Definitions, Clarifications, and a New Model - Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Social Mission Organizations: Towards a Conceptualization - Bjoern Schmitz Part 2: Innovation and New Nonprofit Organizations 3. Welfare Reform Liaison Project (WRLP): From Job Training to Community Development - Robert J. Wineburgh and Odell Cleveland 4. HelpHopeLive: Meeting Financial Needs in Medical Crises - Ram A. Cnaan and Lynne Coughlin Samson 5. Cafe au Play: Creating a Family Centered Social Space in Portland, Oregon - Charles Heying 6. The Mind Trust: Innovations in Urban Education - Wolfgang Bielefeld 7. GiveIndia: Web Donations in an Emerging Philanthropic Market - Micheal L. Shier and Femida Handy 8. Personal, Societal, and Political Conditions of Successful Innovations: A Case Study of the Difficult Survival of the Social Innovation Foundation (Hungary) - Gabor Hegyesi, Katalin Talyigas, and Jon Van Til 9. Resto VanHarte: A Dutch Restaurant Assisting Others to Overcome Social Isolation - Lucas Meijs 10. Seacology: A Win-Win Collaboration to Protect Island Environments and Peoples - Bruce Sievers and Henry Jones 11. Dialogue in the Dark: Mainstreaming Blind People in Germany - Andreas Schroeer 12. Krembo Wings: A Youth Organization for Children With Disabilities in Israel - Michal Almog-Bar Part 3: Innovation Through Collaboration 13. The Center for Rural Development in Appalachia: Linking 45 Counties for Better Service Delivery - Margaret F. Sloan 14. Living Cities: Reinventing Philanthropy to Serve Poor Communities - Avis C. Vidal 15. Overcoming Constraints in the U.S. Human Services System: How New York City Uses Collaboration to Encourage Innovation - Lauren Miltenberger Part 4: Innovation Within Existing Nonprofit Organizations 16. The YMCA: A Pioneer of Organizational Innovations - Martti Muukkonen 17. Helping Social Change to Bloom: Two Capacity-Building Innovations at Third Sector New England - Diane Vinokur-Kaplan and Jonathan Spack 18. Metro TeenAIDS: Serve and Advocate - Alan J. Abramson, Lehn M. Benjamin, and Stefan Toepler 19. Empowering Social Workers in Social Service Organizations in South Korea - Chulhee Kang and Sangchul Lee 20. Social Innovations in Mature, Faith-Based, Social Service Nonprofit Organizations: Two German Case Studies - Bjoern Schmitz Part 5: Lesson Learned 21. Lessons Learned: Themes Observed from Successful Nonprofit Social Innovations - Diane Vinokur-Kaplan and Ram A.Cnaan About the Authors Index
