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Profiles of Nonprofit Startups and Nonprofit Entrepreneurs

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The nonprofit sector has been expanding rapidly, but little attention has been paid to the organizations that comprise the group of new market entrants. In 2010 more than 45,000 new nonprofits incorporated, braving crowded grant markets and grueling periods of organizational adolescence. Some reach revenues over $1 million within a couple of years.
David M. Van Slyke, Jesse D. Lecy
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Nonprofits

2022
This chapter will guide the reader through the development and growth of a community-based nonprofit organization with a sustainable approach to the initial core values. This chapter serves as an informed roadmap for clinicians interested in pursuing the development of their own nonprofit.
Melissa Hicks, Meredith Cooper
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Nonprofits for Nonprofits: Three Essays on Nonprofit Infrastructure Organizations

2022
Nonprofit infrastructure organizations (NIOs) are critical for the sustainability of the nonprofit sector. They support the sector by providing training and consultation, facilitating network building, developing performance measures to ensure accountability, and advocating on behalf of the sector.
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The Views of Nonprofit Executives on Educating Nonprofit Managers

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 1998
AbstractExtraordinary nonprofit‐sector expansion has produced organizations with complex missions and operations, and the managers responsible for their effectiveness require adequate preparation. Although no single degree program stands out as the clear preference of nonprofit executives, we propose that certain organizational characteristics are ...
Peter J. Haas, Maynard G. Robinson
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Differential taxation of nonprofits and the commercialization of nonprofit revenues

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1998
The effects of the favorable tax treatment of nonprofit commercial activities are best understood in a framework that explicitly accounts for a number of interactions. These involve differential taxation of nonprofits and for-profits and of nonprofits’ “related” and “unrelated” activities; the preferences of nonprofit executives who may be averse to ...
Joseph J. Cordes, Burton A. Weisbrod
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The Power of Nonprofits: Mechanisms for Nonprofit Policy Influence

Public Administration Review, 2016
AbstractThe dramatic increase in public funding for nonprofit organizations has raised concerns about the potential disadvantages of a nonprofit sector that is too reliant on government funding. Using nonprofits to deliver public programs also presents risks for the public sector, but the question of nonprofit policy influence is largely absent from ...
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Nonprofits

2005
The door swung wide open and a dozen faces turned my way. The interview was for a science education story, but now it felt like a surprise party and I was the guest of honor. I had never been greeted for an interview by so many people. Here was a crowd around a long table.
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Profitable and Nonprofitable Drugs

New England Journal of Medicine, 1978
IN reaction to the thalidomide tragedy, Congress enacted the Kefauver-Harris amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act in 1962 that considerably increased the number of preclinical and clinica...
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Professionalism and Nonprofit Organizations

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1984
Many professionals prefer to work in nonprofit organizations, rather than in either for-profit or bureaucratic organizations. This preference suggests that nonprofits may be successful in reducing the tension between professional principles and institutional requirements. Professionals in for-profit organizations must submit to the control of a manager
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Commercialism in nonprofit hospitals

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1998
The private nonprofit hospital is the dominant organizational form in the U.S. hospital industry. Various reasons have been advanced for its high market share. As hospitals undergo massive changes due in large part to changes in payment practices, there is widespread concern that nonprofit hospitals may become less committed to noncommercial ...
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