Non-profit organisations are enjoying an increasing amount of power and influence in Spain when it comes to raising citizen awareness on issues such as the environment, cooperation and human rights. However, they are gradually losing that aura of trust and credibility, due to their close links...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the most significant results of an extensive social research project on the public image of the Third Sector in Spain. The findings of an opinion survey applied to a statistically representative sample of the adult Spanish population is complemented by...

This article studies the role of the Third Sector when facing two current challenges for economy: unemployment and the crisis of the welfare state. It also tries to throw light on the current conceptual and terminological confusion concerning the Third Sector, since, according to the author,...

Based on the empirical investigations and in the literature on the topic, the work discusses the meaning of the innumerable popular experiences of economical production and of generation of rent that are disseminated in our country and also in other contexts. It endorse the perspective, suitable...