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The Rise of the Social Enterprise : How Social Enterprises are Changing Company Law Worldwide

Timmerman, Levinus - 2014

This paper explains the increasing popularity of social entrepreneurship and analyzes its company law consequences. Faced with tight budgets, governments are looking to the private sector to develop businesses that serve the interests of the public. Social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum as...

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A Sea Change in the Social Sector - Examining Earned-Income Ventures and Entrepreneurial Nonprofits in Rhode Island

Marbin, Seth J. - 2013

Nonprofits across the nation are increasingly launching earned-income ventures to support their social missions. Even though this is not a new strategy for many nonprofits, for the sector as a whole it is a fundamental shift from traditional sources of revenue. This study identifies and...

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Building Public Services Through the Nonprofit Sector : Exploring the Risks of Rapid, Government Funded Growth in Human Service Organizations

McGinnis, Jasmine - 2014

As the public sector increasingly relies on grants to nonprofits to provide human services, both public and nonprofit partners are exploring the implications of this relationship in order to ensure the best possible outcomes. A key issue that has emerged in the public sector literature is the...

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Regional strategies for the social economy : examples from France, Spain, Sweden and Poland

OECD; Europäische Union - 2020

This paper explores the linkages between regional strategies for the social economy and regional development in four EU countries: France, Spain, Sweden and Poland. It provides a comparative perspective of regional strategies for the social economy (Section 1), based on i) the level of...

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The Polish model of a social economy with the financial aspects and profits at background : from the general theory to practice

Chojnacka, Katarzyna J. - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 15 (2019) 3, pp. 29-46

This article contains main trends, assumptions and thesis about the social economy in Poland, which the author agree with. The main goal of it, is to bring together fundamental facts depicting the situation of the social economy in Poland (in theory and in practice) with the conditions that must...

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Membership Organization’s Social Capital and the Impact on Nonprofit Sector Management

Subedi, Meena; Farazmand, Ali - 2022

Social capital depicts the extent of mutual trust in a jurisdiction. This study examines the impact of social capital on nonprofit density and provides evidence that the social capital of a county is positively associated with the growth of nonprofit density in the county. The total number of...

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Examining youth outcomes of African American-led nonprofits

Gooden, Susan Tinsley; Evans, Lindsey L.; Perkins, … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 47 (2018), pp. 34-54

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Building Public Sector-NGO Partnerships for Urban Rch Services

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

The quest for better livelihood opportunities has led to large-scale migration and the mushrooming of slums in several Indian cities. Unfortunately, a significant section of the urban poor do not have access to many of the benefits of urban development. It emerges from the re-analysis of Madhya...

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Strategies against youth unemployment: an international comparison

Groth, Claus (ed.); Maennig, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2001

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Youth homelessness, support services, and employment in England

Drydakis, Nick - 2025

homeless youth are associated with their employment outcomes. Data from 402 young people living in 21 housing accommodation …-native and non-heterosexual homeless youth were overrepresented in housing accommodation and experienced lower employment rates … compared to native and heterosexual homeless youth. The estimates indicated that employment levels among homeless youth were …

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