Provides a practical tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, with a particular focus on rural areas. Provides guidance on who to target, how to establish and maintain savings and lending schemes, what kind of training to provide, gender concerns and cost...

The article considers proper legislation as an essential prerequisite for actualization of NPOs’ comparative advantages. Restrictions imposed on NPOs are reasonable if they are compensated by benefits from greater trust. The rigidity of constrains and requirements should be optimized while...

This paper models faculty participation in university decision-making and the effects on enrollment, academic quality and non-academic quality. The model predicts that faculty participation positively academic quality and non-academic quality. The model predicts that faculty participation...

This study explores the concept of death with an ethnographic study of a worldwide Buddhist organization. Buddhism deals with the elementary questions of life and death in a manner that can alleviate the fear of death and the resultant anxiety; it illuminates the eternity of life. The ebb and...

Среди привлеченных источников финансирования некоммерческих организаций особое место занимает институт эндаумента, широко распространённый за рубежом. Его...

This paper makes an attempt to explore some new dimensions of the emerging nonprofit finance theory in light of the co-management and co-production between government and nonprofit organization. Relying mainly on available literature of existing schools that explains economic rationale for...

This paper is the author’s second attempt to explore some new dimensions of the emerging nonprofit finance theory in light of the co-management and co-production between government and nonprofit organization. Relying mainly on available literature of existing schools that explains economic...

This paper asks whether nonprofit organization can have a positive rationale in an economy based on the division of labor, taking into account that the process of the division of labor occurs through profit-motivated economic behavior. By reconsidering existing economic theories of nonprofit...

Many governments and nongovernmental organizations have adopted policies to promote the growth of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The appropriate level and form of support for MFIs are discussed in this paper on the basis of a review of key MFI characteristics. Governments are also responsible...

How could we explain that the Societé Coopérative d?Intérêt Collectif (public interest coops), set up by a recent law in 2001, did not turn out the way expected? Even though in France a lot of actors supported and asked for the constitution of a ?social enterprise?, only a hundred SCIC or so...