The paper reports and reflects on the development, over the period 1997 - 2004, of a typology and growth model of nonprofit organisations, through an iterative research process involving academics, practitioners and undergraduate students. The conceptual development of the models is first...

This report presents the first findings from the Project to Map Nonprofit Organisations in Ireland carried out by the Centre for Nonprofit Management at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. The nonprofit sector is becoming increasingly prominent in everyday discourse. Some of the...

The author is studying social entrepreneurs/voluntary actors in an Irish context. The aim of the study is to investigate the origins and expressions of the motivations, meanings and understandings of individuals who pursue voluntary or non-profit organisational activity as the main socially...

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the major nonprofit policy issues in Ireland from the perspectives of government, nonprofits themselves and society generally. We have identified the key areas for examination as: economic, legislative, political and cultural contexts of...