Cases in Innovative Nonprofits: Organizations That Make a Difference

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Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Understanding Nonprofit Social Innovation 1. Social Innovation: Definitions, Clarifications, and a New Model - Ram A. Cnaan and Diane Vinokur-Kaplan 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation and Social Mission Organizations: Towards a Conceptualization - Bjorn Schmitz Part 2: Innovation and New Nonprofit Organizations 3. Welfare Reform Liaison Project (WRLP): From Job Training to Community Development - Robert J. Wineburgh and Odell Cleveland 4. HelpHopeLive: Meeting Financial Needs in Medical Crises - Ram A. Cnaan and Lynne Coughlin Samson 5. Cafe au Play: Creating a Family Centered Social Space in Portland, Oregon - Charles Heying 6. The Mind Trust: Innovations in Urban Education - Wolfgang Bielefeld 7. GiveIndia: Web Donations in an Emerging Philanthropic Market - Micheal L. Shier and Femida Handy 8. Personal, Societal, and Political Conditions of Successful Innovations: A Case Study of the Difficult Survival of the Social Innovation Foundation (Hungary) - Gabor Hegyesi, Katalin Talyigas, and Jon Van Til 9. Resto VanHarte: A Dutch Restaurant Assisting Others to Overcome Social Isolation - Lucas Meijs 10. Seacology: A Win-Win Collaboration to Protect Island Environments and Peoples - Bruce Sievers and Henry Jones 11. Dialogue in the Dark: Mainstreaming Blind People in Germany - Andreas Schroer 12. Krembo Wings: A Youth Organization for Children With Disabilities in Israel - Michal Almog-Bar Part 3: Innovation Through Collaboration 13. The Center for Rural Development in Appalachia: Linking 45 Counties for Better Service Delivery - Margaret F. Sloan 14. Living Cities: Reinventing Philanthropy to Serve Poor Communities - Avis C. Vidal 15. Overcoming Constraints in the U.S. Human Services System: How New York City Uses Collaboration to Encourage Innovation - Lauren Miltenberger Part 4: Innovation Within Existing Nonprofit Organizations 16. The YMCA: A Pioneer of Organizational Innovations - Martti Muukkonen 17. Helping Social Change to Bloom: Two Capacity-Building Innovations at Third Sector New England - Diane Vinokur-Kaplan and Jonathan Spack 18. Metro TeenAIDS: Serve and Advocate - Alan J. Abramson, Lehn M. Benjamin, and Stefan Toepler 19. Empowering Social Workers in Social Service Organizations in South Korea - Chulhee Kang and Sangchul Lee 20. Social Innovations in Mature, Faith-Based, Social Service Nonprofit Organizations: Two German Case Studies - Bjorn Schmitz Part 5: Lesson Learned 21. Lessons Learned: Themes Observed from Successful Nonprofit Social Innovations - Diane Vinokur-Kaplan and Ram A.Cnaan About the Authors Index