Third-sector Development: Making Up for the MarketCornell University Press, 2004 - 218 pages Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the normal operation of the market economy. These organizations comprise the third sector, which accounts for approximately 10 percent of U.S. economic activity. As part of the fastest growing sector in the economy, these dynamic organizations play an increasing role in strengthening local economies. In the United States, they help to compensate for a state that is, in Gunn's view, relatively disengaged from meeting basic human needs. After explaining why local development is a problem in such a wealthy and resource-rich country as the United States, Christopher Gunn profiles more than two dozen organizations ranging from child-care cooperatives to retirement communities, from co-housing "villages" to financial institutions. He also investigates public-policy changes that could strengthen this alternative sector's contribution to economic development. |
Table des matières
The Third Sector | 1 |
ThirdSector Scope Scale and Purpose | 17 |
Development and the Third Sector | 45 |
Food | 59 |
Housing | 75 |
Financial Services | 91 |
Health Care | 107 |
The Arts | 121 |
Other Basic Needs | 139 |
Support Organizations | 153 |
Public Policy for ThirdSector Development | 167 |
Developing a Future | 177 |
Notes | 189 |
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