TY - GEN T1 - Third-sector development : making up for the market A1 - Gunn, Christopher Eaton LA - English PP - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1036886157 AB - 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. This book helps move thinking about the third sector beyond traditional nonprofits centered on education, health care, and charity, and into the realm of often smaller, dynamic organizations that engage in collective entrepreneurship. Throughout, Gunn illustrates how organizations founded with little in the way of financial resources have made substantial contributions to economic development and general well-being in the communities they serve and from which they arise. 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. OP - 218 CN - HD2769.2.U6 G86 2004 SN - 9781501725333 SN - 1501725335 SN - 0801439914 SN - 0801488818 SN - 9780801439919 SN - 9780801488818 KW - Nonprofit organizations : United States. KW - Non-governmental organizations : United States. KW - Cooperation : United States. KW - Human services : United States. KW - United States : Economic policy. KW - United States : Social policy. KW - United States : Cultural policy. KW - Associations sans but lucratif : États-Unis. KW - Organisations non gouvernementales : États-Unis. KW - Services sociaux : États-Unis. KW - États-Unis : Politique économique. KW - États-Unis : Politique sociale. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Economic Policy. KW - Cooperation KW - Cultural policy KW - Economic policy KW - Human services KW - Non-governmental organizations KW - Nonprofit organizations KW - Social policy KW - United States ER -