Cases in Innovative Nonprofits provides you with current comparative case studies of innovative non-profit organizations that are meeting the needs of humanity around the world. It provides inspiring examples of social entrepreneurs who have instituted new services to meet the needs of both new and long standing social problems. Each case features either an unidentified need and its successful response, or an existing need that was tackled in a unique and innovative manner.

By using a simple, identical format for each case, this text facilitates your learning through comparative review, providing a deeper understanding about the complexity and steps required to achieve non-profit social innovation.

KEY FEATURES:

• Each case is based on a common outline that allows you to easily navigate them and make comparisons


• Concluding "Lessons Learned" chapter provides a summary of the themes that emerge from the cases and gives you an outline of the practical dimensions involved in carrying out non-profit innovations


• A broad array of non-profit innovations from around the world provides a balanced picture of the sector and shows commonalities between cases that come from different countries, regions, and fields


• Discussion questions at the end of each case ask you to reflect and analyse the innovation as well think creatively and initiate successful innovations.

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 - Björn 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. Café 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) - Gábor Hegyesi, Katalin Talyigás, 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 Schröer
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 - Björn 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