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"This article explores the impact of state reforms to increase customer authority in social care at a time of public sector austerity in Scotland. The article focuses on the implications of these reforms for state–non-profit relations and the latter's employment policies. The study proposes a theoretical framework to explore these themes using insights from the ‘hollowing out' thesis and the customer-orientated bureaucracy concept. Non-profits respond to increased customer authority from personalization and public expenditure cuts by adopting more competitive relations with each other. They also introduce contradictory ‘soft' and ‘hard' Human Resource Management (HRM) reforms. Workers face multiple demands to be more flexible and exhibit commitment to ‘fit' with customer needs. Despite some increases in skills, the increasing influence of customer authority and efficiency savings mean employees experience multiple degradations in employment conditions affecting pay, job security, skills and work intensification."

"Perhaps now more than ever, effective marketing is crucial in successfully managing a nongovernmental organization. A nonprofit organization that is effectively using marketing strategies is better positioned to present a consistent and memorable image of its cause to policy makers, funding organizations, individual contributors, and society at large. A successfully marketed charity is able to distinguish itself from other organizations in the continually growing nonprofit sector. It is able to share its cause and importance to the public, demonstrating its value, while communicating its unique purpose and mission. Nonprofit Marketing explains marketing management concepts and applications in nonprofit, charitable and nongovernmental organizations in an easy-to-follow style. Marketing concepts are clearly presented, then supported with real-world examples.It offers examples from around the world and is applicable to all international nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations."

"Offering a new framework for nonprofit brand management, this book presents the Brand IDEA (Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity). The framework eschews traditional, outdated brand tenets of control and competition largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission and based on a participatory process, shared values, and the development of key partnerships. The results are nonprofit brands that create organizational cohesion and generate trust in order to build capacity and drive social impact. The book explores in detail how nonprofit organizations worldwide are developing and implementing new ways of thinking about and managing their organizational brands."

" Researchers have highlighted the importance of the nonprofit sector, its continued growth, and a relative lack of literature particularly related to nonprofit organizational values. Therefore, this study investigates organizational culture in a human services nonprofit organization. The relationship between person-organization value congruence and employee and volunteer job-related attitudes is examined (N = 227). Following initial qualitative enquiry, confirmatory factor analyses of the Competing Values Framework and additional values revealed five dimensions of organizational values. The relationship between value congruence, and employee and volunteers' job-related attitudes was examined using polynomial regression techniques. Analyses revealed that for employees, job-related attitudes were influenced strongly by organization values ratings, particularly when exceeding person ratings of the same values. For volunteers, person value ratings exceeding organization value ratings were especially detrimental to their job-related attitudes. Findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications."

"Alors que le « rêve américain » n'a rien perdu de son attraction, Nicolas Duvoux a entrepris une enquête ethnographique auprès de fondations philanthropiques et du tissu associatif qui tentent de pallier la déliquescence des quartiers pauvres et minoritaires d'une grande métropole du nord-est des États-Unis : Boston. Véritable laboratoire des sciences sociales du XXIe siècle, Boston, mieux qu'aucune autre, fait ressortir le spectacle de la coexistence de la richesse et de l'ouverture d'esprit avec la pauvreté et la ségrégation raciale. L'enquête s'est déroulée auprès de ceux qui vivent dans l'envers du mythe étasunien, fait de pauvreté, de marginalité sociopolitique et de violence, comme auprès de ceux qui leur viennent en aide. Elle permet de cerner la forme et les limites de l'organisation communautaire qui cherche à se recréer autour du don philanthropique. Elle montre comment, sur les débris du ghetto, des philanthropes cherchent à régénérer la communauté indispensable pour faire vivre le rêve américain et justifier leur propre réussite."