Financing nonprofits and other social enterprises : a benefits approach Benefits theory connects an organizations mission the public and private benefits it produces and the societal groups that it benefits to an appropriate income mix. This book applies benefits theory to the financing of nonprofit and other social purpose organizations to guide managers and leaders towards finding the best mix of income sources for their organizations to help educate future managers about resource development and to stimulate additional research on the financing of nonprofits and other forms of social enterprise. Individual chapters are devoted to organizations primarily reliant on earned income gifts government support and investment income respectively as well as to organizations that are well diversified in their sources of operating support. Each type of income as well as mixed income portfolios are analyzed in depth. Detailed case studies of contemporary social purpose organizations are discussed throughout the book and templates are provided to help leaders apply benefits theory to analyze the income opportunities and portfolios of their own organizations. Comprehensive and practitioner friendly this book is suitable not only for teaching graduate and undergraduate students in non profit management social enterprise public administration and business management but also for informing practicing managers teachers and researchers and funders of social purpose organizations Contents: Foreword by Bill Bolling 1. Introduction 2. Cross currents in SPO finance 3. Benefits theory 4. The nature of benefits and their financing 5. Fee reliant SPOs 6. Contributions reliant spos 7. Government reliant SPOs 8. Investment income reliant SPOs 9. Mixed income strategies 10. Capital financing 11. Income portfolios 12. Benefits thinking : ideas and tools for practice Index.