Growing Civil Society
Subtitle: From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space (Philanthropic Studies)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780253337153
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; Non-profitmaking organizations; Non-Profit Organizations Management; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Sociology; USA; Philanthropy & Charity; General; Nonprofit Organizations & Charities; Charities; Nonprofit organizations; United States; Voluntarism
First sentence: When I think of what the third sector really means in our communities, I recall the experience of Florence Alberta MacLean of Gananoque, Ontario.
Description: "Growing Civil Society explores the role of voluntary action and nonprofit organization in contemporary America. Key to the book is the concept of "third space," which provides an important tool for the construction of civil society.

The third space is not independent from society's major institutions, but exists in dynamic interdependence with them, linking individuals in their home bases of family and community to the larger governmental and economic structures within which all citizens, workers, and consumers learn to seek their way in modern society."--BOOK JACKET.