March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 26m
English
Steven Rathgeb Smith
During the last 40 years, government contracting with nonprofit organizations for the delivery of important public services has risen sharply. The widespread interest in the United States and other countries in contracting with nonprofit organizations reflects many factors: pressure to reduce the costs of public service; broad interest in voluntarism, social innovation, and citizen and community engagement; and public management reform that seeks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public services through privatization, more competition, individual choice, and decentralization (Grønbjerg and Smith, 2021; Zimmer and Smith, 2021). Nonprofits also represent ...