Models of Health and Human Services in the Nonprofit Sector

Book excerpt: Abstract: This conference examined emerging models and approaches to health and human services. Part I addresses issues of management in nonprofit organizations (changing roles of private/nonprofit organizations, board-staff relationships, legal issues and high-tech computerization). Part II deals with economics and the not-for-profit sector (contracting, private-nonprofit relationships, and "new economics"). Part III provides a broader perspective on social movements and community development (definition, transformation, and relationship between ideals and action). Part IV focuses on public policy research in the nonprofit sector (joint venturing, strategic marketing, and franchising). Part V presents models for volunteering in health and human services (training, evaluation and development). Part VI raises a number of key ethical and philosophical issues in health and human services (compatibility of democracy and bureaucracy, ethnics of not-for-profit managers, and moral reasoning of human service professionals)