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The upsurge of research on the voluntary sector during the past decade has been extraordinary. We now have databases and detailed studies of nonprofit activities of a quantity and quality that few would have predicted when the Independent Sector hosted its first Spring Research Forum in 1983. To date, the majority of this work has focused on the nonprofits themselves: their numbers, their activities, their managerial concerns, and the effect of government cutbacks. However, far less attention has been devoted to what might be termed the human equation: the social, political, and economic impact of giving and voluntarism.
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McCarthy, K.D. (2002). Women and Philanthropy. In: Flynn, P., Hodgkinson, V.A. (eds) Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0533-4_9
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