October 19, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Nonprofit Sector in Canada: Roles and Relationships
Edited by Keith G. Banting
As the Canadian government reduces spending, nonprofit organizations are springing up across the country to provide a wide variety of services, writes the editor of this volume, Keith G. Banting, director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. From homeless shelters and food banks to arts councils and advocacy groups, he explains, Canadians have built programs to supply the services that their government no longer provides.
The book, compiled by the Nonprofit Sector Research Initiative at Queen’s University, is a collection of research papers that describe the growing, multidimensional nonprofit sector in Canada.
Contributors explore the scope of Canada’s nonprofit groups, the roles that various organizations play in society, and the nonprofit world’s relationship with business and government. They cover such specific topics as the role of religious organizations in providing social services and the accountability dilemmas facing all nonprofit organizations.
Accompanying tables and figures identify the types of Canadian charities and provide financial data.
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 3430 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X9; (514) 398-2555; mqup@mqup.mcgill.ca; http://www.mcgill.ca/mqup; 266 pages; $55 cloth, $22.95 paper; I.S.B.N. 0-88911-815-9, cloth, 0-88911-813-2, paper.
