Nonprofit fund-raising in competitive donor markets

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 204-224

  Thornton, Jeremy ^a  

^a SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Fund raising; Market structure; Nonprofit

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646425051     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764005285951     Document Type: Article

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