Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly June 2013 Issue

• Femida Handy, Jeffrey L. Brudney, and Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, From the Editors’ Desk

• Jo Anne Schneider, Introduction to the Symposium: Faith-Based Organizations in Context

• Wolfgang Bielefeld and William Suhs Cleveland, Defining Faith-Based Organizations and Understanding Them Through Research

• Wolfgang Bielefeld and William Suhs Cleveland, Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

• İpek Göçmen, The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Social Welfare Systems: A comparison of France, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

• Jo Anne Schneider, Comparing Stewardship Across Faith-Based Organizations

• Patricia A. Wittberg, Faith-Based Umbrella Organizations: Implications for Religious Identity

• Jill Witmer Sinha, Unintended Consequence of the Faith-Based Initiative: Organizational Practices and Religious Identity Within Faith-Based Human Service Organizations

Article

• Khaldoun AbouAssi, Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: NGO Response to Shifting Funding Priorities

Research Note

• Joanne G. Carman and Rebecca Nesbit, Founding New Nonprofit Organizations: Syndrome or Symptom?