This subject offers practitioners with experience of working or volunteering in nonprofit organisations a variety of theoretical insights into the nature and dynamics of the nonprofit sector and practical insights into the operations of nonprofit organisations. Particular attention will be paid to competing rationales for the existence of the nonprofit sector and its distinctiveness from the state and forprofit sectors. Specific aspects of nonprofit organisational structure, relationships, culture, environment, technologies, goals, values, resourcing, management and governance will be canvassed. The major forces driving change in the nonprofit sector, the directions of change and the impacts of change will also be examined. Students will actively analyse aspects of relevant parts of the nonprofit sector (and selected nonprofit organisations) with which they are familiar.