Introduction. From welfare bureaucracies to welfare hybrids / David Billis ; Third sector organizations in a contradictory policy environment / Margaret Harris ; Towards a theory of hybrid organizations / David Billis ; The governance of hybrid organizations / Chris Cornforth and Roger Spear --
Hybridity in action. Volunteers in hybrid organizations : a marginalised majority? / Angela Ellis Paine, Nick Ockenden and Joanna Stuart ; Faith-based organizations and hybridity : a special case? / Colin Rochester and Malcolm Torry ; Community anchor organizations : sustainability and independence / Romayne Hutchison and Ben Cairns ; Social enterprises : challenges from the field / Mike Aiken ; Hybridity in partnership working : managing tensions and opportunities / Joann Howard and Marilyn Taylor ; Housing associations : agents of policy or profits in disguise? / David Mullins and Hal Pawson ; Encountering hybridity : lessons from individual experiences / David Lewis ; Revisiting the key challenges : hybridity, ownership and change / David Billis

Welfare has traditionally been provided by 'public', 'voluntary' and 'private' sector organizations. But what do these terms mean within a contemporary welfare landscape where organizations possess characteristics of more than one of these sectors? Is this hybridity eroding the unique qualities of these different sectors? Addressing a key social policy problem, this book analyses modern voluntary organizations