ABSTRACT
Relations between the for-profit and the third sector are multifaceted. Generally, many for-profit businesses support the endeavours of third sector organisations in a great variety of ways. The business seeks no or minimal acknowledgment for its gift; it seeks to impose no constraints on the recipient organisation and it may even ask for its identity to remain anonymous. The publicity that a business receives from associating itself with a nonprofit in these ways can have a number of purposes. Relationships between the for-profit and third sectors are bedevilled by stereotypes. Many employees of public-serving nonprofits are deeply suspicious of business. Competition between the third sector and for-profits occurs in two ways. The first is where the core activity of a group of third sector organisations is also the core activity of some for-profits. The second is when a business venture begun or inherited by the third sector organisation directly competes with for-profits.
