This final chapter clarifies the relationships between, on the one hand, the transformations in the third sector and civil society and, on the other hand, the general theme of everyday association-making. It seeks to provide an answer to a fundamental question: what can investigating forms of association-making tell us about the tasks performed by the contemporary third sector? Drawing on the previous sections, which have argued that the darkest narratives prevailing today about the third sector (such as its depoliticisation and the decline of its role as a social antenna) are largely informed by a general neglect of everyday association-making, it shows how focusing attention back on this dimension brings to light two aspects. Firstly, the metaphorising task exercised by the styles of association-making, and secondly, the counter-intuitive political role played by the third sector, relating not to transforming the taken-for-granted into public problems but the opposite: making new forms of interaction and styles of collective action ‘natural’ and practicable.