Research Catalog

Title

The state of nonprofit America / Lester M. Salamon, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2012.

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Additional Authors

Salamon, Lester M.

Description

xi, 708 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Examines the private nonprofit sector and the tax-exempt institutions that make up this sector providing important services and benefits to all Americans, with histories behind different institutions and the forces and developments that have buffeted them and what they have done to retain their resilience"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Nonprofit organizations > United States
• Ideella föreningar
• Frivilligorganisationer
• Nonprofit organizations
• United States

Note

• "Published in collaboration with the Aspen Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1, Overview --1. The resilient sector : the future of nonprofit America / Lester M. Salamon -- Part II, Major fields -- 2. Health care / Bradford H. Gray and Mark Schlesinger -- 3. Education and training / Donald M. Stewart, Pearl Rock Kane, and Lisa Scruggs -- 4. Social services / Steven Rathgeb Smith -- 5. Arts and culture / Stefan Toepler and Margaret J. Wyszomirski -- 6. Housing and community development / Avis C. Vidal -- 7. Environmental organizations / Carmen Sirianni and Stefanie Sofer -- 8. International assistance / Abby Stoddard -- 9. Religious congregations / Mark Chaves -- 10. Civic participation and advocacy / Elizabeth T. Boris with Mathew Maronick -- 11. Infrastructure organizations / Alan J. Abramson and Rachel McCarthy -- 12. Foundations and corporate philanthropy / Leslie Lenkowsky -- 13. Individual giving and volunteering / Eleanor Brown and Daniel Martin -- Part III, Major challenges -- 14. Commercialization, social ventures and for-profit competition / Dennis R. Young, Lester M. Salamon, and Mary Clark Grinsfelder -- 15. Devolution, marketization and the changing shape of government-nonprofit relations / Kirsten A. Gronbjerg and Lester M. Salamon -- 16. Accountability in the nonprofit sector / Kevin P. Kearns -- 17. Demographic and technological imperatives / Atul Dighe -- 18. Nonprofit workforce dynamics / Marla Cornelius and Patrick Corvington -- 19. For whom and for what? Investigating the role of nonprofits as providers to the neediest / Pascale Joassart-Marcelli.

ISBN

• 9780815703303
• 0815703309

LCCN

2012011884

OCLC

• ocn782252383
• 782252383
• SCSB-13567974

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Columbia University Libraries