Research Catalog

Title

The nonprofit sector : a research handbook / edited by Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006], ©2006.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Powell, Walter W.
• Steinberg, Richard.

Description

xi, 659 pages : illustrations, map; 29 cm

Subject

• Nonprofit organizations > Management
• Nonprofit organizations
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The nonprofit sector in historical perspective : traditions of philanthropy in the west / Kevin C. Robbins -- 2. A historical overview of philanthropy, voluntary associations, and nonprofit organizations in the United States, 1600-2000 / Peter Dobkin Hall -- 3. Scope and dimensions of the nonprofit sector / Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle -- 4. The nonprofit sector in comparative perspective / Helmut K. Anheier and Lester M. Salamon -- 5. Economic theories of nonprofit organizations / Richard Steinberg -- 6. Nonprofit organizations and the market / Eleanor Brown and Al Slivinski -- 7. Work in the nonprofit sector / Laura Leete -- 8. Collaboration between corporations and nonprofit organizations / Joseph Galaskiewicz and Michelle Sinclair Colman -- 9. The constitution of citizens : political theories of nonprofit organizations / Elisabeth S. Clemens -- 10. Scope and theory of government-nonprofit relations / Steven Rathgeb Smith and Kirsten A. Gronbjerg -- 11. The legal framework for nonprofit organizations / Evelyn Brody -- 12. The federal tax treatment of charitable organizations / John Simon, Harvey Dale and Laura Chisolm -- 13. Nonprofit organizations and political advocacy / J. Craig Jenkins -- 14. International nongovernmental organizations / John Boli -- 15. Foundations / Kenneth Prewitt -- 16. nonprofit Organizations and health care : some paradoxes of persistent scrutiny / Mark Schlesinger and Bradford H. Gray -- 17. Social care and the nonprofit sector in the western developed world / Jeremy Kendall, Martin Knapp and Julien Forder -- 18. Nonprofit organizations and the intersectoral division of labor in the arts / Paul DiMaggio -- 19. Higher education : evolving forms and emerging markets / Patricia J. Gumport and Stuart K. Snydman -- 20. Religion and the nonprofit sector / Wendy Cadge and Robert Wuthnow -- 21. Nonprofit community organizations in poor urban settings : bridging institutional gaps for youth / Sarah Deschenes, Milbrey McLaughlin and Jennifer O'Donoghue -- 22. nonprofit membership associations / Mary Tschirhart -- 23. Charitable giving : how much, by whom, to what, and how? / John J. Havens, Mary A. O'Herlihy and Paul G. Schervish -- 24. Why do people give? / Lise Vesterlund -- 25. Nonprofit mission : constancy, responsiveness, or deflection? / Debra C. Minkoff and Walter W. Powell -- 26. Governance : research trends, gaps, and future prospects / Francie Ostrower and Melissa M. Stone -- 27. Commercial activity, technological change, and nonprofit mission / Howard P. Tuckman and Cyril F. Chang.

ISBN

0300109032 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006009076
• 9780300109030

OCLC

• OCM64897830
• SCSB-5930696

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries