The state of nonprofit America

Lester M. Salamon, editor

Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffetedby four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism.Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among theseimpulses. Understanding this force field and the factors shaping its dynamics thusbecomes central to understanding the future of particular organizations and of thenonprofit sector as a whole.In this second edition of an immensely successful volume, Lester Salamon and hiscolleagues offer an overview of the current state of America's nonprofit s

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Year of publication:	c2012 ; 2nd ed
Other Persons:	Salamon, Lester M. (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press
Subject:	Nonprofit-Organisation \| Nonprofit organization

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xi, 708 p) ill
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Preface; Part 1: Overview; The Resilient Sector: The Future of Nonprofit America; Part 2: Major Fields; Health Care; Education and Training; Social Services; Arts and Culture; Housing and Community Development; Environmental Organizations; International Assistance; Religious Congregations; Civic Participation and Advocacy; Infrastructure Organizations; Foundations and Corporate Philanthropy; Individual Giving and Volunteering; Part 3: Major Challenges; Commercialization, Social Ventures, and For-Profit Competition Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit RelationsAccountability in the Nonprofit Sector; Demographic and Technological Imperatives; Nonprofit Workforce Dynamics; For Whom and for What? Investigating the Role of Nonprofits as Providers to the Neediest; Contributors; Index; Back Cover Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-8157-0330-9 ; 978-0-8157-0330-3 ; 978-0-8157-2436-0 ; 978-0-8157-0330-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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