Introduction -- The stakes: what is the nonprofit sector and why do we need it -- Four impulses shaping the future of nonprofit America -- The challenges -- The opportunities -- The nonprofit response: a story of resilience -- The risks -- The road ahead: toward a renewal strategy for nonprofit...

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...