"The third edition of The Nonprofit Sector, this handbook fills a unique space in the nonprofit literature as the only volume aimed at furthering research in the field. Since the last edition, which has remained a core text in the field, the nonprofit sector has evolved and now overlaps to a...

Philanthropic projections : sending institutional logics abroad / Steven Heydemann and David C. Hammack -- Nongovernmental organizations and the making of the international community / Akira Iriye -- Philanthropy and the "perfect democracy" of rotary international / Brendan Goff -- Social...

Contents: Introduction to a research agenda for social finance / Othmar M. Lehner -- 1. Exploring impact investing's emergence in the philanthropic sector / Jessica Jones and Elizabeth Embry -- 2. A ladder to nowhere? A research agenda for funding social enterprise / J. Howard Kucher -- 3....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I History and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector -- Part II Nonprofits and the Marketplace -- Part III Nonprofits and the Polity -- Part IV Key Activities in the Nonprofit Sector -- Part V Who Participates...