Preface -- Purpose, policy, theory, definitions and context -- Designing, empowering and engaging the nonprofit to lessen the burden of government -- Empowering the nonprofit to lessen the burden of government -- Nonprofits as doers in reducing the burden of government -- Nonprofit as financiers...

This research collection illustrates the wide range of methodologies and methods available for the evaluation of public programs. All these methods address the benefits of the programs and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits and their measures vary greatly across the...