Section I: Philanthropy and the economy. Introduction to the issues -- Measuring the economic importance of non profits: what happens when methods change -- Size counts in the foundation world: the dilemma of absorptive capacity -- What you know or whom you know? Relationships matter --...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cascading crisis -- Recovery and near term economic prospects -- A multi-polar global economy -- Appendix 1: Case solutions -- Case A: Plunging resources and community-wide crisis -- Case B: Private resource strategies for the long haul -- Case C: Private...