The state of nonprofit America / Lester M. Salamon, editor. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002. - xi, 563 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I, Overview. The resilient sector : the state of nonprofit America / Lester M. Salamon -- Part II, Major Fields. Health / Bradford H. Gray and Mark Schlesinger -- Education and training / Donald M. Stewart, Pearl Rock Kane, and Lisa Scruggs -- Social services / Steven Rathgeb Smith -- Arts and culture / Margaret J. Wyszomirski -- Housing and community development / Avis C. Vidal -- International assistance / Shepard Forman and Abby Stoddard -- Religious congregations / Mark Chaves -- Civic participation and advocacy / Elizabeth T. Boris and Jeff Krehely -- Infrastructure organizations / Alan J. Abramson and Rachel McCarthy -- Foundations and corporate philanthropy / Leslie Lenkowsky -- Individual giving and volunteering / Virginia A. Hodgkinson with Kathryn E. Nelson and Edward D. Sivak Jr.-- Part III, Major challenges. Commercialization, social ventures. and for-profit competition / Dennis R. Young and Lester M. Salamon -- Devolution, marketization, and the changing shape of government-nonprofit relations / Kirsten A. Gronbjerg and Lester M. Salamon -- Accountability and public trust / Evelyn Brody -- Demographic and technological imperatives / Atul Dighe -- For whom and for what? : the contributions of the nonprofit sector / William Diaz.

0815706243 (alk. paper) 0815706235 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Nonprofit organizations--United States.

HD 62.6 / .S734 2002