Description
Book SynopsisActing as a comprehensive guide to understanding the nonprofit sector, this book takes a fresh look at the nonprofit sector and the power it has to use its growing visibility and strength.
Trade Review"An invaluable compendium: accurate, detailed, and up-to-date factsembedded in an incisive commentary on the history, impact, andprospects of the nonprofit sector. The marriage of information andunderstanding at its very best."
--Paul G. Schervish, director, Social Welfare Research Instituteand professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College
"Written by an outstanding scholar and leader in the nonprofitresearch field and rich with information, this masterful overviewof the voluntary, nonprofit sector in America successfully balancesaccuracy of presentation, comprehensiveness, and careful judgementswith a high degree of readability. This is one book that everyoneconcerned with American nonprofits and philanthropy should read tounderstand the nonprofit sector as a whole."
--David Horton Smith, founder, Association for Research onNonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
"The most comprehensive guidebook to America's magnificent butstill largely uncharted third, nonprofit, voluntary, independentsector, written by the person most qualified to guide us."
--Brian O'Connell, founding president, INDEPENDENT SECTOR
"Michael O'Neill has written a Baedeker for the nonprofit world.No traveler should leave home without having read it."
--Leslie Lenkowsky, professor, Center on Philanthropy, IndianaUniversity
Table of ContentsTables.
Preface.
The Author.
1. Nonprofit Nation.
2. Theories.
3. Religion.
4. Social Service.
5. Health Care.
6. Education and Research.
7. Advocacy.
8. Arts and Culture.
9. International.
10. Funders.
11. Mutual Benefit.
12. Prospects.
Appendix.
References.
Index.
