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The State of Nonprofit America

By: Lester M. Salamon

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The State of Nonprofit America

By: Lester M. Salamon

Examines the private nonprofit sector and the tax-exempt institutions that make up this sector providing important services and benefits to all Americans, with histories behind different institutions and the forces and developments that have buffeted them and what they have done to retain their resilience"--Provided by publisher.

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0815703309

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The Resilient Sector Revisited

The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

By: Lester M Salamon

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The Resilient Sector Revisited

The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

By: Lester M Salamon

Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial. Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions being buffeted by a withering set of challenges, yet still finding ways to survive and prosper. These challenges, however, are posing enormous risks to the historic character and role of nonprofits. Operating in an increasingly competitive environment in which traditional sources of government and philanthropic support are difficult to maintain, nonprofits have turned decisively to the market. In the process, however, they may be losing their raison d'être, sacrificing their most crucial missions, and risking loss of public understanding and support. To remedy this situation, Salamon recommends a "renewal strategy" for the nation's nonprofit sector that begins with a wider articulation and application of the sector's "value proposition"—the attributes that continue to make it deserving of the special privileges and benefits it enjoys. Salamon's pithy and accessible book is perfect for nonprofit boards, leaders of charitable foundations, government officials, and students of the nonprofit sector and of public policy, as well as anyone looking for guidance on how we go about dealing with public problems in America's increasingly collaborative system of governance.

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0815724268

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Explaining Civil Society Development

A Social Origins Approach

By: Lester M. Salamon,S. Wojciech Sokolowski,Megan A. Haddock

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Explaining Civil Society Development

A Social Origins Approach

By: Lester M. Salamon,S. Wojciech Sokolowski,Megan A. Haddock

How historically rooted power dynamics have shaped the evolution of civil society globally. The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations in the size and contours of the civil society sector around the world? Drawing on the project’s data, Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and their colleagues raise serious questions about the ability of the field’s currently dominant preference and sentiment theories to account for these variations in civil society development. Instead, using statistical and comparative historical materials, the authors posit a novel social origins theory that roots the variations in civil society strength and composition in the relative power of different social groupings and institutions during the transition to modernity. Drawing on the work of Barrington Moore, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and others, Explaining Civil Society Development provides insight into the nonprofit sector’s ability to thrive and perform its distinctive roles. Combining solid data and analytical clarity, this pioneering volume offers a critically needed lens for viewing the evolution of civil society and the nonprofit sector throughout the world.

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JHU Press

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1421422999

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Partners in Public Service

Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State

By: Lester M. Salamon

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Partners in Public Service

Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State

By: Lester M. Salamon

Approaching issues from a variety of perspectives, Salamon covers topics such as the theoretical basis of government-nonprofit cooperation and recent efforts to cut federal spending.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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0801849632

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The Resilient Sector

The State of Nonprofit America

By: Lester M. Salamon

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The Resilient Sector

The State of Nonprofit America

By: Lester M. Salamon

A Brookings Institution Press and the Aspen Institute publication The Resilient Sector makes available in an updated form the concise overview of the state of health of America's nonprofit organizations that Johns Hopkins scholar Lester Salamon recently completed as part of the "state of nonprofit America" project he undertook in cooperation with the Aspen Institute. Contrary to popular understanding, Salamon argues, America's nonprofit organizations have shown remarkable resilience in recent years in the face of a variety of difficult challenges, significantly re-engineering themselves in the process. But this very resilience now poses risks for the sector's continued ability to perform the tasks that we have long expected of it. The Resilient Sector offers nonprofit practitioners, policymakers, the press, and the public at large a lively assessment of this set of institutions that we have long taken for granted, but that the Frenchman Alexis de-Toqueville recognized to be "more deserving of our attention" than almost any other part of the American experiment.

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0815796099

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Defining the Nonprofit Sector

A Cross-national Analysis

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

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Defining the Nonprofit Sector

A Cross-national Analysis

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

The growth of the non-profit, voluntary or third sector has been widely recognized throughout the world. This text seeks to provide a definition and a common classification of the non-profit sector, while recognizing the great diversity of voluntarism internationally.

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Manchester University Press

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The Nonprofit Sector in the Developing World

A Comparative Analysis

By: Helmut K. Anheier,Lester M. Salamon

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The Nonprofit Sector in the Developing World

A Comparative Analysis

By: Helmut K. Anheier,Lester M. Salamon

Recent years have witnessed a significant upsurge of organized private, nonprofit activity in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and with it an appreciation of the role that nonprofit organizations can play in the processes of economic and political change. Long recognized as instruments of relief and promotors of human rights, such organizations have recently come to be viewed also as essential contributors to basic economic growth and to the broader civic infrastucture that is now increasingly seen as a fundamental precondition for markets and representative political institutions to function.

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Manchester University Press

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0719053862

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The Emerging Nonprofit Sector

An Overview

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

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The Emerging Nonprofit Sector

An Overview

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

Chapter 6: Country profiles.

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The Emerging Nonprofit Sector

An Overview

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

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An Overview

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

Chapter 6: Country profiles.

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The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe

Concepts, Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities

By: Bernard Enjolras,Lester M. Salamon,Karl Henrik Sivesind,Annette Zimmer

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The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe

Concepts, Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities

By: Bernard Enjolras,Lester M. Salamon,Karl Henrik Sivesind,Annette Zimmer

This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic development, citizen well-being and human development. The Third Sector As A Renewable Resource for Europe presents the findings of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7). It recognises that in a time of social and economic distress, as well as enormous pressures on governmental budgets, the third sector and volunteering represent a unique ‘renewable resource’ for social and economic problem-solving and civic engagement in Europe.

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Springer

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The Resilient Sector Revisited

The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

By: Lester M Salamon

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The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

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The Nonprofit Sector in the Developing World

A Comparative Analysis

By: Helmut K. Anheier,Lester M. Salamon

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A Comparative Analysis

By: Helmut K. Anheier,Lester M. Salamon

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Leverage for Good

An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment

By: Lester M. Salamon

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Leverage for Good

An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment

By: Lester M. Salamon

This volume presents the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the new actors and tools revolutionizing global philanthropy and social investment at the present time. At a time of declining government resources and limited charitable capability, this development represents one of the most hopeful signs for gaining meaningful traction on the globe's escalating problems of poverty, environmental degradation, and despair.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199376530

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The State of Nonprofit America

By: Lester M. Salamon

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Vital Signs 1999-2000

The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

By: Lester R. Brown,Michael Renner

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The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

By: Lester R. Brown,Michael Renner

This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.

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New Frontiers of Philanthropy

A Guide to the New Tools and New Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing

By: Lester M. Salamon

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New Frontiers of Philanthropy

A Guide to the New Tools and New Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing

By: Lester M. Salamon

The resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy are either barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation balloon daily. It is therefore increasingly clear that we urgently need new models for financing and promoting social and environmental objectives. Fortunately, a significant revolution appears to be underway on the frontiers of philanthropy and social investing, tapping not only philanthropy, but also private investment capital, and providing at least a partial response to this dilemma. This book examines the new actors and new tools that form the heart of this revolution, and shows how they are reshaping the way we go about supporting solutions to social and environmental problems throughout the world. With contributions from leading experts in the field, New Frontiers of Philanthropy provides a comprehensive analysis of the many new institutions that have surfaced on this new frontier of philanthropy and social investment; the new tools and instruments these institutions are bringing to bear; the challenges that these actors and tools still encounter; and the steps that are needed to maximize their impact. The result is a powerful and accessible guide to developments that are already bringing significant new resources into efforts to solve the world's problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation; unleashing new energies and new sources of ingenuity for social and environmental problem-solving; and generating new hope in an otherwise dismal scenario of lagging resources and resolve. Investors, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, business executives, government officials, and students the world over will find much to build on in these pages.

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Explaining Civil Society Development

A Social Origins Approach

By: Lester M. Salamon,S. Wojciech Sokolowski,Megan A. Haddock

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A Social Origins Approach

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The Resilient Sector

The State of Nonprofit America

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Defining the Nonprofit Sector

A Cross-national Analysis

By: Lester M. Salamon,Helmut K. Anheier

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A Cross-national Analysis

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The Illusion Of Presidential Government

By: Hugh Heclo,Lester M Salamon

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The Illusion Of Presidential Government

By: Hugh Heclo,Lester M Salamon

Presidential government is an illusion. It is an image that misleads presidents no less than the media and the American public." Thus begins this realistic look at the presidency, in which nine leading presidential scholars examine how and why we are under the illusion of presidential government and ask such questions as: What is the president's actual role? What has happened to his traditional tools of executive leadership? How is the office of the president organized to deal with domestic, economic, and national security affairs? is federal regulation an area of potential power for the president? And, if "presidential government" is indeed a myth, what can be done to help the presidency play a more effective part in constitutional government? Each chapter probes a different facet of the image of presidential government by looking at the major operations of the modern presidency-from struggles with Congress for control of administrative detail to problems of managing the economy and national security. The book closes with the final report of the National Academy of Public Administration's Panel on Presidential Management. Not surprisingly, the authors do not always agree; nevertheless, they are united in the view that the managerial role of the president must be seen as a whole-and without illusions.

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1000302342

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New Frontiers of Philanthropy

A Guide to the New Tools and New Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing

By: Lester M. Salamon

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