The Nonprofit Sector

Göran Sonnevi, Rosanna Warren, Rika Lesser

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9780300153439
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

The second edition of The Nonprofit Sector provides a novel, comprehensive, cross-disciplinary perspective on nonprofit organizations and their role and function in society. This new, updated edition keeps pace with industry trends and advances as well as with the changing interests and needs of students, practitioners, and researchers. As before, every chapter has been written to stand on its own, providing sufficient background for the reader to follow the argument without referring to other chapters—allowing readers to selectively choose those chapters that are most relevant to a particular course, interest, or issue.

The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook includes twenty-seven new or updated chapters. Relevant chapters from the previous edition have been refined, and new chapters have been added to fill in gaps, making this the authoritative reference for all who want an accessible, perceptive, and all-inclusive rendering of the nonprofit sector. The contributors—prominent scholars in their respective fields—carefully reflect upon the variety of changes in the rapidly growing world of nonprofits, examining a wide array of organizations, international issues, social science theories, and philanthropic traditions and covering a broad range of topics including the history and scope of nonprofit activities in the United States and abroad, the relation of nonprofits to the marketplace, government-nonprofit issues, key activities of nonprofits, aspects of giving to and joining nonprofits, and nonprofit mission and governance. For anyone who wishes to have a deeper understanding of the nonprofit sector, this remains the essential guide.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I History and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector
• 1. The Nonprofit Sector in Historical Perspective: Traditions of Philanthropy in the West
• 2. A Historical Overview of Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations, and Nonprofit Organizations in the United States, 1600–2000
• 3. Scope and Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
• 4. The Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Perspective
• Part II Nonprofits and the Marketplace
• 5. Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organizations
• 6. Nonprofit Organizations and the Market
• 7. Work in the Nonprofit Sector
• 8. Collaboration between Corporations and Nonprofit Organizations
• Part III Nonprofits and the Polity
• 9. The Constitution of Citizens: Political Theories of Nonprofit Organizations
• 10. Scope and Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations
• 11. The Legal Framework for Nonprofit Organizations
• 12. The Federal Tax Treatment of Charitable Organizations
• 13. Nonprofit Organizations and Political Advocacy
• 14. International Nongovernmental Organizations
• Part IV Key Activities in the Nonprofit Sector
• 15. Foundations
• 16. Nonprofit Organizations and Health Care: Some Paradoxes of Persistent Scrutiny
• 17. Social Care and the Nonprofit Sector in the Western Developed World
• 18. Nonprofit Organizations and the Intersectoral Division of Labor in the Arts
• 19. Higher Education: Evolving Forms and Emerging Markets
• 20. Religion and the Nonprofit Sector
• 21. Nonprofit Community Organizations in Poor Urban Settings: Bridging Institutional Gaps for Youth
• Part V Who Participates in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?
• 22. Nonprofit Membership Associations
• 23. Charitable Giving: How Much, by Whom, to What, and How?
• 24. Why Do People Give?
• Part VI Mission and Governance
• 25. Nonprofit Mission: Constancy, Responsiveness, or Deflection?
• 26. Governance: Research Trends, Gaps, and Future Prospects
• 27. Commercial Activity, Technological Change, and Nonprofit Mission
• About the Contributors
• Index