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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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This is a comprehensive overview of the scope, size, composition and financing of the nonprofit, or civil society, sector in the developed world. It challenges many conventional beliefs about the civil society sector.

How historically rooted power dynamics have shaped the evolution of civil society globally.

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.

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.

Partners in Public Service" brings together some of Lester Salamon's most important work on the changing relationship between government and the voluntary sector in the American version of the modern welfare state. 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.

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.

As Lester Salamon explains in his second edition of The Resilient Sector, America's non-profit organisations are caught in a force field, buffeted by four different impulses - voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism - that are pulling it in different directions. Understanding this is essential to understanding the future of the nonprofit sector. Salamon explains how and why they developed and how they interact with one ...

The thousands of organizations that comprise America's private nonprofit sector represent a national treasure. Yet serious pressures are altering the playing field on which nonprofits operate, and many are responding in ways that may undermine their popular support.