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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826361603321

Autore

Salamon Lester M

Titolo

The resilient sector : the state of nonprofit America / / Lester M. Salamon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8157-9609-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Disciplina

338.7/4

Soggetti

Nonprofit organizations - United States

Associations, institutions, etc - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- The Resilient Sector -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Stakes: The Nonprofit Sector and Why We Need It -- 3 The Challenges -- 4 The Opportunities -- 5 The Nonprofit Response: A Story of Resilience -- 6 Resetting the Balance: The Task Ahead -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.