Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction
6. 1. What Is the Nonprofit Sector? 1
7. Part I. Emergence, Transformation, and Regulation
8. Introduction 19
9. 2. A History of Associational Life and the Nonprofit Sector in the United States 23
10. 3. Seeing Like a Philanthropist: From the Business of Benevolence to the Benevolence of Business 81
11. 4. The Organizational Transformation of Civil Society 123
12. 5. Tangled Up in Tax: The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Tax System 144
13. Part II. Politics of the Public Sphere
14. Introduction 167
15. 6. Political Theory and the Nonprofit Sector 171
16. 7. Nonprofits as Boundary Markers: The Politics of Choice, Mobilization, and Arbitrage 192
17. 8. Politics, Philanthropy, and Inequality 208
18. Part III. Governance, Civic Capacity, and Communities
19. Introduction 227
20. 9. Towards a Governance Framework for Government–Nonprofit Relations 231
21. 10. Social Service Nonprofits: Navigating Conflicting Demands 251
22. 11. Nonprofits as Urban Infrastructure 271
23. 12. Immigrant Organizations: Civic (In)equality and Civic (In)visibility 292
24. Part IV. Nonprofits, Mission, and the Market
25. Introduction 315
26. 13. Economic Theories of the Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise 319
27. 14. Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration 333
28. 15. Nonprofits and the Environment: Using Market Forces for Social Good 358
29. 16. The Outcomes Movement in Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector 381
30. Part V. Balancing Access and Inclusion
31. Introduction 409
32. 17. Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care 413
33. 18. Education and the Nonprofit Sector: Schools and Organizational Intermediaries 445
34. 19. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Sustainability and Rationales for Support 468
35. Part VI. Advocacy, Engagement, and the Public
36. Introduction 487
37. 20. Advocacy, Civic Engagement, and Social Change 491
38. 21. The Changing Face of Nonprofit Advocacy: Democratizing Potentials and Risks in an Unequal Context 507
39. 22. Advocating for What? The Nonprofit Press and Models of the Public 521
40. Part VII. Motivation, Meaning, and Prosocial Behavior
41. Introduction 539
42. 23. What Influences Charitable Giving? 543
43. 24. The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving 558
44. 25. What Do Volunteers Do? 566
45. 26. Religious Organizations: Crosscutting the Nonprofit Sector 579
46. Part VIII. Global and Comparative Perspectives
47. Introduction 599
48. 27. The Global Rise of Nongovernmental Organizations 603
49. 28. Global Backlash against Foreign Funding to Domestic Nongovernmental Organizations 618
50. 29. Social Movements in a Global Context: History, Content, and Form 631
51. 30. Comparative Nonprofit Sector Research: A Critical Assessment 648
52. Notes 677
53. References 703
54. Contributors 845
55. Index 855