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Inventing the Nonprofit
Sector and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations
Peter Dobkin Hall (The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1992)
In this work, the author "describes
and analyzes the development of America's fastest-growing institutional
sector. Addressing the historical, religious, cultural, managerial, and
public-policy dimensions of philanthropy and voluntarism, Hall examines
the public perception of nonprofits, their structure, and the consequences
of that structure for management and public policy. He also considers
'the difficulty of producing objective scholarship about an industry that
is both the chief initiator of research and its major consumer. The continuing
debate over philanthropy and voluntarism, Hall argues, expresses central
tensions in democratic life. In our own time, these involve not only well-publicized
controversies over public policy with regard to taxation, regulation,
and social welfare, but also less visible . . . struggles within private
organizations as they seek to define and serve public needs." Hardcover,
362 pages, $42.50
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