The Nonprofit Sector

Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. Patricia Bromley is Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University.

1. What Is the Nonprofit Sector?

 —Walter W. Powell

2. A History of Associational Life and the Nonprofit Sector in the United States

 —Benjamin Soskis

3. Seeing Like a Philanthropist: From the Business of Benevolence to the Benevolence of Business

 —Aaron Horvath and Walter W. Powell

4. The Organizational Transformation of Civil Society

 —Patricia Bromley



5. Tangled Up in Tax: The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Tax System

 —Daniel J. Hemel

6. Political Theory and the Nonprofit Sector

 —Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich

7. Nonprofits as Boundary Markers: The Politics of Choice, Mobilization, and Arbitrage

 —Elisabeth S. Clemens

8. Politics, Philanthropy, and Inequality

 —Sarah Reckhow

9. Toward a Governance Framework for Government–Nonprofit Relations

 —Nicole P. Marwell and Maoz Brown

10. Social Service Nonprofits: Navigating Conflicting Demands

 —Jennifer E. Mosley

11. Nonprofits as Urban Infrastructure

 —Christof Brandtner and Claire Dunning

12. Immigrant Organizations: Civic (In)equality and Civic (In)visibility

 —Irene Bloemraad, Shannon Gleeson, and Els de Graauw



13. Economic Theories of the Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise

 —Maitreesh Ghatak

14. Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration

 —Johanna Mair

15. Nonprofits and the Environment: Using Market Forces for Social Good

 —Magali A. Delmas, Thomas P. Lyon, and Sean Jackson



16. The Outcomes Movement in Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector

 —Paul Brest

17. Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care

 —Jill R. Horwitz



18. Education and the Nonprofit Sector: Schools and Organizational Intermediaries

 —Richard Arum and Jacob L. Kepins



19. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Sustainability and Rationales for Support

 —Francie Ostrower



20. Advocacy, Civic Engagement, and Social Change

 —David Suárez



21. The Changing Face of Nonprofit Advocacy: Democratizing Potentials and Risks in an Unequal Context

 —Edward T. Walker and Yotala Oszkay Febres-Cordero



22. Advocating for What? The Nonprofit Press and Models of the Public

 —Mike Ananny

23. What Influences Charitable Giving?

 —Pamela Paxton

24. The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving

 —Laura K. Gee and Jonathan Meer

25. What Do Volunteers Do?

 —Nina Eliasoph

26. Religious Organizations: Crosscutting the Nonprofit Sector

 —Brad R. Fulton

27. The Global Rise of Nongovernmental Organizations

 —Evan Schofer and Wesley Longhofer

28. Global Backlash Against Foreign Funding to Domestic Nongovernmental Organizations

 —Kendra Dupuy and Aseem Prakash

29. Social Movements in a Global Context: History, Content, and Form

 —Breno Bringel and Elizabeth McKenna

30. Comparative Nonprofit Sector Research: A Critical Assessment

 —Helmut K. Anheier, Markus Lang, and Stefan Toepler