Inventing the Nonprofit Sector: And Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations

by Peter Dobkin Hall

Book Overview

Winner of the John Grenzebach Award from the American Association of Fund-Raising Council Trust for Philanthropy and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education

Philanthropy and voluntarism are among the most familiar and least understood of American institutions. The oldest American nonprofit corporation--Harvard College--dates from 1636, but most of the million or so nonprofits currently in existence were established after 1960...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080186979X
• ISBN13: 9780801869792
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"