The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America

by Lester M. Salamon

Book Overview

A Brookings Institution Press and the Aspen Institute publication

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815776799
• ISBN13: 9780815776796
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A seminal work of articulate scholarship

The Resilient Sector: The State Of Nonprofit America by Lester M. Salamon (Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies) is a critical and instructive analysis of America's nonprofit organizations as they operate in the country today. Tracing their resilience in response to turbulent challenges, and postulating that the private sector's very flexibility may yet prove its Achilles heel in that it undermines the nonprofit sector's ability to do what must be done, The Resilient Sector is well-researched, thought-provoking, a seminal work of articulate scholarship and very highly recommended reading for anyone involved with or donating to charitable, political, social issue, or religious non-profit organizations whether they are local, regional, or national.