America's Nonprofit Sector

Few aspects of American society are as poorly understood or as obscured by mythology as the thousands of day-care centers, clinics, hospitals, higher education instititutions, civic action groups, museums, symphonies, and related organizations that comprise America's private, nonprofit sector. In this new, fully revised and expanded edition, Salamon, Professor at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, clarifies the basic scope, structure, operation and role of the nonprofit sector in the U.S.