Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (Philanthropic Studie)

Unique among nations, America conducts almost all of its formally organized religious activity, and many cultural, arts, human service, educational, and research activities through private nonprofit organizations. This reader explores their history by presenting some of the classic documents in the development of the nonprofit sector along with important interpretations and critiques by recent scholars. Each selection has been chosen to define or illuminate important questions in the development of the nonprofit sector in the United States, beginning with early 17th-century documents and ending with a 1991 Supreme Court decision.

• Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton Legacy Library)
• You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
• American Philanthropy; Second Edition:2nd (Second) edition
• How the Other Half Lives, Special Illustrated Edition
• Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy, + Website: A Guide to Ethical Decision Making and Regulation for Nonprofit Organizations
• The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
• The Insider's Guide to Grantmaking
• The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty (Poverty, Interrupted)