State of Nonprofit America

<DIV><P>A Brookings Institution Press and the Aspen Institute publication<BR /><P>The thousands of organizations that comprise America's private nonprofit sector represent a national treasure. Yet serious pressures are altering the playing field on which nonprofits operate and many are responding in ways that may undermine their popular support.<BR /><BR /> Despite the significance of these developments little has been done to analyze and interpret them in a clear and understandable way. Lester M. Salamon a leading authority on the nonprofit sector has joined forces with more than a dozen other experts and the Aspen Institute to produce this volume an integrated authoritative assessment of the state of nonprofit America and the key trends affecting its evolution.<BR /><BR /> The book is organized into three sections. The first summarizes critical trends and issues; the second examines each of the sector's major subsectors (e.g. health education social services arts and culture international assistance advocacy); the third focuses on major cross-cutting trends and issues (commercialization changing government policy accountability and demographic and technological imperatives).<BR /><BR /> The Resilient Sector will be updated every two years. It provides a basic sourcebook for sector leaders the press public officials and citizens concerned about the future of America's nonprofit sector and eager to understand the forces affecting it.<BR /><BR /></P><BR /></DIV></P>