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Elizabeth T. Boris is the Waldemar A. Nielsen Chair of Philanthropy at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and an Urban Institute Fellow. She was the founding director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, which she led from 1996-2016. She is co-editor with Gene Steuerle of two previous editions of Nonprofits and Government, author of many research studies on nonprofits and philanthropy, and an active advisor and board member of many groups.
C. Eugene Steuerle is an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fischer chair at the Urban Institute. He served as deputy assistant secretary of the US Department of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987–89) before co-founding the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Urban’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, and Act for Alexandria, a community foundation. His other books include Dead Men Ruling, Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy, and Nonprofits and Business.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Organizations in a Democracy
Elizabeth T. Boris, Brice McKeever, and Beatrice Leydier
Chapter 1: Supplementary, Complementary or Adversarial?
Nonprofit-Government Relations
Dennis Young and John Casey
Chapter 2: Meeting Social Needs through Charitable and Government Resources
C. Eugene Steuerle, Alan Abramson, Ellen Steele, and Virginia Hodgkinson
Chapter 3: Cross-Sector Nonprofit-Government Financing
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Chapter 4: Tax Treatment of Nonprofit Organizations
A Two-Edged Sword?
Evelyn Brody and Joseph J. Cordes
Chapter 5: State Regulatory and Legal Framework
Cindy Lott and Marion Fremont-Smith
Chapter 6: Nonprofits and Advocacy
Roger Colinvaux
Chapter 7: No Taxation, No Representation: How Government
Is Organized – or Not – to Address Nonprofit Issues
Alan J. Abramson
Chapter 8: Philanthropy: Shaping and Being Shaped by Public Policy
Lewis Faulk and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson
Chapter 9: New Ways of Creating Social Value: Hybrids
and Impact Investing
Joe Cordes, Gene Steuerle, Nathan Dietz, and Erica Broadus
Chapter 10: Performance Measurement and Management: The Tangled
Web of Nonprofit-Government Relationships
Saunji Fyffe, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Mary K. Winkler
Chapter 11: International Trends in Government-Nonprofit Relations:
Constancy, Change and Contradictions
Susan D. Phillips and Mark Blumberg
Index
About the Contributors
“The past three decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scope and complexity of relationships between government and nonprofits. In Nonprofits and Government, Elizabeth Boris, Eugene Steuerle, and their colleagues provide a valuable overview of where this growth has led. For anyone who wishes to understand the role of nonprofit organizations in carrying out and influencing public policy today, this collection of essays is essential reading.”
(Previous Edition Praise)
— Leslie Lenkowsky, Professor of Philanthropy and Public Policy, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy
“Can nonprofits make up for cuts in government spending? How dependent are nonprofits themselves on federal funds? What role do tax breaks play in charitable giving? These questions have all figured prominently in recent Washington policy debates. Now, the authors of this important book have marshaled the best evidence available to provide some much-needed answers.” ―Janet Novack, Senior Editor, Washington Bureau, Forbes magazine (Previous Edition Praise)
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“This volume captures beautifully the constant and fateful interaction between state and civil society in all its variety and complexity. Each of the book's learned and resourceful contributors brings analytical power and thoughtful reflection to a different dimension of this fast-shifting story of public-private engagement.” (Previous Edition Praise)
— John Simon, Augustus Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School, and Founding Director, Yale University Program on Nonprofit Organizations
“More than any other book, the 2016 edition of Nonprofits and Government by Boris and Steuerle is today’s Bible of U.S. matters nonprofit and philanthropic. It not only provides up-to-date data on all important aspects of America’s Civic Sector, but it does so in reader-friendly, easily understandable prose. Moreover, it adds to and updates the figures presented in earlier editions in this authoritative series, including the most reliable examination of money flows between government and nonprofit organizations. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who values America’s remarkable nonprofit sector and who wants to understand it better than anyone else!”
— Joel Fleishman, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Duke University
New features include: - New chapters on Performance Management, Government organization to address nonprofit issues, and Philanthropy
- A new chapter on hybrid organizations and impact investing that is among the first textbook resources on this emerging field
- Revised chapters on Advocacy and International Perspectives
Contributors include Alan J. Abramson, Elizabeth T. Boris, Erica Broadus, Evelyn Brody, John Casey, Roger Colinvaux, Joseph J. Cordes , Teresa Derrick-Mills, Nathan Dietz, Lewis Faulk, Marion Fremont-Smith, Saunji D. Fyffe, Virginia Hodgkinson, Béatrice Leydier, Cindy M. Lott, Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, Brice McKeever, Susan D. Phillips, Steven Rathgeb Smith, Ellen Steele, C. Eugene Steuerle, Dennis R. Young, and Mary K. Winkler.