Inventing the Nonprofit Sector

And Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6979-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

Winner of the John Grenzebach Award from the American Association of Fund-Raising Council Trust for Philanthropy and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education

Philanthropy and voluntarism are among the most familiar and least understood of American institutions. The oldest American nonprofit corporation—Harvard College—dates from 1636, but most of the million or so nonprofits currently in existence were established after 1960. In "Inventing the Nonprofit Sector" and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations cultural historian Peter Dobkin Hall describes and analyzes the development of America's fastest growing institutional sector.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Peter Dobkin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Hall, Peter Dobkin
Peter Dobkin Hall is Leonard Bacon Research Scholar in the Yale University Program on Non-Profit Organizations and teaches in the Divinity School at Yale University.