"It is a delight to seen an anthology on nonprofit history done so well."—Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will find useful and illuminating."—Peter Dobkin Hall, Program on Non-Profit Organizations
Yale Divinity School
"A remarkable book."—Robert Putnam, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
[One to come from John Simon, School of Law, Yale University by Jan. 13th and others are being solicited.]
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. Though partially funded by government, as well as by fees and donations, American nonprofits have pursued their missions with considerable independence. Many have amassed remarkable resources and acquired some of the most impressive hospital, university, performing arts, and museum facilities in the world. While some have amassed large endowments, many that surpass one billion dollars, there are also hundreds of thousands of small nonprofits, most with no tangible resources at all.
How did the United States come to rely so heavily on nonprofits? Why has it continued to do so? What purposes do Americans seek to advance through nonprofits? How have Americans sought to control them? How have nonprofits been effected by the growth of government in the twentieth century? These questions suggest the complexity of the history of nonprofits in the United States. To help explore that history, this reader presents some of the classic documents in the development of the nonprofit sector along with important interpretations by recent scholars. The selections can be considered a representative part of a single extended conversation by the men and women who have taken part in the effort to define America and the American dream, even as they shaped what we now call the nonprofit sector. The statements by participants in the growth and development of the nonprofit sector are accompanied by essays written by historians and social scientists that provide concise surveys of important issues and periods. The essays give voice to those whose contributions to the American debate about voluntary associations and private institutions would otherwise be difficult to find or comprehend.
The selections can be considered a representative part of a single extended conversation by the men and women who have taken part in the effort to define America and the American dream, even as they shaped what we now call the nonprofit sector. The statements by participants in the growth and development of the nonprofit sector are accompanied by essays written by historians and social scientists that provide concise surveys of important issues and periods. The essays give voice to those whose contributions to the American debate about voluntary associations and private institutions would otherwise be difficult to find or comprehend.
Each selection has been chosen to define or illuminate important questions in the development of the nonprofit sector in the United States. Many include criticisms of particular nonprofit efforts, or of nonprofit activity in general. The intention is to provoke thought, not to establish an official list of readings. Though not every point of view could be included, the reader does reflect a general understanding of the nature of the nonprofit sector and its significance in the development of the United States.
Philanthropic Studies—Dwight F. Burlingame and David C. Hammack, general editors

David C Hammack; hoopla digital

Hammack, David C.

David Yeomans

Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press

Quarry Books

Philanthropic studies, Bloomington, Ind, Indiana, December 1998

United States, United States of America

United States, 1998

3, 1998

Includes bibliographical references.

"It is a delight to seen an anthology on nonprofit history done so well."—Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will find useful and illuminating."—Peter Dobkin Hall, Program on Non-Profit Organizations
Yale Divinity School
"A remarkable book."—Robert Putnam, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
[One to come from John Simon, School of Law, Yale University by Jan. 13th and others are being solicited.]
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. Though partially funded by government, as well as by fees and donations, American nonprofits have pursued their missions with considerable independence. Many have amassed remarkable resources and acquired some of the most impressive hospital, university, performing arts, and museum facilities in the world. While some have amassed large endowments, many that surpass one billion dollars, there are also hundreds of thousands of small nonprofits, most with no tangible resources at all.
How did the United States come to rely so heavily on nonprofits? Why has it continued to do so? What purposes do Americans seek to advance through nonprofits? How have Americans sought to control them? How have nonprofits been effected by the growth of government in the twentieth century? These questions suggest the complexity of the history of nonprofits in the United States. To help explore that history, this reader presents some of the classic documents in the development of the nonprofit sector along with important interpretations by recent scholars. The selections can be considered a representative part of a single extended conversation by the men and women who have taken part in the effort to define America and the American dream, even as they shaped what we now call the nonprofit sector. The statements by participants in the growth and development of the nonprofit sector are accompanied by essays written by historians and social scientists that provide concise surveys of important issues and periods. The essays give voice to those whose contributions to the American debate about voluntary associations and private institutions would otherwise be difficult to find or comprehend.
The selections can be considered a representative part of a single extended conversation by the men and women who have taken part in the effort to define America and the American dream, even as they shaped what we now call the nonprofit sector. The statements by participants in the growth and development of the nonprofit sector are accompanied by essays written by historians and social scientists that provide concise surveys of important issues and periods. The essays give voice to those whose contributions to the American debate about voluntary associations and private institutions would otherwise be difficult to find or comprehend.
Each selection has been chosen to define or illuminate important questions in the development of the nonprofit sector in the United States. Many include criticisms of particular nonprofit efforts, or of nonprofit activity in general. The intention is to provoke thought, not to establish an official list of readings. Though not every point of view could be included, the reader does reflect a general understanding of the nature of the nonprofit sector and its significance in the development of the United States.
Philanthropic Studies—Dwight F....

1 online resource (xix, 481 pages)
Includes bibliographical references
The statute of charitable uses, 1601 ; The Elizabethan Poor Law, 1601 ; Report to the viceroy of Mexico on conditions at Santa Fe, 1601 / Juan de Escalona ; A model of Christian charity, 1630 / John Winthrop ; Laws regulating religion, 1642 ; New England's First Fruits, 1643 / Hugh Peter, Thomas Weld ; Account of the ceremony proclaiming new France, 1671 / Claude Jean Allouz ; Remonstrance against the law against Quakers, 1657 ; Virginia's cure, 1662 / Roger Greene ; The great case of liberty of conscience, 1670 / William Penn ; Bonifacius: essays to do good, 1710 / Cotton Mather ; Argument against Anglican control of King's College (Columbia), 1753 / William Livingston ; Journal of the Carolina backcountry, 1767-68 / Charles Woodmason ; Autobiography: recollections of institution-building, 1771-84 / Benjamin Franklin ; Cato's letters: arguments against a strong central government, 1720 / John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon ; Argument against taxes for religious purposes in Massachusetts, 1774 / Isaac Backus ; Virginia act establishing religious freedom, 1786 / Thomas Jefferson ; The Federalist, no. 10, 1787 / James Madison ; The Constitution of the United States, excerpts, 1789, and the first and tenth amendments, 1791 ; Autobiographical statement on the 1818 disestablishment of the "standing order" in Connecticut, 1864 / Lyman Beecher ; The Dartmouth College case. Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1818 / Daniel Webster ; Decision / John Marshall ; Concurring opinion, 1819 / Joseph Story ; Political associations in the United States, 1835, and of the use which Americans make of public associations in civil society, 1840 / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Organized activity among slaves ; The suppression of religion among slaves, 1849 / Henry Bibb ; Account of slave preachers, 1839 / Daniel A. Payne ; The voluntary principle in American Christianity, 1844 / Robert Baird ; Institutions, autonomy, and national networks, 1982 / Peter Dobkin Hall ; Social Catholicism, 1975 / Jay P. Dolan ; The Jewish tradition of community, 1970 / Arthur A. Goren ; Women together organizations in Antebellum Petersburg, Virginia, 1984 / Suzanne Lebsock ; Parallel power structures: women and the voluntary sphere, 1990 / Kathleen D. McCarthy ; Economic cooperation among Negro Americans, 1907 / W.E.B. Dubois ; Debate over government subsidies. Argument against public subsidies to private charities, 1908 / Amos G. Warner ; The unofficial government of cities, 1900 / Everett P. Wheeler ; Business at the bedside: health care in Brooklyn, 1890-1915 (1979) / David Rosner ; Address on the tenth anniversary of the Rockefeller Institute, 1911 / Frederick T. Gates ; Community foundations: the delicate question of purpose, 1989 / David C. Hammack ; Community chest, 1957 / John R. Seeley et al / The March of Dimes: origins and prospects, 1957 / David L. Sills ; Pierce v. Society of the Sisters. Brief for private schools / William D. Guthrie, Bernard Hershkopf ; Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1925 / Justice McReynolds ; Debate over a Great Society nonprofit organization in Mississippi: testimony on the child development Group of Mississippi and the Head Start Program, 1967 / John Stennis, Marian Wright ; The Third Sector, 1974 ; The political economy of nonprofit revenues, 1993 / Steven Rathgeb Smith, Michael Lipsky ; Rust v. Sullivan: decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1991 / William Renquist. Ý
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