A Corporate Form of Freedom: The Emergence of the Modern Nonprofit Sector

Product DescriptionFocusing upon the laws and judicial opinions that have shaped practices in New York and in other states, A Corporate Form of Freedom provides an historical account to explain how and why getting a nonprofit corporate charter came to be a matter of right instead of a privilege–and why the nonprofit corporate form today [...]

Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State

Product DescriptionLester Salamon pioneered the study of nonprofit organizations and of their cooperation with government in the development and delivery of important social and economic services. His unique research in the early and mid-1980s was the first to document the pervasive interrelationships between government and the nonprofit sector in the United States, identifying some of [...]