Download or read book The Resilient Sector Revisited written by Lester M. Salamon and published by Brookings Inst Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today America's nonprofit sector, long a critically important part of the nation's social and economic fabric, is more important than ever. Economic woes and cutbacks in public services have put additional burdens on the nonprofit sector and exacerbated the issue of facing dueling identities as not-for-profit organizations operating in a for-profit market economy. As Lester Salamon explains in his second edition of The Resilient Sector, America's nonprofit organizations are caught in a force field, buffeted by four different impulses—voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism—that are pulling it in rather different directions. Understanding these forces and the factors shaping them becomes essential to understanding the evolution of individual organizations and of the nonprofit sector as a whole. Salamon explains how and why they developed and how they interact with one another in the ongoing battle for the soul of America's nonprofit world. Salamon's pity and acessible book is perfect for nonprofit leaders and practitioners as well as anyone looking for a better handle on the proper division of labor among government, business, public, private, and voluntary nonprofit entities in America.