The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America (Second edition)

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 rather different impulses - voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism - that are pulling it in rather different directions.

Understanding this force field and the factors shaping its dynamics thus becomes essential to understanding the future of individual organizations and of the nonprofit sector as a whole.