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THE WIDESPREAD USE OF TOOLS LIKE LOANS, LOAN GUARANTEES, SOCIAL REGULATION, INSURANCE, GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS, TAX INCENTIVES, GRANTS ET AL- MANY WHICH INVOLVE THE PERVASIVE SHARING OF GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY WITH A HOST OF "3R PARTY (HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITIES, STATES, CITIES, ETC.) HAS ALTERED THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT & RENDERED THE TRADITIONAL PREOCCUPATIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FAR LESS ADEQUATE.

THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO CALL ATTENTION TO THE POTENTIAL BIAS BUILT INTO POLICY EVALUATION BY THE LIMITED TIME FRAME USED IN MOST EVALUATION RESEARCH. THE ARTICLE IDENTIFIES 3 DISTINCT TYPES OF TIME-RELATED PROGRAM IMPACTS AND OFFERS A FRAMEWORK FOR PREDICTING THE TYPES OF PROGRAMS LIKELY TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH EACH. A NEW DEAL PROGRAM IS ANALYZED.

This volume presents a comprehensive and authoritative account of the new actors and tools revolutionizing global philanthropy and social investment at the present time. At a time of declining government resources and limited charitable capability, this development represents one of the most hopeful signs for gaining meaningful traction on the globe's escalating problems of poverty

Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffetedby four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism.Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among theseimpulses. Understanding this force field and the factors shaping its dynamics thusbecomes central to understanding the future of particular organizations and of thenonprofit sector as a whole.In this second edition of an immensely successful volume, Lester Salamon and hiscolleagues offer an overview of the current state of America's nonprofit s

The Resilient Sector makes available in an updated form the concise overview of the state of health of America's nonprofit organizations that Johns Hopkins scholar Lester Salamon recently completed as part of the "state of nonprofit America" project he undertook in cooperation with the Aspen Institute. Contrary to popular understanding, Salamon argues, America's nonprofit organizations have shown remarkable resilience in recent years in the face of a variety of difficult challenges, significantly re-engineering themselves in the process. But this very resilience now poses risks for the sector's continued ability to perform the tasks that we have long expected of it. The Resilient Sector offers nonprofit practitioners, policymakers, the press, and the public at large a lively assessment of this set of institutions that we have long taken for granted, but that the Frenchman Alexis de-Toqueville recognized to be "more deserving of our attention" than almost any other part of the American experiment.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Aspen Institute publication The thousands of organizations that comprise America's private nonprofit sector represent a national treasure. Yet serious pressures are altering the playing field on which nonprofits operate, and many are responding in ways that may undermine their popular support. Despite the significance of these developments, little has been done to analyze and interpret them in a clear and understandable way. Lester M. Salamon, a leading authority on the nonprofit sector, has joined forces with more than a dozen other experts and the Aspen Institute to produce this volume, an integrated, authoritative assessment of the state of nonprofit America and the key trends affecting its evolution. The book is organized into three sections. The first summarizes critical trends and issues; the second examines each of the sector's major subsectors (e.g., health, education, social services, arts and culture, international assistance, advocacy); the third focuses on major cross-cutting trends and issues (commercialization, changing government policy, accountability, and demographic and technological imperatives). The Resilient Sector will be updated every two years. It provides a basic sourcebook for sector leaders, the press, public officials, and citizens concerned about the future of America's nonprofit sector and eager to understand the forces affecting it.