The nature of the nonprofit sector / edited by J. Steven Ott.

Overview : the state of the independent sector / Virginia Ann Hodgkinson and Murray S. Weitzman
Scope and structure : the anatomy of America's nonprofit sector / Lester M. Salamon
Voluntary sector / Jacquelyn Thayer Scott
Voluntarism / Jeffrey L. Brudney
The gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie
The Filer Commission Report, Giving in America : toward a stronger voluntary sector / John H. Filer
The impact of the voluntary sector on society / David Horton Smith
A history of the discipline / Stephen R. Block
Inventing the nonprofit sector : 1950-1990 / Peter Dobkin Hall
A brief history of tax policy changes affecting charitable organizations / Gary N. Scrivner
Tax-exempt organization / Christopher Hoyt
Nonprofit organization / Stephen R. Block
What is the nonprofit sector and why do we have it? / Lester M. Salamon
A new approach : the theory of the commons / Roger A. Lohmann
Government failure theory ; Contract failure theory / Dennis R. Young
And lettuce is nonanimal : toward a positive economics of voluntary action / Roger A. Lohmann
Political theories of nonprofit organization / James Douglas
Markets, politics, and charity : nonprofits in the political economy / Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
To empower people : the role of mediating structures in public policy / Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus
Nonprofit organizations and community / Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky
On the edge or in between : niche position, niche overlap, and the duration of voluntary association memberships / Pamela A. Popielarz and J. Miller McPherson
The sociology of nonprofit organizations and sectors / Paul J. DiMaggio and Helmut K. Anheier
Perspectives on organizational governance : some effects on government-nonprofit relations / J. Steven Ott
Nonprofit organizations in an age of uncertainty / Joseph Galaskiewicz and Wolfgang Bielefeld
What is altruism? / Alan Wolfe
Why donors give / Joan Mount
The founding fathers of modern philanthropy / Milton Goldin
The call of service : satisfactions / Robert Coles
Third party government / Dennis R. Young
Voluntary agencies and the contract culture : "dream or nightmare"? / Ralph M. Kramer
Resource interdependence : the relationship between state agencies and nonprofit organizations / Judith R. Saidel
The double-edged sword of social service contracting : public accountability versus nonprofit autonomy / James M. Ferris
The future of the nonprofit sector : its entwining with private enterprise and government / Burton A. Weisbrod
Nonprofits at the brink : lean budgets, growing needs, and the fate of nonprofits / Patrick J. McCormack
The current crisis / Lester M. Salamon.