Nonprofits and Government

Collaboration and Conflict

Foreword by Sarah Rosen Wartell Edited by Elizabeth Boris, C. Eugene Steuerle

Publication date:

30 September 2016

Length of book:

372 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442271777

Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collaborative and conflicting relationship between nonprofits and government at all levels: local, national, and international. The contributors—all leading experts—explore how government regulates, facilitates, finances, and oversees nonprofit activities, and how nonprofits, in turn, try to shape the way government serves the public and promotes the civic, religious, and cultural life of the country. Buttressed by rigorous scholarship, a solid grasp of history, and practical ideas, this 360-degree assessment frees discussion of the nonprofit sector’s relationship to government from both wishful and insular thinking. The third edition, addresses the tremendous changes that created both opportunities and challenges for nonprofit-government relations over the past ten years, including new audit requirements, tax and regulatory changes, consequences of the Affordable Care Act and the Great Recession, and new nonprofit and philanthropic forms.

Contributions by Alan J. Abramson, Mark Blumberg, Elizabeth T. Boris, Erica Broadus, Evelyn Brody, John Casey, Roger Colinvaux, Joseph J. Cordes , Teresa Derrick-Mills, Nathan Dietz, Lewis Faulk, Marion Fremont-Smith, Saunji D. Fyffe, Virginia Hodgkinson, Béatrice Leydier, Cindy M. Lott, Jasmine McGinnis Johnson, Brice McKeever, Susan D. Phillips, Steven Rathgeb Smith, Ellen Steele, C. Eugene Steuerle, Dennis R. Young, and Mary K. Winkler.

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Organizations in a Democracy
Elizabeth T. Boris, Brice McKeever, and Beatrice Leydier

Chapter 1: Supplementary, Complementary or Adversarial?
Nonprofit-Government Relations
Dennis Young and John Casey

Chapter 2: Meeting Social Needs through Charitable and Government Resources
C. Eugene Steuerle, Alan Abramson, Ellen Steele, and Virginia Hodgkinson

Chapter 3: Cross-Sector Nonprofit-Government Financing
Steven Rathgeb Smith

Chapter 4: Tax Treatment of Nonprofit Organizations
A Two-Edged Sword?
Evelyn Brody and Joseph J. Cordes

Chapter 5: State Regulatory and Legal Framework
Cindy Lott and Marion Fremont-Smith

Chapter 6: Nonprofits and Advocacy
Roger Colinvaux

Chapter 7: No Taxation, No Representation: How Government
Is Organized – or Not – to Address Nonprofit Issues
Alan J. Abramson

Chapter 8: Philanthropy: Shaping and Being Shaped by Public Policy
Lewis Faulk and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson

Chapter 9: New Ways of Creating Social Value: Hybrids
and Impact Investing
Joe Cordes, Gene Steuerle, Nathan Dietz, and Erica Broadus

Chapter 10: Performance Measurement and Management: The Tangled
Web of Nonprofit-Government Relationships
Saunji Fyffe, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Mary K. Winkler

Chapter 11: International Trends in Government-Nonprofit Relations:
Constancy, Change and Contradictions
Susan D. Phillips and Mark Blumberg

Index
About the Contributors

“The past three decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scope and complexity of relationships between government and nonprofits. In Nonprofits and Government, Elizabeth Boris, Eugene Steuerle, and their colleagues provide a valuable overview of where this growth has led. For anyone who wishes to understand the role of nonprofit organizations in carrying out and influencing public policy today, this collection of essays is essential reading.”