Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict

by Sarah Rosen Wartell (Foreword by), Elizabeth Boris (Editor), C. Eugene Steuerle (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442271791
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/22/2016
Series:	Urban Institute Press
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth T. Boris is the Waldemar A. Nielsen Chair of Philanthropy at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and an Urban Institute Fellow. She was the founding director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, which she led from 1996-2016. She is co-editor with Gene Steuerle of two previous editions of Nonprofits and Government, author of many research studies on nonprofits and philanthropy, and an active advisor and board member of many groups.

C. Eugene Steuerle is an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fischer chair at the Urban Institute. He served as deputy assistant secretary of the US Department of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987–89) before co-founding the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Urban’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, and Act for Alexandria, a community foundation. His other books include Dead Men Ruling, Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy, and Nonprofits and Business.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

“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.”” —Leslie Lenkowsky, Professor of Philanthropy and Public Policy, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy

““This volume captures beautifully the constant and fateful interaction between state and civil society in all its variety and complexity. Each of the book's learned and resourceful contributors brings analytical power and thoughtful reflection to a different dimension of this fast-shifting story of public-private engagement.”” —John Simon, Augustus Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School, and Founding Director, Yale University Program on Nonprofit Organizations

““More than any other book, the 2016 edition of Nonprofits and Government by Boris and Steuerle is today’s Bible of U.S. matters nonprofit and philanthropic. It not only provides up-to-date data on all important aspects of America’s Civic Sector, but it does so in reader-friendly, easily understandable prose. Moreover, it adds to and updates the figures presented in earlier editions in this authoritative series, including the most reliable examination of money flows between government and nonprofit organizations. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who values America’s remarkable nonprofit sector and who wants to understand it better than anyone else!”” —Joel Fleishman, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Duke University

From the Publisher

Can nonprofits make up for cuts in government spending? How dependent are nonprofits themselves on federal funds? What role do tax breaks play in charitable giving? These questions have all figured prominently in recent Washington policy debates. Now, the authors of this important book have marshaled the best evidence available to provide some much-needed answers.

Janet Novack

More than any other book, the 2016 edition of Nonprofits and Government by Boris and Steuerle is today’s Bible of U.S. matters nonprofit and philanthropic. It not only provides up-to-date data on all important aspects of America’s Civic Sector, but it does so in reader-friendly, easily understandable prose. Moreover, it adds to and updates the figures presented in earlier editions in this authoritative series, including the most reliable examination of money flows between government and nonprofit organizations. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who values America’s remarkable nonprofit sector and who wants to understand it better than anyone else!

Joel Fleishman

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.”

Leslie Lenkowsky

This volume captures beautifully the constant and fateful interaction between state and civil society in all its variety and complexity. Each of the book's learned and resourceful contributors brings analytical power and thoughtful reflection to a different dimension of this fast-shifting story of public-private engagement.

John Simon