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“peter frumkin”

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  • On Being Nonprofit

    A Conceptual and Policy Primer

    by Peter Frumkin ...
    This concise and illuminating book provides a road map to the evolving conceptual and policy terrain of the nonprofit sector. Drawing on prominent economic, political, and sociological explanations of nonprofit activity, Peter Frumkin focuses on four important functions that have come to define nonprofit organizations. The author clarifies the debate over the underlying rationale for the nonprofit ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • American Philanthropic Foundations

    Regional Difference and Change

    by Steven Rathgeb Smith, Alan Abramson, Natalie Alm, Kate Anderson, Helmut Anheier, Jessica Elfenbein, Peter Frumkin, Elise Hagesfeld, David Howard0, Martin Lehfeldt1, Beth Lovelady2, Heather MacIndoe3, Arleda Martinez4, Carol J. Silverman5, Stefan Toepler6, Jamil Zainaldin7 ...
    Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Building for the Arts

    The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities

    by Peter Frumkin, Ana Kolendo ...
    Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers for the visual and performing arts. Among the projects that emerged from the boom were many brilliant successes. Others, like the striking addition ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Gifts of Time and Money

    The Role of Charity in America's Communities

    by Wolfgang Bielefeld, Eleanor Brown, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Peter Frumkin, Peter Dobkin Hall, Leslie Lenkowsky, Margaret G. Ogden, Patrick Rooney, Lynda St. Clair, Kathy Steinberg, Jeffrey D. Straussman, Lazar Treschan, Mary Tschirhart, David M. Van Slyke ...
    Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives, it is undeniable that communities are looking to increase their levels of charity and voluntarism ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • The Sum of Us

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington ... Read more

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  • Building Better Public Services

    A Guide for Practitioners

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  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

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  • Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services

    Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance, Revised and Updated

    by Robert C. Dickeson ...
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  • The Big Myth

    How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
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  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
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    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

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  • Ages of American Capitalism

    A History of the United States

    by Jonathan Levy ...
    **A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.“A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace**In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how ... Read more

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