Contents:
1. Introduction: third sector policy at the crossroads: continuity and change in the world of nonprofit organizations
Helmut K. Anheier, Lisa Carlson and
Jeremy Kendall 2. The nonprofit sector at a crossroads: the case of America
Lester M. Salamon 3. Putting narrow-mindedness out of countenance: the UK voluntary sector in the new millennium
Nicholas Deakin 4. Decentering America's nonprofit sector: reflections on Salamon's crisis analysis
Jennifer Wolch 5. What crises, what challenges? When nonprofitness makes no difference
Paul Dekker 6. The role of philanthropic foundations: lessons from America's experience with private foundations
Julian Wolpert and
Elizabeth T. Boris 7. Corporate philanthropy's future
Dwight F. Burlingame 8. On the role of Philanthropic foundations: lessons from America's experience with private foundations
Diana Leat 9. Corporatism revisited: the legacy of history and the German nonprofit sector
Annette Zimmer 10. The third sector and the European Union policy process: an initial evaluation
Jeremy Kendall and
Helmut K. Anheier 11. The distortion between institutionalized and noninstitutionalized NPOs: new policy initiatives and nonprofit organizations in Japan
Masayuki Deguchi 12. The American third sector at the end of the twentieth century: public and private revisited
Eleanor L. Brilliant 13. NGOs and their vulnerabilities during the time of transition: the case of Poland
Joanna Regulska 14. Different eastern European countries at different crossroads
Éva Kuti 15. Civil organizations in Mexico: recent evolutions and current prospects
José Luis Méndez 16. Beyond the crossroads: policy issues for the Philippine nonprofit sector
Ledivina V. Cariño 17. South Africa: anti-apartheid NGOs in transition
Adam Habib and
Rupert Taylor 18. Conclusion: the third sector at the crossroads? Social, political and economic dynamics
Helmut K. Anheier and
Jeremy Kendall