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Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI)
The State of America's Nonprofit Sector Project
About the Book The State of Nonprofit America is an integrated, authoritative assessment of the state of nonprofit America and the key trends affecting its evolution. Visit about the book to:
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America's nonprofit sector currently confronts a variety of challenges that it only dimly understands and for which it is not well prepared. These challenges include: demographic changes that are expanding the "market" for the services that nonprofits provide; commercial pressures that are pushing nonprofits into greater reliance on fee-for-service income; expanded competition from for-profit providers; opposition to nonprofit advocacy activity; challenges to nonprofit tax-exempt status; increased accountability pressures; rapidly changing communications technology; and many more.
To advance understanding of these challenges, The Aspen Institute is collaborating with Dr. Lester M. Salamon of Johns Hopkins University on the State of America's Nonprofit Sector Project, which will produce periodic reports that examine the major developments affecting the nonprofit sector overall and in each of its major fields of activity (i.e., health, education, social services, etc.). This project has been funded by:
- The Carnegie Corporation of New York
- The Nathan Cummings Foundation
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Contact:
Lauren Stebbins
Senior Program Assistant
Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation
lauren.stebbins@aspeninstitute.org