Who has ruled New York? Has power become more concentrated—or more widely and democratically dispersed—in American cities over the past one hundred years? How did New York come to have its modern phys
Now in paperback!Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United StatesA ReaderEdited with Introductions by David C. Hammack"Masterfully mining and sifting a four-century historical record, David Hammack ha
Once largely confined to the largest 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 essa
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
America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. They now number over 75,000, and as of 2009, they held over $
The essays in this book reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. They deal with topics of significant contemporary importance: initiatives to address the AIDS
Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity that defines so much of American life. No other nation provides its foundations with so much autonomy and freedom of action as does the
