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.

ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Organizations in a DemocracyElizabeth T. Boris, Brice McKeever, and Beatrice LeydierChapter 1: Supplementary, Complementary or Adversarial?Nonprofit-Government RelationsDennis Young and John CaseyChapter 2: Meeting Social Needs through Charitable and Government ResourcesC. Eugene Steuerle, Alan Abramson, Ellen Steele, and Virginia HodgkinsonChapter 3: Cross-Sector Nonprofit-Government FinancingSteven Rathgeb SmithChapter 4: Tax Treatment of Nonprofit OrganizationsA Two-Edged Sword?Evelyn Brody and Joseph J. CordesChapter 5: State Regulatory and Legal FrameworkCindy Lott and Marion Fremont-SmithChapter 6: Nonprofits and AdvocacyRoger ColinvauxChapter 7: No Taxation, No Representation: How GovernmentIs Organized - or Not - to Address Nonprofit IssuesAlan J. AbramsonChapter 8: Philanthropy: Shaping and Being Shaped by Public PolicyLewis Faulk and Jasmine McGinnis JohnsonChapter 9: New Ways of Creating Social Value: Hybridsand Impact InvestingJoe Cordes, Gene Steuerle, Nathan Dietz, and Erica BroadusChapter 10: Performance Measurement and Management: The TangledWeb of Nonprofit-Government RelationshipsSaunji Fyffe, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Mary K. WinklerChapter 11: International Trends in Government-Nonprofit Relations:Constancy, Change and ContradictionsSusan D. Phillips and Mark BlumbergIndexAbout the Contributors