The Nonprofit FAQ

Useful books about nonprofits (authors A-H)
Note: The starting point for this list was provided on
October 16, 1994, by Putnam Barber. Some of the book listings below include
links to Amazon.Com for online ordering. Such orders generate
royalties which are used to maintain the Internet Nonprofit Center.
There is no particular logic to the selection of books which have
ordering links; they are just the ones where the link was found when
an editor had time to look up the ordering information. The

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AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy. Giving USA: The Annual Report on
Philanthropy for the year 1992
. Ann E. Kaplan, ed. New York:
1993.
[This publication is issued annually with updated statistics and an
almanac
of newsworthy developments.] AAFRC (American Association of
Fund-Raising
Counsel): http://www.aafrc.org">http://www.aafrc.org">http://www.aafrc.org



Abbott, Langer & Associates, Fringe Benefits and Working
Conditions in
Nonprofit Organizations
. (Phone:708-672-4200 FAX 708-672-4674)



--, Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations.
(Phone:708-672-4200 FAX
708-672-4674)



Accountants for the Public Interest. What a Difference Nonprofits
Make:
A Guide to Accounting Procedures
. Washington, DC: 1990.
(Available for
purchase from 1012 14th St, NW, #906, Washington, DC 20005.)



Applied Research and Development Institute International, Inc.
Innovative Compensation Practices in the Nonprofit Sector.
(Phone:
303-691-6076)



Banting, Keith. The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism.
Kingston:
McGill-Queen's
University Press. 1987.



Bassett, William. Religious Oorganizations and the Law
(Deerfield,
IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2 vols., 1997) Peter Dobkin Hall
wrote in
ARNOVA-L 10/15/97:
"This two-volume compendium by a Professor of
Law at
the University of San Francisco provides the first genuinely
panoramic view
of
the complex and often contradictory bodies of case and statute law
which
define the rapidly-changing landscape of church-state relations in
the
United States -- and does so from the theologically-informed
perspective
that grasps the important organizational differences between
religious and
religiously-tied entities."



Bennett, James T. & Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Unfair Competition: The
Profits
of Nonprofits
. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Press, 1989. This analysis
focusses
on certain Standard Industrial Codes with large groups of both
for-profit and nonprofit (including governmental) firms (such as
recreation and exercise facilities and printing) and takes the
position
that the nonprofit organizations enjoy illegitimate advantages.



Ben-Ner and Gui, eds., The Nonprofit Sector in a Mixed
Economy
. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press.



Bozeman, Barry. All Organizations Are Public: Bridging Public and
Private
Organizational Theories
. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987. ( href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555420362/internetnonp
rofi">
Order All Organizations Are Public from Amazon.Com.)



Bridges, William. JobShift. Addison-Wesley
Publishing Co., 1994. The source of the "End of the Job" reference
is from
a Fortune article in the September 19, 1994 issue: "The End
of the
Job: As a way of organizing work, it is a social artifact that
has outlived its usefulness. Its demise confronts everyone with
unfamiliar
risks -- and rich opportunities" The article is an excerpt from the
book.
--Barry Savage, 6/3/98



Brodhead, William M. Competition Between For-Profits and
Nonprofits:
What's Fair? What Serves the Public Good?
(An Independent Sector
Occasional Paper). Washington, DC: 1988.



Burbidge, John, ed., Beyond Prince and Merchant: Citizen
Participation
and the Rise of Civil Society
. NY: Pact Publications, 1997.
Essays on
the topics implied by the title; some were prepared in advance of an
international meeting in Cairo organized by the Intitute of Cultural
Affairs
and others were added following that conference. Includes an
historical and
theoretical overview of the concept of "civil society" by Goran
Hyden of the
University of Florida. ICA: http://www.icaworld.org/">http://www.icaworld.org/">http://www.icaworld.org/ ( href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888753099/internetnonp
rofi">
Order Beyond Prince and Merchant from Amazon.Com.)




Business Coalition for Fair Competition. The Model State Unfair
Competition Bill Annotated
. Alexandria, VA: 1993. (Available for
$25
from 1101 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.)



Clifton, Robert L., and Alam M. Dahms. Grassroots
Organization
.
Waveland
Press, 1993 (2nd edition).



Clotfelter, Charles, ed. Who Benefits from the Nonprofit
Sector?

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.



Colvin, Greg. Fiscal Sponsorship: Six Ways to Do It Right.
San
Francisco: Study Center Press (Paper $12.95, cloth $24.95; + $3
s&h),
1095 Market St, suite 602, San Francisco, CA 94103. Presents six
typical
fiscal sponsorship arrangements and discusses the circumstances and
goals that might lead to chosing one over another.



Council on Foundations. A Legal Compendium for Community
Foundations
.



Facchina, Bazil, Evan Showell and Jan E. Stone. Privileges and
Exemptions Enjoyed by Nonprofit Organizations: A Catalog and Some
Thoughts on Nonprofit Policymaking
. New York: New York
University School
of Law, The Program on Philanthropy and Law, 1993. ($9.50 from room
205,
110 W 3rd St., NYC 10012.)



Ferguson, Jacqueline. The Grantseeker's Guide to Project
Evaluation
.
(Capitol Publications, Inc., 1101 King Street, Alexandria VA 22314,
USA).



Flanagan, Joan. Successful Fundraising -- A Complete
Handbook for Volunteers and Professionals
. Michael Wyland
called it "a comprehensive
findraising
primer for non-profits" in NONPROFIT on March 6, 1998.



Foundation Center, The. The Literature of the Nonprofit
Sector
. New
York: The Foundation Center, 1989-1993 (annual). Comprehensive,
carefully indexed and annotated bibliography.



From: Lisa Beach on Septmber 4, 1996: The Foundation Center
publishes a
bibliography with abstracts titled "The Literature of the Nonprofit
Sector." I think the most current one is Volume 7. You can reach
them at
79 5th Ave., New York, NY 10003, (800)424-9836 (or
http://www.fdncenter.org/">http://www.fdncenter.org/">http://www.fdncenter.org/).



Gale Research, Encyclopedia of Associations. Detroit, MI:
Gale
Research, 1994. Lists more than 22,500 associations with
alphabetical
and key-word indexes.



Gallagher, Janne G. Sales Tax Exemptions for Charitable,
Educational,
and Religious Nonprofit Organizations
. Washington, DC: The
Independent
Sector, 1992.



Gaul, Gilbert M. and Neill A. Borowski, Free Ride: The Tax-Exempt
Economy
. Kansas City, MO: Andrews and McMeel. 1993.



Gronbjerg, Kirsten. "Nonprofits in the U.S. Political Economy:
Industry
Dimensions of Nonprofit Relations to State and Market." Paper
prepared
for "Private Action and Public Good" a conference of the Program on
Governance of Nonprofit Organizations of IUPUI (Indiana
University?).
November 1993.



Hall, Peter Dobkin. Inventing the Nonprofit Sector and Other
Essays on
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations
.
Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.



Hammack, David C. Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United
States (A Reader)
. Indiana University Press, 1998. An annotated
collection of relevant documents from 1601 to 1991. (Order href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253334896/internetnonp
rofi">
Making the Nonprofit Sector from Amazon.Com.)




รณ and Dennis R. Young, eds. Nonprofit Organizations in
a Market Economy: Understanding New Roles, Issues and Trends
.
San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.



Haycock, Nancy. The Nonprofit Sector in New York City. New
York: The
Non
profit Coordinating Committee of New York, 1992.



Herman, Robert D., and Associates. The Jossey-Bass Handbook of
Nonprofit
Leadership and Management
, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994. 653
pages,
$59.95. This collection of 25 articles brings together leading
experts
in nonprofit management to describe effective practice in all the
important functions, processes and strategies of nonprofit
organization
leadership and management. Topics considered include board
development,
strategic planning, lobbying, marketing, government contracting,
volunteer programs, fund raising, financial and management
accounting,
compensation and benefits programs, risk management and more.



Hodgkinson, Virginia A., et al. A Portrait of the Independent
Sector:
The Activities and Finances of Charitable Organizations
.
Washington, DC:
The Independent Sector, 1993. There is no state-by-state information
included in the Portrait, but there is a wealth of information based
on
a sample of all 501(c)(3)s and religious organizations (special
surveys
were conducted to supplement the information available in Form 990).



----. Nonprofit Almanac 1992-1993. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1993.



----, Richard W. Lyman, et al., The Future of the Nonprofit
Sector:
Challenges, Changes, and Policy Considerations
. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1989. Essays by a variety of observers and scholars on
a
broad range of topics.



Hone, Michael C., reporter. Revised Model Nonprofit Corporation
Act
,
adopted by the Subcommittee on the Model Nonprofit Corporation Law
of
the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, Summer
1987.
Clifton, NJ: Prentice Hall Law and Business, 1988.



Hopkins, Bruce. A Legal Guide to Starting and Managing a
Nonprofit
Organization
(2nd edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993.



----. The Law of Tax Exempt Organizations. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, frequently revised and reissued.

-----. The Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations. New York:
John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Order href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
0471106062/internetnonprofi">The Legal Answer Book through
Amazon.com; a royalty will be paid that will help maintain this site.



-----. The Second Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations. New
York: John Wiley and Sons, 1998. Order href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
0471296120/internetnonprofi">The Second Legal Answer Book through
Amazon.com; a royalty will be paid that will help maintain this site.





Hummel, Joan M. Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization
(2nd
ed). Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press, 1996. 152 pages, $14.95.
0-8166-2777-0. 612/627-1940. Reviewed in the Chronicle of
Philanthropy
7/25/96, p. 34: "This handbook is designed for people who want to
convert a grassroots organization to tax-exempt status, reconfigure
an
existing nonprofit organization, or better manage a fledgling one."



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