The Nonprofit FAQ

Useful books about nonprofits (authors S-Z)
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.






To go back to part II (authors I-R), see http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/0/1549.html. For part I (authors A-H), see http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/0/1548.html.

Salamon, Lester M. Holding the Center: America's Nonprofit
Sector at a
Crossroads
. A Report for the Nathan Cummings Foundation, 1997.
Available online from http://www.ncf.org">http://www.ncf.org">http://www.ncf.org .



--. The International Guide to Nonprofit Law New York: John
Wiley &
Sons, 1997. Dr. Stefan Toepler of the Center for Civil Society
Studies at
Johns Hopkins (http://www.jhu.edu/~ips/civil.soc.html">http://www.jhu.edu/~ips/civil.soc.html">http://www.jhu.edu/~ips/civil.soc.html)
wrote to ARNOVA-L on July 2, 1998, to note that this book
gives an overview of the legal treatment of nonprofits in
22 countries around the world. Another good source of information is
the
International Center
for Not-for-Profit Law in Washington, DC and its website:
www.icnl.org



--. Private Action/Public Good: Maryland's Nonprofit Sector in a
Time of
Change
Maryland Nonprofits, 1997. (Try
http://www.mdnonprofit.org">http://www.mdnonprofit.org">http://www.mdnonprofit.org or
see Statewide Organizations A-M at
http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/12/01.html">http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/12/01.html">http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/12/01.html in this FAQ.)



Salzman, Jason. Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and
Activists
. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. ISBN
0-8133-6898-7.
Tips and advice for getting coverage for causes likely and unlikely.



Shore, William H., A Revolution of the Heart: A New Strategy for
Creating Wealth and Meaningful Change
. Riverhead Books, 1995.
$19. For a
review from American Philanthropy Review, see
http://www.nonprofits.org/misc/rev.html">http://www.nonprofits.org/misc/rev.html">http://www.nonprofits.org/misc/rev.html . And for further comments
by
Ina Frank, see http://www.nonprofits.org/misc/inashore.html">http://www.nonprofits.org/misc/inashore.html">http://www.nonprofits.org/misc/inashore.html .



Smith, Bradford. "The Use of Standard Industrial Classification
(SIC)
Codes to Classify the Activities of Nonprofit, Tax-Exempt
Organizations"
(Working Paper No. 19). San Francisco: Institute for Nonprofit
Organization Management, University of San Francisco, 1992.



Smith, David Horton. "Four Sectors or Five? Retaining the
Member-benefit
Sector." San Francisco: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly
,
20(1991):2, pp. 137-51.



Steckel, Dr. Richard, Filty Rich & Other Nonprofit Fantasies:
Changing
the Way Nonprofits Do Business in the 90's
. Berkeley, CA: Ten
Speed
Press, 1989. Good natured exhortation to nonprofits to seek more
sources
of entrepreneurial income, with worksheets and examples.



Taft Group, The. National Directory of Nonprofit
Organizations
. 2
volumes. Arlington, VA: Gale Research. 1994. Lists all organizations
filing 990s with the IRS and is extensively indexed. 1-800-877-TAFT.



Tecker, Glenn & Marybeth Fidler. Successful Association
Leadership: Dimensions of 21st-Century Competency for the CEO
.
American Society of Fundraising Executives (http://www.asaenet.org/">http://www.asaenet.org/">http://www.asaenet.org/)
(Product Number: 83A2-213552) Non-member Price: $35.00



Walsh, Jennifer R. The Shadow State: Government and the Voluntary
Sector
in Transition
. New York: The Foundation Center, 1990. The author
is
concerned about the co-optation of health and welfare organizations
by
government financing and by growing regulation of both revenues and
charities.



Weisbrod, Burton A. The Nonprofit Economy. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1988. href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674626265/internetnonp
rofi">
Order The Nonprofit Economy through Amazon.Com.




Wellford, W. Harrison, & Janne G. Gallagher, Unfair Competition?
The
Challenge to Charitable Tax Exemption
. Washington, DC: The
National
Assembly of National Voluntary Health and Social Welfare
Organizations,
1988.



Wholey, Joseph S., Harry P. Hatry, Kathryn E. Newcomer, eds.,
Handbook of
Practical Program Evaluation
. Jossey Bass Publishers, San
Franscisco



To go back to part II (authors I-R), see http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/0/1549.html. For part I (authors A-H), see http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/0/1548.html.





NOTE: Suggestions of other useful and interesting printed
materials are,
of course, very welcome. Please use the feedback service linked from the top of the yellow panel to the right. The best sort of listings are brief
and
yet give the full publication information, including price if
possible,
and a capsule description of contents.



Reposted as part of a three-part listing, 1/21/00 -- PB