"This work will prove invaluable in the new millennium as nonprofits face an ever-increasing array of challenges." --Choice "Steve Ott's book is extremely well done and fills a real need; namely, it covers the range of thoughtful explanations about why nonprofit organizations exist and why they are so important to a thriving free society." --Professor John Bryson, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota "Professor Ott is a leader in nonprofit management education. He has assembled a group of authors who have a great deal of knowledge in the field. The reader provides a great overview of the subject." --Dr. Naomi Bailin Wish, Center for Public Service, Seton Hall University "Steven Ott has assembled an outstanding collection of reading on the nonprofit sector. It should be required reading for classes on this topic." --Jeffrey L. Brudney, University of Georgia "Like a gourmand at large in a vast farmer's market, Steve Ott has picked his way through an increasingly rich and diverse literature on the nonprofit sector. Then Ott, the chef, has artfully combined and integrated his 'ingredients' into a scholarly feast fit for both novices and more experienced students of the sector." --Jacquelyn Thayer Scott, President & Vice-Chancellor, University College of Cape Breton "A valuable teaching tool providing students with breadth, depth, and a variety of perspectives. Ott has done a wonderful job of compiling some of the most influential and readable sources available." --Kevin Kearns, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, and President, The William J. Copeland Fund, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania "This collection offers a wide range of the best and most interesting work on nonprofit organization and the third sector." --Roger Lohmann, Editor, Nonprofit Management and Leadership "[The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector and Understand Nonprofit Organizations] work well together and are valuable resources that will help students, professionals, and scholars alike explore and understand the external and internal environments of nonprofit organizations. Overall, the volumes reach the editors' goals of presenting a story of the nonprofit sector that is readable and focuses on the central ideas that are important for students and professionals to grasp. These books are now part of my 'go-to' books as an instructor for macro-level social work courses and as a cofounder and community organizer working with various stakeholder on a new social service initiative." --Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly "Overall, The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector reads easily, and its structure flows wisely through the major parts. The book raises very interesting issues about the changing nature of the nonprofit sector over different eras and across nations... Enlightening and very useful. I think that Ott and Dicke should be applauded for the outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field." --Public Administration Review
