Peter Frumkin is Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, both at the University of Texas at Austin.

• 1. The Idea of a Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector 2. Civic and Political Engagement 3. Service Delivery 4. Values and Faith 5. Social Entrepreneurship 6. Balancing the Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Notes Index

Frumkin's little volume captures accurately and provocatively the contested and continuously-changing nonprofit domain. Unblindered by nonprofitdom's self-serving myths, it candidly identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of America's fastest-growing organizational sector.

Peter Frumkin is Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, both at the University of Texas at Austin.

• 1. The Idea of a Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector 2. Civic and Political Engagement 3. Service Delivery 4. Values and Faith 5. Social Entrepreneurship 6. Balancing the Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Notes Index

Frumkin's little volume captures accurately and provocatively the contested and continuously-changing nonprofit domain. Unblindered by nonprofitdom's self-serving myths, it candidly identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of America's fastest-growing organizational sector.

Peter Frumkin is Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, both at the University of Texas at Austin.

• 1. The Idea of a Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector 2. Civic and Political Engagement 3. Service Delivery 4. Values and Faith 5. Social Entrepreneurship 6. Balancing the Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Notes Index

Frumkin's little volume captures accurately and provocatively the contested and continuously-changing nonprofit domain. Unblindered by nonprofitdom's self-serving myths, it candidly identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of America's fastest-growing organizational sector.