Book Features New "Global Civil Society Index"
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Johns Hopkins researchers derail conventional beliefs about the
nonprofit sector in "Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the
Nonprofit Sector", the second volume of a book series evaluating
global civil society.
The book outlines the scope, size, composition, and financing of
the civil society sector in 36 countries and provides in-depth
analysis of the sector in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It
shows that nonprofit organizations are hardly an exclusively
American phenomenon, that time, not money, contributions are
more important to the economic and social impacts of nonprofit
work, that the nonprofit sector uses a larger labor force than
ever believed, and that government is a key source of nonprofit
finance.
A new "global civil society index" reveals that the Netherlands
has the most robust and sustainable civil society sector among
the countries studied, followed by Norway. The U.S. is in third
place.
Authors Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski produced
the book in cooperation with a team of associates based in coun-
tries ranging from Uganda to Pakistan as part of the Johns Hop-
kins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project.
This book will be a crucial source of information on the non-
profit sector, and essential reading for nonprofit and founda-
tion leaders, international development agency officials, and
public policy makers. It will also be a key reference tool for
libraries. The data are presented in an easily accessible style,
with numerous charts and tables.
Available from Kumarian Press at http://www.kpbooks.com
More information about the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit
Sector Project is available at http://www.jhu.edu/ccss