1/22/2008

Recent "Off the Shelf" Book Reviews

Here are quick highlights from Philanthropy News Digest's Off the Shelf book reviews by Foundation Center staff:

Charity on Trial: What You Need to Know before You Give. Doug White. (Barricade Books, 2006)
“...Certainly, the majority of America's charities (all 1.5 million of them) are on the up and up. But some are not — and they're the subject of Doug White's Charity on Trial, an engrossing and at times stupefying account of some of the more reprehensible recent acts of nonprofit malfeasance and incompetence.” More...


The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (South End Press, 2007)
"...The essays in the book are full of lessons learned, unresolved issues, and perspectives on the future of social justice movements and the nonprofit sector. We discover, for example, that there is difference between social service and social change, and that making this distinction can be helpful in assessing the viability and appropriate use of the 501(c)(3) model." More...

For a full list of archived Off the Shelf reviews, click here.

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