Recent "Off the Shelf" Book Reviews

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

Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice. Dennis R. Young, editor (AltaMira Press, 2006)

"Financing Nonprofits is a comprehensive, high-level examination of the theory underlying nonprofit finance and, in addition to nonprofit CEOs, CFOs, and trustees, should be of interest to scholars and students of nonprofit finance." More...

Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life. Marc Freedman (PublicAffairs, 2007)

"While Freedman does not rule out the business world as a source of encore careers, it is clear that his vision is for boomers to become 'the backbone of education, health care, nonprofits, the government, and other sectors essential to national well-being.' He convincingly argues not only that boomers are particularly well-suited for these roles given their life experience, but that labor shortages in crucial fields such as teaching and nursing demand intervention from the boomer generation." More...

Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth. Mary Beth Martin, Susan U. Raymond (John Wiley & Sons, 2007)

"...how will this unprecedented transfer of wealth affect the nonprofits that stand to gain? How will nonprofits respond to the managerial and organizational challenges? And can American philanthropy continue to exist in its current form?...Those are just some of the questions addressed in Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy." More...

Reconnecting Education and Foundations: Turning Good Intentions into Educational Capital. Thomas Ehrlich, Ray Bacchetti, editors (Jossey-Bass, 2006)

"To commemorate its centennial, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching commissioned two of its resident scholars, Ray Bacchetti and Thomas Ehrlich, to edit a collection on the faltering relationship between major foundations and educational institutions. The result, Reconnecting Education and Foundations, proposes a paradigmatic shift toward the accumulation of educational capital by grantseekers and grantmakers." More...

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