Nonprofit organizations are all around us. Written in a clear, direct style without technicalities, The Nonprofit Economy is addressed to a broad audience and deals comprehensively with what nonprofits do, how well they do it, how they are financed, and how they interact with private enterprises and government.

Nonprofit organizations are all around us. Many people send their children to nonprofit day-care centers, schools, and colleges, and their elderly parents to nonprofit nursing homes; when they are ill, they may well go to a nonprofit hospital; they may visit a nonprofit museum, read the magazine of the nonprofit National Geographic Society. Nonprofits surround us, but we rarely think about their role in the economy, or the possibility of their competing unfairly with private enterprise.