Chapter 11

In Conclusion

Lester Salamon in an article published 15 years ago identified the following four challenges for non-profit organizations (NPOs), which according to him “constitute an emerging crisis of American nonprofit sector”: fiscal, economic, effectiveness, and legitimacy crises (1997, 420). However, considering the steady growth of NPOs and their growing salience in almost all aspects of our lives, one cannot but agree that this sector is as strong if not stronger than what it was 14 years ago. Salamon, realizing the growth and ...

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