What is the nonprofit sector? / A history of associational life and the nonprofit sector in the United States / Seeing like a philanthropist: from the business of benevolence to the benevolence of business / The organizational transformation of civil society / Tangled up in tax: the nonprofit sector and the Federal tax system / Political theory and the nonprofit sector / Nonprofits as boundary markers: the politics of choice, mobilization, and arbitrage / Politics, philanthropy, and inequality / Towards a governance framework for government-nonprofit relations / Social service nonprofits: navigating conflicting demands / Nonprofits as urban infrastructure / Immigrant organizations: civic (in)equality and civic (in)visibility / Economic theories of the social sector: from nonprofits to social enterprise / Social entrepreneurship: research as disciplined exploration / Nonprofits and the environment: using market forces for social good / The outcomes movement in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector / Charitable nonprofits and the business of health care / Education and the nonprofit sector: schools and organizational intermediaries / Nonprofit arts organizations: sustainability and rationales for support / Advocacy, civic engagement, and social change / The changing face of nonprofit advocacy: democratizing potentials and risks in an unequal context / Advocating for what? The nonprofit press and models of the public / What influences charitable giving? / The altruism budget: measuring and encouraging charitable giving / What do volunteers do? / Religious organizations: crosscutting the nonprofit sector / The global rise of nongovernmental organizations / Global backlash against foreign funding to domestic nongovernmental organizations / Social movements in a global context: history, content, and form / Comparative nonprofit sector research: a critical assessment