"We often hear that nonprofit organizations are becoming more business oriented. Nonprofits and Business documents and explains the aggregate trend, analyzes the various forms commercialization takes, raises questions on the benefits and dangers of business activity to nonprofit organizations, and identifies the legal issues that are implicated. I am aware of no other resource as informative to nonprofit practitioners, policymakers, and researchers interested in the intersection between nonprofit and commercial activity."
—Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
"Anyone interested in the complex interactions between nonprofits and business will find this book an excellent and comprehensive resource. The authors bring timely analysis and insight to bear on the problems—and opportunities—these intertwined sectors face today. Nonprofits and Business is an informative, engaging read for students and researchers alike."
—Alan J. Abramson, Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
"Cordes and Steuerle, and their colleagues, have taken a very complex topic—the relationship between the nonprofit and business communities—and attacked it with aplomb. The way we collaborate with our for-profit partners will go a long way in determining each sector’s future success in improving lives and strengthening communities. Nonprofits and Business gives page after page of thoroughly researched, fresh insight into how to ensure that this critical partnership is as strong as it needs to be to inspire real social progress on a global scale."
—Diana Aviv, President and CEO, Independent Sector
"Nonprofits and Business is an important contribution to literature about nonprofit organizations. All of the authors have discipline-based credibility, and it is very good to see this topic developed in the context of organizational and economic theory. I will definitely use these chapters in my nonprofit strategy and leadership course."
—Christine Letts, Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education, Rita E. Hauser Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Nonprofits and Business, edited by Joseph J. Cordes and C. Eugene Steuerle, is available from the Urban Institute Press (ISBN 978-0-87766-741-4, paper, 296 pages, $29.50).
