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Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States
A Reader
Edited with Introductions by David C. Hammack
"Masterfully mining and sifting a four-century historical record, David Hammack has composed an extraordinarily valuable volume: a ‘one-stop-shopping’ sourcebook on the secular and religious origins and the astonishing growth (and periodic growing pains) of America’s nonprofit sector—and the challenges and dilemmas it confronts today." —John Simon, Yale University
"It is a delight to see an anthology on nonprofit history done so well." —Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will
find useful and illuminating." —Peter Dobkin Hall, Program on Non-Profit Organizations Yale Divinity School
"A remarkable book." —Robert Putnam, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"An outstanding and timely collection of essential readings for students, researchers and practitioners, carefully edited and introduced by one of the leading historical authorities on the nonprofit sector." —Roseanne M. Mirabella, Center for Public Service, Seton Hall University
Unique among nations, the United States conducts almost all of its formally organized religious activity, as well as many cultural, arts, human service, educational, and research activities, through private nonprofit organizations. This reader explores their history by presenting some of the classic documents in the development of the nonprofit sector along with important interpretations and critiques by recent scholars.
David C. Hammack is Hiram C. Haydon Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Educational Programs of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University.
Philanthropic Studies—Dwight F. Burlingame and David C. Hammack, general editors |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Growth of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States
I. British and Colonial Patterns
One. Colonial Theory: Established Churches
1. The Statute of Charitable Uses, 1601
2. The Elizabethan Poor Law, 1601
3. Brother Juan deEscalona, Report to the Viceroy of Mexico on Conditions at Santa Fe, 1601
4. John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
5. Virginia General Assembly, Laws Regulating Conduct and Religion, 1642
6. Hugh Peter and Thomas Weld, New England's First Fruits, 1643
7. Claude Jean Allouz, S.J., Account of the Ceremony Proclaiming New France, 1671
Two. Colonial Reality: Religious Diversity
8. Inhabitants of Flushing, Long Island, Remonstrance against the Law against Quakers, 1657
9. Roger Greene, Virginia's Cure, 1662
10. William Penn, The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience, 1670
11. Cotton Mather, Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good, 1710
12. William Livingston, Argument against Anglican Control of King's College (Columbia),1753
13. Charles Woodmason, Journal of the Carolina Backcountry, 1767-68
14. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography: Recollections of Institution-Building, 1771-84
II. The American Revolution: Sources of the Nonprofit Sector
Three. To the Constitution: Limited Government and Disestablishment
15. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters: Arguments against a Strong Central Government, 1720
16. Isaac Backus, Argument against Taxes for Religious Purposes in Massachusetts, 1774
17. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Act Establishing Religious Freedom, 1786
18. James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10, 1787
19. The Constitution of the United States, excerpts, 1789, and The First and Tenth Amendments, 1791
Four. Voluntarism under the Constitution
20. Lyman Beecher, Autobiographical Statement on the 1818 Disestablishment of the "Standing Order" in Connecticut, 1864
21. The Dartmouth College Case: Daniel Webster, Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1818; Chief Justice John Marshall, Decision, and Joseph Story, Concurring Opinion, 1819
22. Alexis de Tocqueville, Political Associations in the United States, 1835, and Of the Use Which Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Society, 1840
III. Uses of Nonprofit Organizations
Five. Varieties of Religious Nonprofits
23. Organized Activity among Slaves: Henry Bibb, The Supression of Religion among Slaves, 1849, and Daniel A. Payne, Account of Slave Preachers, 1839
24. Robert Baird, The Voluntary Principle in American Christianity, 1844
25. Peter Dobkin Hall, Institutions, Autonomy, and National Networks, 1982
26. Jay P. Dolan, Social Catholicism, 1975
27. Arthur A. Goren, The Jewish Tradition of Community, 1970
Six. Nonprofit Organizations as Alternative Power Structures
28. Suzanne Lebsock, Women Together: Organizations in Antebellum Petersburg, Virginia, 1984
29. Kathleen D. McCarthy, Parallel Power Structures: Women and the Voluntary Sphere, 1990
30. W.E.B. DuBois, Cooperation Among Negro Americans, 1907
IV. Nonprofit Structures for the Twentieth Century
Seven. Science, Professionalism, Foundations, Federations
31. Debate Over Government Subsidies: Amos G. Warner, Argument against Public Subsidies to American Charities, 1908 and Everett P. Wheeler, The Unofficial Government of Cities, 1900
32. David Rosner, Business at the Bedside: Health Care in Brooklyn, 1890-1915, 1979
33. Frederick T. Gates, Address on the Tenth Anniversary of the Rockefeller Institute, 1911
34. David C. Hammack, Community Foundations: The Delicate Question of Purpose, 1989
35. John R. Seeley et al., Community Chest, 1957
36. David L. Sills, The March of Dimes: Origins and Prospects, 1957
Eight. Federal Regulation and Federal Funds
37. Pierce v. Society of the Sisters: William D. Guthrie and Bernard Hershkopf, Brief for Private Schools, and Justice McReynolds, Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1925
38. Debate over a Nonprofit Organization in Mississippi: Senator John Stennis and Attorney Marian Wright, Testimony on the Child Development Group of Mississippi and the Head Start Program, 1967
39. The Filer Commission, The Third Sector, 1974
40. Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky, The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues, 1993
41. Rust v. Sullivan: Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1991
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