Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States : A Reader

by Hammack, David C.

• ISBN13: 9780253214102
• ISBN10: 0253214106
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Now in paperback!Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United StatesA ReaderEdited 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 -- willfind 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 UniversityUnique 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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: The Growth of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States	xv
British and Colonial Patterns
Colonial Theory: Established Churches
The Statute of Charitable Uses, 1601	5	(4)
The Elizabethan Poor Law, 1601	9	(5)
Report to the Viceroy of Mexico on Conditions at Santa Fe, 1601	14	(5)
Brother Juan de Escalona
A Model of Christian Charity, 1630	19	(9)
John Winthrop
Virginia General Assembly, Laws Regulating Religion, 1642	28	(2)
New England's First Fruits, 1643	30	(4)
Hugh Peter
Thomas Weld
Account of the Ceremony Proclaiming New France, 1671	34	(5)
Claude Jean Allouz, S. J.
Colonial Reality: Religious Diversity
Inhabitants of Flushing, Long Island, Remonstrance against the Law against Quakers, 1657	39	(3)
Virginia's Cure, 1662	42	(4)
Roger Greene
The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience, 1670	46	(4)
William Penn
Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good, 1710	50	(11)
Cotton Mather
Argument against Anglican Control of King's College (Columbia), 1753	61	(3)
William Livingston
Journal of the Carolina Backcountry, 1767--68	64	(6)
Charles Woodmason
Autobiography: Recollections of Institution-Building, 1771--84	70	(21)
Benjamin Franklin
The American Revolution: Sources of the Nonprofit Sector
To the Constitution: Limited Government and Disestablishment
Cato's Letters: Arguments against a Strong Central Government, 1720	91	(6)
John Trenchard
Thomas Gordon
Argument against Taxes for Religious Purposes in Massachusetts, 1774	97	(3)
Isaac Backus
Virginia Act Establishing Religious Freedom, 1786	100	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
The Federalist, No. 10, 1787	103	(8)
James Madison
The Constitution of the United States, excerpt, 1789, and The First and Tenth Amendments, 1791	111	(7)
Voluntarism under the Constitution
Autobiographical Statement on the 1818 Disestablishment of the ``Standing Order'' in Connecticut, 1864	118	(5)
Lyman Beecher
The Dartmouth College Case: Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1818	123	(19)
Daniel Webster
Chief Justice John Marshall
Joseph Story
Political Associations in the United States, 1835, and of the Use Which Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Society, 1840	142	(17)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Use of Nonprofit Organizations
Varieties of Religious Nonprofits
Organized Activity among Slaves:	159	(4)
Henry Bibb
Daniel A. Payne
The Voluntary Principle in American Christianity, 1844	163	(11)
Robert Baird
Institutions, Autonomy, and National Networks, 1982	174	(14)
Peter Dobkin Hall
Social Catholicism, 1975	188	(15)
Jay P. Dolan
The Jewish Tradition of Community, 1970	203	(21)
Arthur A. Goren
Nonprofit Organizations as Alternative Power Structures
Women Together: Organizations in Antebellum Petersburg, Virginia, 1984	224	(24)
Suzanne Lebsock
Parallel Power Structures: Women and the Voluntary Sphere, 1990	248	(16)
Kathleen D. McCarthy
Economic Cooperation among Negro Americans, 1907	264	(22)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nonprofit Structures for the Twentieth Century
Science, Professionalism, Foundations, Federations
Debate over Government Subsidies:	286	(23)
Amos G. Warner
Everett P. Wheeler
Business at the Bedside: Health Care in Brooklyn, 1890--1915, 1979	309	(11)
David Rosner
Address on the Tenth Anniversary of the Rockefeller Institute, 1911	320	(9)
Frederick T. Gates
Community Foundations: The Delicate Question of Purpose, 1989	329	(25)
David C. Hammack
Community Chest, 1957	354	(19)
John R. Seeley
The March of Dimes: Origins and Prospects, 1957	373	(31)
David L. Sills
Federal Regulation and Federal Funds
Pierce v. Society of the Sisters:	404	(18)
William D. Guthrie
Bernard Hershkopf
Justice McReynolds
Debate over a Great Society Nonprofit Organization in Mississippi:	422	(17)
Senator John Stennis
Attorney Marian Wright
The Filer Commission The Third Sector, 1974	439	(15)
The Political Economy of Nonprofit Revenues, 1993	454	(20)
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Michael Lipsky
Rust v. Sullivan:	474
Chief Justice William Rehnquist