Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES; 1 The American Nonprofit Sector -- A Historical Framing Toward Understanding Modern Day Approaches to Federal Policy, Advocacy, and Contracting; 2 Nonprofit-Government Relationships in New York City; 3 State Perspective: Texas's Perspective on StateGovernment-Nonprofit Relations; 4 Federal Perspective: The Shifting Partnership Between Governmentand Nonprofits and its Implications for Federal Policy. 5 Federal Case Study: Recent US Federal Policy-Identifying Evidence and Going Broad and Deep inthe Effort to Achieve Nonprofit Impact at ScalePart II INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES; 6 A Bridge Between US and International Perspectives: Deliberate Relations Between Governments and Nonprofits ; 7 Australia: Federal Government and Nonprofit Relationsin Australia ; 8 Trinidad and Tobago: The Nonprofit Sector and Government in Trinidad and Tobago; 9 Scotland: Why Service Design is the Most Important Discipline You've Never Heard Of-A Scottish Perspective.

In the US, as in many other Western economies, federal and state government is working to become more involved with the nonprofit sector; a sector in which many of the organizations are singularly ill-prepared and strategically unaligned to fulfill the new role that is being asked of them. Based on his original research, John Brothers brings together leading thought leaders from the United States and around the world by exploring the prevailing attitudes and perceptions of the nonprofit sector towards government and vice versa and provides advice and direction to help both sides of the equat