Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University.
Patricia Bromley is Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University.

1. What Is the Nonprofit Sector?
-Walter W. Powell
2. A History of Associational Life and the Nonprofit Sector in the United States
-Benjamin Soskis
3. Seeing Like a Philanthropist: From the Business of Benevolence to the Benevolence of Business
-Aaron Horvath and Walter W. Powell
4. The Organizational Transformation of Civil Society
-Patricia Bromley
5. Tangled Up in Tax: The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Tax System
-Daniel J. Hemel
6. Political Theory and the Nonprofit Sector
-Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich
7. Nonprofits as Boundary Markers: The Politics of Choice, Mobilization, and Arbitrage
-Elisabeth S. Clemens
8. Politics, Philanthropy, and Inequality
-Sarah Reckhow
9. Toward a Governance Framework for Government-Nonprofit Relations
-Nicole P. Marwell and Maoz Brown
10. Social Service Nonprofits: Navigating Conflicting Demands
-Jennifer E. Mosley
11. Nonprofits as Urban Infrastructure
-Christof Brandtner and Claire Dunning
12. Immigrant Organizations: Civic (In)equality and Civic (In)visibility
-Irene Bloemraad, Shannon Gleeson, and Els de Graauw
13. Economic Theories of the Social Sector: From Nonprofits to Social Enterprise
-Maitreesh Ghatak
14. Social Entrepreneurship: Research as Disciplined Exploration
-Johanna Mair
15. Nonprofits and the Environment: Using Market Forces for Social Good
-Magali A. Delmas, Thomas P. Lyon, and Sean Jackson
16. The Outcomes Movement in Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
-Paul Brest
17. Charitable Nonprofits and the Business of Health Care
-Jill R. Horwitz
18. Education and the Nonprofit Sector: Schools and Organizational Intermediaries
-Richard Arum and Jacob L. Kepins
19. Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Sustainability and Rationales for Support
-Francie Ostrower
20. Advocacy, Civic Engagement, and Social Change
-David Suárez
21. The Changing Face of Nonprofit Advocacy: Democratizing Potentials and Risks in an Unequal Context
-Edward T. Walker and Yotala Oszkay Febres-Cordero
22. Advocating for What? The Nonprofit Press and Models of the Public
-Mike Ananny
23. What Influences Charitable Giving?
-Pamela Paxton
24. The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving
-Laura K. Gee and Jonathan Meer
25. What Do Volunteers Do?
-Nina Eliasoph
26. Religious Organizations: Crosscutting the Nonprofit Sector
-Brad R. Fulton
27. The Global Rise of Nongovernmental Organizations
-Evan Schofer and Wesley Longhofer
28. Global Backlash Against Foreign Funding to Domestic Nongovernmental Organizations
-Kendra Dupuy and Aseem Prakash
29. Social Movements in a Global Context: History, Content, and Form
-Breno Bringel and Elizabeth McKenna
30. Comparative Nonprofit Sector Research: A Critical Assessment
-Helmut K. Anheier, Markus Lang, and Stefan Toepler