Nuno S. Themudo is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.

"This book is an important contribution to comparative nonprofit studies, and it deserves to be carefully read and debated. It is an exemplary research project, offering an important and intriguing puzzle, a solid review and critique of alternative explanations, an interdisciplinary approach to theory-building and empirical testing, and original data. . . . It is no small challenge to offer an empirically rigorous and theoretically rich and coherent explanation of nonprofit sector development, and this work rises to that challenge admirably."—Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

• Preface1. A Cross-National Philanthropic Puzzle2. A Risk Perspective on the Nonprofit Sector3. Economic Development, Risk and the Nonprofit Sector in Cross-National Perspective4. When Crisis Hits: Lessons of Courage and Compromise5. The Long-term Impact of Economic Risk on Nonprofit Sector Strength6. Nonprofit Sector in Crisis: Implications and Strategies for Risk ManagementNotesBibliographyIndex

Nuno S. Themudo is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.

"This book is an important contribution to comparative nonprofit studies, and it deserves to be carefully read and debated. It is an exemplary research project, offering an important and intriguing puzzle, a solid review and critique of alternative explanations, an interdisciplinary approach to theory-building and empirical testing, and original data. . . . It is no small challenge to offer an empirically rigorous and theoretically rich and coherent explanation of nonprofit sector development, and this work rises to that challenge admirably."—Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

• Preface1. A Cross-National Philanthropic Puzzle2. A Risk Perspective on the Nonprofit Sector3. Economic Development, Risk and the Nonprofit Sector in Cross-National Perspective4. When Crisis Hits: Lessons of Courage and Compromise5. The Long-term Impact of Economic Risk on Nonprofit Sector Strength6. Nonprofit Sector in Crisis: Implications and Strategies for Risk ManagementNotesBibliographyIndex