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Sustaining Nonprofit Performance
The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must …
Making Nonprofits Work
The nonprofit sector has never been under greater pressure to prove itself. With missions expanding and funding never more competitive, the sector suffers from a general impression …
The Search for Social Entrepreneurship
Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship , Paul Light explores this surge of interest …
Driving Social Change
Strategies for long-term social impact This important new book illustrates how to create the social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent global threats such as poverty, disease, …
True Size of Government
This book addresses a seemingly simple question: Just how many people really work for the federal government? Official counts show a relatively small total of 1.9 million full-time …
Baby Boomers
The generation of those born between 1946 and 1964 already makes up an overwhelming 60 percent of the electorate. Faced with a shrinking future, this diverse group confronts …
The Tides of Reform
During the past fifty years, the Congresses and presidents of the United States have made many efforts to improve the performance of the federal government. In this book, a leading …
Government's Greatest Achievements
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past …
Sustaining Innovation
Paul Light has captured the spirit of innovation. It is not about spectacular acts by individuals who labor against the odds, but about the hard work of building organizations in …
Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh
Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh is a eclectic and exciting gathering of poem and prose-poem manifestos and unmanifestos that try to understand what poetry is and who or what …
Government by Investigation
A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationPaul C. Light examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic …
Forging Legislation
A former staff member of the Senate Government Operations Committee describes the effort to include a provision for judicial review in the bill establishing the Veteran's Affairs …