3 Paths That Could Shape Nonprofits

“For some nonprofit managers, the daily grind makes it difficult to see the forest between the trees for a single organization.

In his book “The Resilient Sector Revisited,” author and well-regarded academic Lester M. Salamon endeavors to take a 10,000-foot view of the nonprofit sector as a whole, including its current challenges and future prospects. In the book, Salamon envisions three potential futures for the sector.

1. Nonprofits could coast along with the status quo while increasing reliance on commercial support. Given governments’ need for nonprofits in policy areas and managers’ increasing ability to balance tasks, the sector could be sustained under this method, but may see its market share, mission-critical functions and benefits such as tax exemption slip away.”

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