The State of Nonprofit America

by Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences (Author), Policy and Global Affairs (Author), Resilience, and Extreme Events Roundtable on Risk (Author), Sherrie Forrest (Editor)
Over the past decade, resilience has gained significant traction across the nation and innovative programs are showing exciting progress in building resilient communities

In many countries, particularly in continental Europe, societies have been plagued by high unemployment for several decades.

Exposure to noise at home, at work, while traveling, and during leisure activities is a fact of life for all Americans.

Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United States.