A New Era of Collaborative Government-Nonprofit Relations in the U.S.?

Abstract

The growth of the nonprofit sector in the last decades and its greater salience in the delivery of public goods and services has been accompanied by the development of new institutions and processes for managing the relations between nonprofits and governments. This article documents a number of recent initiatives to strengthen government-nonprofit relations in the U.S. and analyzes the policy agendas that are driving them.

Keywords

• government-nonprofit relations
• partnerships
• compacts
• collaborations