The Nonprofit Quarterly’s Study on Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure

Elizabeth T. Boris, David O. Renz, Rick Cohen and Dr. Paul Light

May 7, 2009

7	Setting the Stage: The Nonprofit Infrastructure as Accelerant
	by Elizabeth Boris
9	Introduction
11	Executive Summary
17	Project Research Methodology
21	Context, Trends and Implications
29	The U.S. Nonprofit Infrastructure Mapped
	by David O. Renz
	Map 1: The U.S. National Nonprofit Infrastructure
	Map 2: The U.S. National Philanthropic Infrastructure
35	Infrastructure Grantmaking: Summary With Key Findings
	by Rick Cohen
51	Financial Models for Infrastructure Organizations
	by Tom Clough and David Brown, with the assistance of David Renz
65	Four Futures
	by Paul C. Light
69	Recommendations

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About the authors

Elizabeth T. Boris

Elizabeth T. Boris, Ph.D., is the director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute.

David O. Renz

David O. Renz is the Beth K. Smith/Missouri Chair in Nonprofit Leadership and the director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, an education, research, and outreach center of the Department of Public Affairs in the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Rick Cohen

Rick joined NPQ in 2006, after almost eight years as the executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). Before that he played various roles as a community worker and advisor to others doing community work. He also worked in government. Cohen pursued investigative and analytical articles, advocated for increased philanthropic giving and access for disenfranchised constituencies, and promoted increased philanthropic and nonprofit accountability.

Dr. Paul Light

Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and a part-time senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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