Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe: Social Change and Organizational Innovation...

S. Wojciech Sokolowski. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001. 259 PP. $65.00.

In the last two decades, there has been an enormous growth of interest in the study of the nonprofit sector. The growth of interest has several sources, but one important source is the recognition that the nonprofit sector (also sometimes called the third sector, the independent sector, the non-governmental sector, etc.) has been growing. As philanthropic giving increases, as governments shed and outsource what had previously been governmental functions, and as people recognize the utility