The Foundation Center's Loretta Ferrari reviews a comprehensive, high-level examination of the theory underlying nonprofit finance, based on the premise that nonprofit finance, being mission-determined, is fundamentally different than corporate or public-sector finance....

With the United Nations having identified global warming, global terrorism, and global aging as "the top three socioeconomic issues of the twenty-first century," Freedman, founder and CEO of  Civic Ventures, argues that reinventing the concept of retirement is essential if we are to address the employment crisis rapidly confronting the aging baby boomer generation....

The Foundation Center's Daniel Matz reviews the book by senior executives at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation the director of the Kauffman-funded Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at New York University, which explains how radical entrepreneurial innovation has and continues to be the foundation of our prosperity....

Michael Dietsch reviews a collection of essays that detail the social and economic trends shaping the new world of philanthropy — including a massive intergenerational transfer of wealth, the changing face of the U.S. population, the growing influence of women in all aspects of American life, and the proliferation of philanthropic models and mechanisms....

Edited by two resident scholars at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this collection on the faltering relationship between foundations and educational institutions proposes a paradigmatic shift toward the accumulation of educational capital by grantseekers and grantmakers....

Like colleges, universities, and private schools, Levenson argues in his new book, public school districts need to move away from "labor-intensive, nickel-and-dime" fundraising events such as bake sales and festivals and pursue larger gifts if they hope to effect real change in their schools....

Damon, Verducci, and their fellow essayists describe a philanthropic field that is filled with people who make their living mediating between donors and recipients but whose "own values and agendas...consciously or not, may diverge from those of the donors and those of the recipients"....

The book, one-third economics lesson, one-third folksy travelogue, and one-third matchless account of literal salvation, argue that microcredit — with its focus on tiny individual investments in the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor — is the most effective and promising philanthropic idea of our time....

Dorsey and Galinsky open their new book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact, with this fact: "62 percent of graduating college seniors are interested in careers related to public service, yet only 9 percent know a great deal [about] how to go about finding a job in the nonprofit sector"....

The Foundation Center's Katherine Don reviews Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group founder and president Otting's guide for those looking to join the swelling ranks of business-minded nonprofit leaders....

Few books on philanthropy merit the accolade "instant classic," but The Foundation has all the ingredients to be considered just that — especially by those whose work and lives are directly affected by foundations. And as Fleishman, a professor of law and public policy at Duke University, makes clear, that means most of us....

PND's Lauren Kelley reviews a guidebook for the young, wealthy, and progressively-minded who believe in social change and are ready to get involved, which provides an introduction to the history of family foundations and how they work as well as a call to action....

The Foundation Center's Daniel Matz reviews the tenth edition of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's To Improve Health and Health Care Anthology, which provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on health and healthcare philanthropy's development as a discipline and to explore the limits of the field's impact on national healthcare policy....

Part of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Fund Development Series, Cause Marketing for Nonprofits aims to show nonprofit executives and trustees, development professionals, and other nonprofit practitioners how they can use this trend to the mutual benefit of themselves and their corporate partners....

PND's Mitch Nauffts reviews Schramm's new book, which argues that for the United States to continue its economic and political leadership in the world — and for the American dream to survive — Americans must see entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship as their central comparative advantage....