“For decades, we tended to think of nonprofits
and philanthropy as primarily Anglo-American
institutions. Only recently have we begun to
fully appreciate…the fact that the post-World
War II emergence of nonprofits and NGOs has
been part of a global associational revolution.
This revolution involved not only the
proliferation of indigenous NGOs, but also
global and transnational organizations,
associations, and coalitions addressing a wide
variety of issues.”
Peter
Dobkin Hall,
“What Counts as Nonprofit News,” 2011
Senior Research Fellow
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
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Peter Dobkin
Hall is a senior research fellow at the Hauser
Center for Nonprofit Organizations and
professor of history and theory at School of
Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University
of New York. He writes the weekly blog,
Nonprofit News and Comment (http://hausercenter.org/npnews).
His current research interests include the
development of the welfare state and social
welfare policy, the role of educational
institutions in creating leadership and civic
engagement, and the emergence of transnational
institutions, communities, and identities.
Professor Hall previously served as lecturer on
nonprofit organizations at the Harvard Kennedy
School. Earlier, he served as director of Yale
University’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations
(PONPO) and held teaching appointments in
Yale’s Department of History, School of
Management, Divinity School, and Program in
Ethics, Politics and Economics. His many
publications include Inventing the
Nonprofit Sector: Essays on Philanthropy,
Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001),
Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic
Families in Late Twentieth Century America
(with George E Marcus; Westview Press, 1992),
and The Organization of American Culture,
1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and
the Origins of American Nationality (NYU
Press, 1984).
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