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By Dwight F. Burlingame

A landmark three-volume reference paintings documenting philanthropy and the nonprofit area all through American background, edited by way of the field's most generally famous authority.

• Over two hundred A–Z entries on humans, occasions, agencies, and concepts in U.S. philanthropic history

• approximately 2 hundred contributors―distinguished students from quite a few disciplines

• Over seventy five basic resource records from the bad legislation of 1601 to excerpts from the Filer fee document of 1975

• Chronology of significant occasions in philanthropic history

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