Jewish Nonprofit Organizations in the U.S.: A Preliminary Survey
@article{Burstein2011JewishNO, title={Jewish Nonprofit Organizations in the U.S.: A Preliminary Survey}, author={Paul Burstein}, journal={Contemporary Jewry}, year={2011}, volume={31}, pages={129-148} }
Organizations are at the heart of American Jewish life. Though there has been considerable research on specific organizations and types of organizations, there has been very little on the overall organizational structure of the Jewish community. This article takes some preliminary steps in that direction. It pulls together historical data on American Jewish organizations and data on contemporary Jewish organizations from a source not previously used: the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s database…
6 Citations
Fear, Fantasy, and Family: Israel's Significance to American Jews
- Sociology
- 2014
Author(s): Minkin, Sarah Anne | Advisor(s): Ray, Raka | Abstract: This dissertation investigates the construction and maintenance of ethnic boundaries in the face of contestation over core values.…
Mahjonging Together: Distribution, Financial Capacity, and Activities of Asian Nonprofit Organizations in Canada
- Economics
- 2014
Using a nationwide database of nonprofit organizations, this thesis examines the impact of the socio-spatial environment and resource dependency on the development of ethnic organizations among four…
Income Concentration Trends and Competition in the Charitable Sector: An Analysis of Jewish Charities in England and Wales
- EconomicsContemporary Jewry
- 2019
Jewish charities are a subgroup of about two thousand, five hundred organizations, accounting for 1.5% of the total number of main charities in England and Wales. The increasing total income of…
Reflections on My Jewish Habitus and Perspectives
- Sociology
- 2014
This essay discusses the intersection of personal and professional influences on the author’s work and perspectives in Jewish studies. In particular the role of “bonding” and “bridging” capital is…
Ethno-Religious Philanthropy: Lessons from a Study of United States Jewish Philanthropy
- SociologyContemporary Jewry
- 2019
This article discusses methodological challenges to the study of Jewish philanthropy. Based on a study of US Jewish-founded grant-making organizations between 2000 and 2015, the article examines…
Jewish Identification Differentials in Israel and in the United States: Similarity Structure Analysis
- PsychologyContemporary Jewry
- 2019
Because of the complex nature of Jewish identification and its reliance on a variety of measurable concepts, studies of identification patterns and trends should rely on an assessment of several…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 34 REFERENCES
Jewish American Voluntary Organizations
- History
- 1986
This comprehensive reference work contains historical sketches of over 125 national and local voluntary organizations. The articles are arranged in an A to Z format and provide information on the…
Nonprofit Organizations in American History
- Political Science
- 2002
Every question concerning U.S. nonprofit organizations and its nonprofit sector as a whole has a historical dimension. Changing state and federal laws have always determined both what nonprofit…
The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 18401940
- Political ScienceJournal of Interdisciplinary History
- 1999
The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, I840-1940 Americans are a civic people. Next to the mass political party, probably no aspect of American democracy has been more celebrated than the…
A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
- Political ScienceAmerican Political Science Review
- 2000
We challenge the widely held view that classic American voluntary groups were tiny, local, and disconnected from government. Using newly collected data to develop a theoretically framed account, we…
Jewish Educational and Economic Success in the United States: A Search for Explanations
- History
- 2007
Jews are much more successful economically and educationally than other ethnic, racial, and religious groups in the United States. This article asks why. It begins with a description of how well Jews…
National Jewish population survey 2000–01: A guide for the perplexed
- Environmental Science
- 2005
The National Jewish Population Survey 2000–01 (NJPS) has been the focus of substantial controversy and misinterpretation. Because of both its design and implementation, there are numerous…
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations
- History
- 2002
This two-part special issue of American Behavioral Scientist (that is, this volume and the one that will follow it in July 2002) emerged from the work of the Social Science Research Council’s…
Interorganizational influences on the founding of african american organizations, 1955–1985
- Business
- 1995
This paper examines the relationship between traditions of social action and patterns of organizational development, using data on the formation of national African American protest, advocacy, and…
Ethnic Conflict and the Rise and Fall of Ethnic Newspapers
- History, Sociology
- 1991
Contemporary research on collective action claims that organizations play a central role in facilitating many kinds of collective actions. We reverse the causal link and ask whether ethnic conflict…
Nonprofit Organization Data
- Economics
- 2002
Better information on the nonprofit sector in the United States is needed to help answer questions about the impact and accountability of nonprofits. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 is…