Lester Salamon

Lester M. Salamon is a professor at The Johns Hopkins University. In addition he is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. Salamon has written or edited over 20 books, and articles that have appeared in "Foreign Affairs", the "New York Times", "Voluntas", and numerous other publications. He is considered by many experts in his field to be a leading specialist on alternative tools of government action and on the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and around the world.

Biography

Salamon graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Policy Studies from Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He holds the position of Chairman of the Board of the Community Foundation of the Chesapeake and is a member of the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector. He was the Director of the Center for Governance and Management Research at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. also Deputy Associate Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.

In 1982, Salamon published his book, "The Federal Budget and the Nonprofit Sector", which was among the first to state the scale of the American nonprofit sector and talk about the extent of government support for it. Dr. Salamon later completed an empirical assessment of international nonprofits, and went on to publish his observations in several books. He is well known for writing "", a book used commonly as a college textbook.

In 1996 Salamon won the 1996 Arnova Award for Distinguished Book in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Writing Partners in Public Service: Government and the Nonprofit Sector in the Modern Welfare State. Another book of his, ', which was produced in association with a team of colleagues from around the world, won the Virginia Hodgkinson Award for best publication in the nonprofit field in 2001. His writings are remarkable where he has written more than a dozen books, where his most recent writings are ' (Oxford University Press, 2002) and "" (Brookings Institution Press, 2003). Salamon continues to teach at Johns Hopkins University and lecture around the world.

Citations

* [http://ips.jhu.edu/mpp/faculty/salamon.html John Hopkins University]
* [http://www.nonprofitpanel.org/participants/eag/salamon_lester_m Panel on the Non-profit sector]