January 15, 2009

America's Greatest 'Public Works'

By Clara Miller

America's most crucial infrastructure is strained to the breaking point, but few Americans notice it. That's because it's not the bridges and tunnels and other public works that are at issue — it's the nonprofit groups that have been doing more with less for so long that the public has come to accept overtaxed and poorly financed community services and a tattered social safety net as business as usual.

The mounting stress on nonprofit organizations did not begin with the

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