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Harding, Matthew --- "Introduction to the Research Handbook on Not-For-Profit Law" [2018] ELECD 1340; in Harding, Matthew (ed), "Research Handbook on Not-For-Profit Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 1

Book Title: Research Handbook on Not-For-Profit Law

Editor(s): Harding, Matthew

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785369988

Section Title: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Not-For-Profit Law

Author(s): Harding, Matthew

Number of pages: 14

Extract:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Not-For-Profit Law Matthew Harding
It is an interesting time for not-for-profit law.1 Trends in the social, economic and political lives of many communities, and in geopolitics, have created new opportunities ­ or, viewed from another perspective, new burdens ­ for the not-for-profit sector, which in turn have demanded new legal and regulatory responses. All over the world, not-for-profits are now expected and funded by government to provide a range of social welfare services and public goods, and increasingly they are expected to compete with for-profit organizations in what many conceptualize as the market for such provision. At the same time, globalization has affected the not-for-profit sector as much as it has any other sphere of human activity, raising particular challenges for states seeking to protect and preserve their political sovereignty and culture as well as their revenue base. The composition and preoccupations of the not-for-profit sector are ever changing, the result of disparate influences such as social media, the appeal of business models and managerial cultures traditionally associated with the for-profit sector, changes in the way politics is conducted, and shifts in conventional morality. Moreover, the profound challenges of rising inequality around the world must be met by the not-for-profit sector as much as by government and the commercial world. The instruments of law and regulation play a fundamental role in ensuring that the not-for-profit sector can ...