Nonprofit commercial revenue: A replacement for declining government grants and private contributions?

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 686-704

  Kerlin, Janelle A ^a   Pollak, Tom H ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

commercial revenue; government grants; nonprofits; revenue declines

Indexed keywords

EID: 80455129516     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: 15523357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074010387293     Document Type: Article

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