Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Nonprofit Crisis explores the challenges facing the American nonprofit sector in an era of political polarization. One of the hidden strengths of American society, nonprofit organizations have traditionally operated under the radar, providing crucial services and helping knit together a diverse society. No longer. In recent years, the culture wars have come for American nonprofits. The left argues that the “nonprofit industrial complex” doesn’t really care about solving social problems. The right believes that nonprofits are prime drivers of wokeness, foisting unpopular ideas on the American public. With nonprofits under attack from all sides, public confidence in the sector has begun to ebb away. What is to be done? How should nonprofit leaders respond to the challenges currently confronting them, including political polarization, generational change, and calls for racial justice? And in an era of public disenchantment with institutions of all kinds, is it possible to restore trust in America’s nonprofit organizations? These are the questions that The Nonprofit Crisis seeks to answer.</jats:p>