Elizabeth T. Boris is the founding director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, which she has led since 1996, at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. She is the author of many research publications and articles on philanthropy and nonprofits, coeditor with C. Eugene Steuerle of the first edition of Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict and After Katrina: Public Expectation and Charities Response, and coauthor of Working in Foundations: Career Patterns of Women and Men. Dr. Boris was the first director of the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund at the Aspen Institute from 1991 to 1996. She serves on many boards and is past president of ARNOVA.
C. Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a columnist for Tax Notes magazine, and a codirector the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Among other positions, he has served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis (1987-1989), president of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), chair of the 1999 technical panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, economic coordinator and original organizer of the 1984 Treasury study that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of close to 1,000 articles and briefs and 14 books. His research on charity and philanthropy includes studies on the patterns of giving by the wealthy, the effect of taxes on charitable giving, payout rates for foundations, and ways of simplifying and reforming tax rules for charitable contributions and charitable giving.
Nonprofits and Government, Second Edition, Edited by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 466 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-732-2, $29.50).
