> Did nonprofits and NGOs grow out of the sixties--or out of pacification
>monies, and how? Does anyone know?
>Paula
Paula,
If you mean by nonprofits tax-exempt foundations, then they really
exploded in the 1950s and early 1960s - with a subsequent explosion on the
Right in the 1980s. This became a hot issue for Congressman Wright Patman
(D.-Texas) in the early 1960s, and he launched a moderately successful
effort to curb many of the abuses - whereby individuals with large
corporations created foundations and then "sold" the foundation all stock
in their corporation - avoiding all taxes - the best example of this
occurred, I believe, in the 1930s when Henry Ford did this to create the
Ford Foundation - Howard Hughes did it in the mid-1950s - as have others.
John
John Andrew email: J_ANDREW@ACAD.FANDM.EDU
Department of History fax 717-399-4518
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, PA. 17604-3003
"Fantasy Will Set You Free" - Steppenwolf
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