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The vitality and independence of religious organizations

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Thomas H. Jeavons is the general secretary (chief executive) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the largest Quaker judicatory in the United States, a position he has held since 1996. He is also a visiting fellow at the Yale University Program on Nonprofit Organizations, at the Yale Divinity School. He is author of most recently Growing Givers' Hearts: Fundraising as a Ministry (2000).

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Jeavons, T.H. The vitality and independence of religious organizations. Society 40, 27–36 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-003-1049-1

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