Editing Voluntary sector (section)

==Concerns==
The entry of nonprofit organizations into commercial activities (competing with the private sector) was identified in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Weisbrod|first1=Burton|date=1998|title=To Profit or Not to Profit: the Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> There have also been concerns about the financial accountability of the nonprofit sector throughout [[Western culture|Western society]].<ref>Gettler, L. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/nonprofits-can-be-more-accountable/2007/05/30/1180205336926.html "Non-profits can be more accountable"], ''The Age''. May 31, 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2007.</ref> There is also ongoing concern whether the nonprofit sector will unequally draw retiring workers from the private sector as the currently large [[Post-World War II baby boom|baby boomers]] age.<ref>{{cite web |author=The Conference Board |agency=PRNewswire |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,114420.shtml |title=Non-Profit Firms Face Many Challenges and Some Opportunities With Advent of Retirement of Baby-Boom Generation |website=Earth Times |date=May 31, 2007 |access-date=June 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010100534/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,114420.shtml |archive-date= Oct 10, 2007 }}</ref> Development of the third sector, it is argued, is linked to the restructuring of the welfare state and further globalization of that process through neo-liberal strategies of the [[Washington consensus]].<ref name="global">Pawel Zaleski ''Global Non-governmental Administrative System: Geosociology of the Third Sector'', [in] Gawin, Dariusz & Glinski, Piotr [ed.]: "Civil Society in the Making", IFiS Publishers, Warszawa 2006</ref>

In a 2013 ''[[New York Times]]'' op-ed and radio podcast, ''The Charitable-Industrial Complex'', [[Peter Buffett]] uses the terms "philanthropic colonialism" and "conscience laundering", and describes his insights into "searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left" rather than systemic change.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Buffett
| first = Peter
| title = The Charitable-Industrial Complex
| work = [[The New York Times]]
| access-date = 2014-01-03
| date = 2013-07-26
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html
|url-access=subscription
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode
| publisher = KCRW 89.9 FM
| credits = Matt Miller (Director)
| title = The Charitable Industrial Complex – Peter Buffett
| series = This...Is Interesting
| access-date = 2014-01-03
| date = 2013-11-06
| url = http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/in/in131106the_charitable_indus
}}</ref>