Abstract
Nonprofit management education programs have grown dramatically and developed in a variety of ways within universities in the United States over the past three decades. This paper utilizes a conceptual framework of ecology and evolution in a market context to explain these developments and to consider how university-based nonprofit management education may evolve in the future. The demand for nonprofit management education is explained in terms of basic changes in the economic and social environment of nonprofit organizations in the U.S. The emergence, growth, and differentiation of university-based nonprofit management education programs is seen as a supply response to these environmental changes, driven by entrepreneurial forces within a varied university context. The juxtaposition of supply and demand forces enables consideration of how university-based nonprofit management education can evolve to become more useful to society and more secure within the university context in the future.
