found: Baltimore sun WWW site, viewed Sept. 2, 2021(in obituary dated Aug 29, 2021: Lester Salamon; Lester Milton Salamon, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies and a renowned researcher on nonprofits, died Aug. 20. The Arnold resident was 78; born in 1943 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Salamon studied economics and policy studies at Princeton University, later receiving a doctorate in government from Harvard University. In the late 1970s, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve as deputy associate director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, where he became interested in government funding to nonprofit organizations, a passion that defined his work for the rest of his life. He worked as a researcher and managed the Urban Institute's Nonprofit Sector before leaving for the Johns Hopkins University, where he worked for 40 years and founded the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Civil Society Studies. At the time of his death, Mr. Salamon was a political science professor, the director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins, and was the founding scientific director of the International Laboratory for Nonprofit Sector Studies at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow)
