ABSTRACT
The independent sector often puts its resources to work magnificently. The independent sector plays a large but shrinking role in America. The independent Sears Foundation puts doctors in rural areas by showing communities exactly how they can attract and hold young doctors. But the independent sector, in spite of its great strength and sporadically incredible achievements, is rapidly falling behind the burgeoning commercial and government sectors. The independent sector still serves important needs in recreation and culture. But the government is moving rapidly into these fields—often, as in Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—with the help of independent funds. The welfare agency, in the independent sector, still operates in the nineteenth century, and is genially content with rustic methods. Naturally the independent sector loses ground when it attempts to use cracker-barrel methods on space-age problems.
