The sectors of society include not only the government, business, and
nonprofit sectors but also the personal (expanded household) sector. The
nonprofit sector is the fourth (and, if necessary, fifth) sector, not the third
sector. Either the membership sector (member-serving nonprofits) is rec
ognized as a significant part of the nonprofit sector more adequately, or it
should be seen as a fifth sector.
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