Glenn College Nonprofit Management Experts Share Research at ARNOVA

Published Date October 22, 2026
News Type College News

Glenn College nonprofit management faculty include (from left) Associate Professor Megan LePere-Schloop, Associate Professor Erynn Beaton, Professor Brian Mittendorf, Dean Stephanie Moulton, Assistant Professor Long Tran and Assistant Professor—Provost’s Fellow Greg Wilson. 

John Glenn College of Public Affairs faculty and doctoral students will share their expertise and research findings at the Nov. 19-21 conference for ARNOVA, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.  

The ARNOVA conference is designed to create a public conversation on, as well as opportunities for presenting research about, pressing issues and vital opportunities facing the voluntary or nonprofit sector. 

This year’s conference, Igniting Civic Activism: Grassroots and Voluntary Action and Democracy, invites attendees to reflect on the role of voluntary action, nonprofits, philanthropy, and grassroots organizing in shaping civic life.

Meet these experts at the conference:

Associate Professor Erynn Beaton 

  • Panelist, TIBS Colloquium: An “Interpretive Turn” in Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies? Nov. 20 

Christina Dressel, Doctoral Candidate 

  • Chair, Researching Nonprofits in the Age of AI: Workflows, Equity, and Field Action, Nov. 19 
  • Chair, Public–Nonprofit Collaboration in Human Services, Nov. 19 
  • Presenter, Computational Methods and Textual Data in Nonprofit Research, Nov. 19 
  • Presenter, Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Praxis, Nov. 20 
  • Discussant, Responses to Evolving Institutional Pressures in the US, Nov. 20 
  • Co-author, Co-Governing Community Health, Nov. 21 

Professor Brian Mittendorf, Accounting 

  • Co-author, Law and Charitable Giving or Finance, Nov. 20  

Associate Professor Megan LePere-Schloop 

  • Co-author, Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for the Nonprofit Sector, Nov. 19 
  • Co-author, Computational Methods and Textual Data in Nonprofit Research, Nov. 19  

Assistant Professor Long Tran 

  • Chair, Global Civil Society Group's Colloquium: The State of Global Civil Society Data, Nov. 19 
  • Co-author, Public Impact Research: University Faculty as Civic Activists?, Nov. 19 
  • Co-author, NGO and Philanthropy Research: Where we've been, where we are, where we should go, Nov. 20