Nonprofit Faculty to Share Expertise at ARNOVA

Published Date November 05, 2025
News Type College News

Glenn College nonprofit management faculty include (from left) Associate Professor Megan LePere-Schloop, Associate Professor Erynn Beaton, Professor Brian Mittendorf, Professor 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. 20-22 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.

Meet these experts at the conference:

Maham Ali, Doctoral Candidate

  • Panelist, Stakeholder Preferences for Color-Blind and Anti-Racist Approaches in Philanthropy: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment, Nov. 20

Associate Professor Erynn Beaton

  • Chair, Opening Plenary Session, Nov. 20

Christina Dressel, Doctoral Candidate

  • Panelist, Demonstrating Accountability: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Community Foundation Annual Reports, Nov. 20
  • Panelist, Measuring Institutional Logics with LLMs and Human-in-the-Loop, Nov. 21

Associate Professor Megan LePere-Schloop

  • Panelist, Contributions of Nonprofit Studies to Resource Dependence Theory, Nov. 20
  • Chair, Democratizing Nonprofit Research: What Enhanced 990 Data Infrastructure Enables, Nov. 20
  • Presenter, A Transcendent View of Qualitative Data: From Traditional to Computational Research for Nonprofit Scholars, Nov. 21
  • Panelist, Profiles of Civil Society Organizations Shaping AI Governance, Nov. 21
  • Chair, Artificial Intelligence and Nonprofit Studies, Nov. 21
  • Panelist, Civil Society Organizations and AI Governance in the Global South, Nov. 221
  • Chair, Data and Analytics Colloquium: The State of Data for Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, Nov. 22

Professor Brian Mittendorf, Accounting

  • Panelist, Do Donor-Advised Funds Enable Mission Focus or Mission Creep?, Nov. 20
  • Chair, Navigating Trust, Voice, and Legitimacy: NGOs’ Relational Strategies in Politically Tumultuous Contexts, Nov. 21

Assistant Professor Long Tran

  • Presenter, The Future of International NGOs: Organizational Transformation in Times of Crisis, Nov. 20
  • Presenter, Data and Analytics Colloquium: The State of Data for Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, Nov. 22

Assistant Professor—Provost’s Fellow Greg Wilson

  • Presenter, A Transcendent View of Qualitative Data: From Traditional to Computational Research for Nonprofit Scholars, Nov. 21