Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, Volunteerism

Providing National Research Leadership and Industry Expertise for the Nonprofit Sector

The Glenn College’s nonprofit programming attracts interdisciplinary students from across Ohio State’s campus. Nonprofit management experts at the Glenn College are building curriculum to meet the growing management needs within the nonprofit world, and our faculty and doctoral students are conducting cutting-edge research on nonprofit organizations and critical issues facing the sector.

Faculty Experts

Glenn Faculty Honored by Association of Fundraising Professionals

Assistant Professors Erynn Beaton and Megan LePere-Schloop are joint winners of the 2022 Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Early Career Emerging Scholar Award for their contributions to research on sexual harassment in fundraising. Their work has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory and Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly. In addition, in partnership with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, they produced “Speaking Truth to Power in Fundraising: A Toolkit,” a combined report of findings from a mixed-methods study of the fundraising workplace, a call to action in addressing sexual harassment in the profession, and a set of resources for taking action. 

Recent Nonprofit Management Research

All Research
Speaking Truth to Power in Fundraising: A Toolkit
Nonprofit Management
May 16, 2022
The report, produced with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, includes a study of the fundraising workplace, a call to action in addressing sexual harassment in the profession, and a set of resources for taking action.
Philanthropic Capital for Communities
Economics
May 02, 2022
This report explores the grantmaking activity of an extensive sample of community foundations and local United Way affiliates, with a particular focus on the support they provide to organizations involved in community and economic development.
Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning
Nonprofit Management
November 28, 2021
This study, published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, uses data on United Ways that e-filed their 990 forms and supervised machine learning to illustrate an approach for classifying a large set of mission descriptions by roles.
Making Disciplinary-Based Theories of the Nonprofit Sector Accessible for Students: An Example Using a Theory From Political Science
Nonprofit Management
October 02, 2021
This paper, published in the Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, introduces a novel pedagogical approach that helps students understand the theories used to teach about the nonprofit sector and how educators can connect theory to current challenges impacting nonprofit organizations.
Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 3 Results
Nonprofit Management
September 17, 2021
The Wave 3 survey results tell a story of the nonprofit sector’s resilience and contribution, and how organizations rallied during the pandemic to provide new services to new populations and to create partnerships with other organizations.
Local Organizational Determinants of Local-International NGO Collaboration
Nonprofit Management
January 07, 2020
This study, published in Public Management Review, explores several local organizational characteristics that may explain the existence of collaborative relations between international and local non-governmental organizations.
A Review of Sexual Harassment Prevention Practices: Toward a Nonprofit Research Agenda
Nonprofit Management
September 01, 2021
This research note uses qualitative analysis to explore the anti-harassment practices recommended to nonprofit practitioners and compares these practices to academic research to develop a nonprofit scholarly research agenda. 
Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field
Nonprofit Management
August 17, 2021
This article, published in the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, describes how nonprofits can use ethnography to enrich research.
International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness
Nonprofit Management
July 09, 2019
This study, published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, explores how centralization, a fundamental structural characteristic, relates to an INGO’s effectiveness as perceived by its own leader versus by leaders of other INGOs.