Research and Impact

Working to solve the complex problems facing today’s world.

The Glenn College’s world-class faculty brings practical experience and an interdisciplinary approach to research, analysis and technical assistance. Collaborating across policy areas, and with public and private sector organizations, our work seeks to improve public governance and policymaking.

More Research and Impact

Recent Publications

Emergency Food Provision for Children and Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examples from Five U.S. Cities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
2020

Professor Jill Clark uses qualitative data to provide insight into emergency food provision developed in five cities to serve children and families. 

Combining Nonprofit Service and Advocacy: Organizational Structures and Hybridity
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
2020

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how the logics of service provision and political advocacy are combined and managed across a sample of nonprofits.

How Federally Insured Reverse Mortgages Affect the Credit Outcomes of Older Adults
The Journal of Consumer Affairs
2020

Stephanie Moulton's paper explores how extraction of home equity through the federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) affects the credit outcomes of older adults. 

Debt Stress and Debt Illusion: The Role of Consumer Credit, Reverse and Standard Mortgages
The Journals of Gerontology
2020

Stephanie Moulton's study examines the relationship of debt stress and reverse mortgage borrowing and compares it to stress from standard mortgages and consumer debt.

Making community-supported agriculture accessible to low-income families: findings from the Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids process evaluation
Technology Business Management
2020

The purpose of this study was to assess Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids reach, dose, and fidelity via a mixed methods process evaluation.

Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey: A Report of Wave 2 Results
Social Science Research Network
2020

This report contains the results of the Ohio Nonprofit COVID-19 Survey, Wave 2.

The Landscape of Community Philanthropy: Navigating Relationships between local United Ways and Community Foundations
2020

This report summarizes the roles that United Ways and community foundations play in their local communities, their perceptions of the changes going on in the world around them and their perceptions of their relationships with each other.

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Children’s Cognitive Skill Trajectories
Children and Youth Services Review,
2020

Associate Professor Katie Vinopal examines how neighborhood poverty is associated with children’s trajectories of growth in math and reading skills in early elementary school