Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy and Voluntary Action

Charitable Objectives or Donor Benefits? What Sponsor Language Reveals About Donor-Advised Fund Priorities and Resource Flows

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2025

The research, conducted by Professor Brian Mittendorf, shows that donor-advised funds balance client service and mission impact, and the language they use in public outreach can predict their priorities and behavior.

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

2014

This research addresses the accountability dynamics in local government contracting by analyzing the decisions public managers make to determine whether they sanction contractors for unsatisfactory performance.

Nonprofit Policy Forum

2024

This research study empirically examines the ways that service-providing nonprofit organizations advocate on behalf of their disadvantaged clients.

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2024

Long Tran and Stéphane Lavertu examine how nonprofit charter schools’ reliance on for-profit operators affects student achievement and attendance

The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

American Economic Review

2024

Alex Hollingsworth explores how access to modern hospitals and medicine affects short-run and long-run mortality.

An Invisible Impediment to Progress: Perceptions of Racialization in the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2024

Greg Wilson's paper in NVSQ challenges race-neutral perceptions of the nonprofit sector by showing how Black-led organizations perceive racialization across key areas central to success: leadership, funding, data, collaboration, and volunteering.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2024

Long Tran, Russell Hassan and Darwin Baluran examine how perceived racial discrimination relates to political and community civic engagement among people of Asian descent after COVID-19.

Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2024

Megan LePere-Schloop uses a simultaneous qualitative mixed methods design to describe organizational paths to community leadership while considering field-level aspiration toward such change.

Nonprofit Policy Forum

2022

This report provides a brief overview of research on sexual misconduct in the nonprofit sector, a summary of the colloquium discussion, and suggested directions for resolution.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2021

Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop examines the development of a critical framework for mapping civil society in the digital age, highlighting concerns about computational methods and the power dynamics in knowledge production.