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Giving Voice: Examining the Tactical Repertoires of Nonprofit Advocacy for Disadvantaged Populations
Nonprofit Policy Forum
2024

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

For-profit milk in nonprofit cartons? The case of nonprofit charter schools subcontracting with for-profit education management organizations
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. 

“We Expected a Revolution and Got a Slow Burn”: Microfoundations of Institutional Change in the Community Foundation Field
Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2023

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.

Sexual Misconduct: Policies to Improve Institutional Accountability and Reduce Individual Burdens
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.

Mapping Civil Society in the Digital Age: Critical Reflections From a Project Based in the Global South
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.

Disciplinary Contributions to Nonprofit Studies: A 20-Year Empirical Mapping of Journals Publishing Nonprofit Research and Journal Citations by Nonprofit Scholars
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2022

Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop analyzes nonprofit research published between 1999 and 2019, both within and outside of three core nonprofit journals.

The Nexus of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Nonprofit Studies: An Empirical Mapping of Research Topics and Knowledge Integration
Public Administration Review
2022

Megan LePere-Schloop examines the empirical knowledge integration among public administration (PA), public policy studies (PP), and nonprofit studies (nonprofit), revealing low citation rates between PA/PP and nonprofit journals, and identifies three categories effectively integrating knowledge from these fields.

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