Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy and Voluntary Action

Are Donor-Advised Funds Facilitating Opaque Giving to Politically Engaged Charities?

Nonprofit Policy Forum

2025

The Political Embeddedness of Voluntary Action: The Case of Local Philanthropic COVID-19 Relief Funds

Administration & Society

2023

Megan LePere-Schloop and colleagues show that political engagement, policy signaling, and competition help activate local voluntary action, as seen in the creation of community COVID-19 relief funds.

The antecedents of conformity in an institutionalized federated system: The case of local united ways

Nonprofit Management & Leadership

2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and colleagues find that middle-performing United Way organizations are most likely to adopt the national network’s community impact language, refining the theory of middle-status conformity within federated systems.

Interdisciplinary knowledge integration in public affairs scholarship: An empirical analysis of the contributions of public administration, policy sciences, and nonprofit studies

Journal of Public Affairs Education

2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and her colleague analyze nearly a million journal citations to compare how public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies integrate interdisciplinary knowledge, finding distinct patterns shaped by each field’s origins and practices.

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

Nonprofit Policy Foum

2024

Erynn Beaton and colleagues find that nonprofits serving disadvantaged populations use advocacy tactics at higher rates than other organizations, with effectiveness shaped by tactical repertoires, client participation, funding, and policy context.

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.

A Closer Look at Contract Accountability: Exploring the Determinants of Sanctions for Unsatisfactory Contract Performance

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.

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

2025

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.