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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.

The Lived Experience of Managerialization: Understanding Values Conflict in Nonprofits through a Pragmatic Institutionalism
Journal of Management Studies
2020

Professor Erynn Beaton focuses on the lived experiences of organization members and advancing a pragmatic institutionalism.

Speaking Truth to Power in Fundraising: A Toolkit
Association of Fundraising Professionals
2022

Erynn Beaton and Megan LePere-Schloop study the fundraising workplace, address sexual harassment in the profession, and set resources for taking action. 

Philanthropic Capital for Communities
Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia
2022

This report from Megan LePere-Schloop 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.

Institutional Leadership: Maintaining Mission Integrity in the Era of Managerialism
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
2021

Professor Erynn Beaton develops a framework of practices nonprofit leaders can use to maintain mission integrity

Ethnography: Tales of the Nonprofit Field
International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
2021

Professor Erynn Beaton describes how nonprofits can use ethnography to enrich research.

No Margin, No Mission: How Practitioners Justify Nonprofit Managerialization
International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
2019

Professor Erynn Beaton examines how nonprofit practitioners respond to pressures to enact business practices.

Responding to Failure: the Promise of Market Mending for Social Enterprise
Public Management Review
2021

Professor Erynn Beaton examines the role social enterprise plays in society as more non-profits embrace it.

Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop 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.

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