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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.

Encouraging the Collection of Performance Data in Nonprofit Organizations: The Importance of Organizational Support for Learning
Public Performance and Management Review
2018

Professor Russell Hassan provides insight into how to facilitate performance data collection within nonprofit organizations

Making Disciplinary-Based Theories of the Nonprofit Sector Accessible for Students: An Example Using a Theory From Political Science
Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership
2021

Professor Megan LePere-Schloop introduces a novel pedagogical approach that helps students understand the theories used to teach about the nonprofit sector and how educators can connect theory to current challenges impacting nonprofit organizations.

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