Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy and Voluntary Action

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.

Public Performance and Management Review

2018

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

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.

Maham Ali

Long Tran