Conferences & Awards

Conference Awards – Past Winners

Each year during the Annual ARNOVA Conference, awards are presented to individuals for their outstanding achievements in nonprofit and voluntary action research.

Each year during the Annual ARNOVA Conference, awards are presented to individuals for their outstanding achievements. Throughout the years, these awards and scholarships have positioned ARNOVA as an association that recognizes scholars, leaders, and practitioners' accomplishments, promoting and supporting nonprofit and voluntary action research.

Award Categories

Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research

YearWinnerDetails
2025 Ram Cnaan
University of Pennsylvania		  
2023 Richard Steinberg  
2022 Alan Abramson  
2021 Judith Saidel & Jack Quarter (Posthumously)  
2020 Melissa Stone  
2019 Susan Ostrander & Dwight Burlingame  
2018 Evelyn Brody  
2017 David Renz  
2016 Thomasina Borkman  
2015 Jeffrey L. Brudney  
2014 Joseph Galaskiewicz  
2013 Steven Rathgeb Smith  
2012 David Hammack  
2011 Margaret E. Harris  
2010 Robert D. Herman  
2009 Marion Fremont-Smith  
2008 Peter Dobkin Hall  
2007 Joel Fleishman  
2006 Elizabeth Boris  
2005 Kirsten Gronbjerg  
2004 Dennis Young  
2003 Lester M. Salamon  
2002 Victor V. Murray  
2001 Felice Perlmutter  
2000 Robert L. Payton  
1999 David E. Mason  
1998 John G. Simon  
1997 Burton Weisbrod  
1996 Virginia A. Hodgkinson  
1995 Amitai Etzioni & David Billis  
1994 Jon Van Til & Ralph M. Kramer  
1993 David Horton Smith & Robert Bremner  

Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research

YearWinnerDissertation / Notes
2025 Shuyi Deng
Indiana University		 “Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding: Bringing BIPOC Nonprofits into Focus”
2023 Samantha Zuhlke University of Iowa — “A Political Theory of Nonprofits: Partisanship, Policy, and the Rise of the Nonprofit Sector”
2022 Qun Wang Indiana University Bloomington — “Differentiated Government Control: Political Connections and Revenues to NGOs In China”
Honorable Mention: Viviana Chiu-Sik Wu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021 Peggy Sue Claire van Teunenbroek Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — Lots of people give me money: Towards a comprehensive understanding of social information effects on donation behavior
2020 Jiawei Sophia Fu Where Does Innovation Come From? Exploring the Dynamic Processes of Organizing and Managing Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2019 Cassandra Margot Chapman & Noah Jacobsen Isserman Toward a triadic understanding of charitable giving | Venturing into public good: From venture capital to the creation of state-supported venture philanthropy
2018 Erynn Beaton Managerialism, Mission, & Values: Micromechanisms of Nonprofit Institutionalization
2017 Claire Dunning Outsourcing Government: Boston and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships, 1949-present
2016 Tyrone M. Freeman Gospel of Giving: The Philanthropy of Madam CJ Walker (1867-1919)
2015 Sheila Cannon Surviving the Peace: Process of Organizational Identity Work in Response to Deinstitutionalisation of Irish Peacebuilding
2014 Catherine E. Herrold Bankrolling the Arab Spring: The Role of Philanthropy in Egypt’s Political Transition
Honorable Mention: Stijn Van Puyvelde — Applying Agency Theory to Nonprofit Governance
2013 Khaldoun AbouAssi Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: How Three Theories Explain NGO Responses to Shifting Funding Priorities
2012 Lewis Faulk Nonprofit and Foundation Behavior in Competitive Markets for Grants
2011 No Award Given
2010 Cristina Balboa When Non-governmental Organizations Govern: Accountability in Private Conservation Networks
2009 Julie Darnell Free Clinics: What are They, and Why Does the Number Vary Geographically
2008 Laurie Mook Social and Environmental Accounting: The Expanded Value Added Statement
2007 Chris Einolf The Roots of Altruistic Behavior: A Gender and Life Course Perspective
2006 Jiang Ru Environmental NGO’s in China: The Interplay of State Controls, Agency Interests and NGO Strategies
2005 Rene Bekkers Giving and Volunteering in The Netherlands: Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
2004 Angela Bies Nongovernmental Accountability in Poland: Mandatory versus Discretionary Self-Regulation
2003 Dara Z. Strolovitch Closer to a Pluralist Heaven? Women’s, Racial Minority, and Economic Justice Advocacy Groups and the Politics of Representation
2002 Patricia Dautel Nobbie Testing the Implementation, Board Performance and Organizational Effectiveness of the Policy Governance Model in Nonprofit Boards of Directors
2001 Eric Twombly Organizational Response in an Era of Welfare Reform: Exit and Entry Patterns of Human Service Providers
2000 Mark A. Hager Explaining Demise among Nonprofit Organizations
1999 Betty Jane Richmond A Social Audit Model to Measure the Impact of a Nonprofit Organization
Honorable Mention: Ira Silver
1998 Loretta Sullivan Lobes ‘Hearts All Aflame’: Women in the Development of New Forms of Social Service Organizations, 1870-1930
1997 Jessica Elfenbein To ‘Fit Them for Their Fight with the World’: The Baltimore YMCA and the Making of the Modern City, 1852-1932
1996 Femida Handy A Micro-foundational (Economic) Analysis of Nonprofit Organizations
1995 Gaynor Strickler VISTA: A Study in Organizational Survival
1994 Sheila Nelson & Kevin Barrett  

The Lester M. Salamon Memorial Award for Promising PhD Proposal in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research

YearWinnerProposal / Institution
2025 Jung Ho Choi
University of Pennsylvania		 “Essays on the Social Impact of Philanthropic Grant-Making”
2023 Jeannie Entenza Humphrey School of Public Affairs — “Third Sector Organizations in Iceland: Size, Scope, and Scale”

Outstanding Book Award in Nonprofit & Voluntary Action Research

YearAuthor(s)Title
2025 Gizem Zencirci
Providence College		 The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey
2022 Chao Guo & Gregory Saxton The Quest for Attention: Nonprofit Advocacy in a Social Media Age
2021 Thomas Davies The Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations
2020 Dennis Young Financing Nonprofits and Other Social Enterprises: A Benefits Approach
2019 Sarah S. Stroup & Wendy H. Wong The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs
2018 Jennifer Brass Allies or Adversaries: NGOs and the State in Africa
2017 Patricia Strach Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking
2016 Richard L. Wood & Brad R. Fulton A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
2015 Christopher Bail Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Become Mainstream
2014 Wendy Wong Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights (Cornell University Press)
2013 Wendy Wong Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights
Honorable Mention: Ashley Currier — Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa
2012 Kathleen M. Blee Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form (Oxford Press)
2011 Katherine Chen Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event
Honorable Mention: Rieko Kage — Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan
2010 Amy Singer Charity in Islamic Society (Cambridge University Press)
2009 Marc Musick & John Wilson | Howard Lune The Volunteers: A Social Profile | Urban Action Networks
2008 D. Michael Lindsay Faith in the Halls of Power (Oxford University Press)
2007 Kieran Healy Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs
Honorable Mention: Peter Frumkin — Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy
2006 Mark Chaves Congregations in America (Harvard University Press)
2005 Marion Fremont-Smith Governing Nonprofit Organizations (Harvard University Press)
2004 Alnoor Ebrahim NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting and Learning
2003 Mark E. Warren Democracy and Association (Princeton University Press)
2002 Eleanor Brilliant Private Charity and Public Inquiry (Indiana University Press)
2001 Joseph Galaskiewicz & Wolfgang Bielefeld Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty
2000 Margaret Harris Organizing God’s Work: Challenges for Churches and Synagogues
1999 Richard Magat | Jerome Himmelstein Unlikely Partners | Looking Good and Doing Good
1998 Kathryn Kish Sklar Florence Kelley and The Nation’s Work
1997 Daniel C. Levy Building the Third Sector: Latin America’s Private Research Centers and Nonprofit Development
1996 Lester Salamon | Francie Ostrower Partners in Public Service | Why the Wealthy Give
1995 Kirsten A. Gronbjerg Understanding Nonprofit Funding
1994 Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham | Kathleen D. McCarthy Righteous Discontent | Women’s Culture: American Philanthropy and Art

Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize

YearAuthor(s)Title / Institution
2025 Margaret Perez Brower
University of Washington		 Intersectional Advocacy: Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class
2023 Ian Murray University of Western Australia Law School — Charity Law and Accumulation: Maintaining an Intergenerational Balance
2022 Allison Schnable Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
2021 Catherine Herrold Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond
2020 Sabith Khan & Shariq Siddiqui Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions
2019 Christian Seelos & Johanna Mair Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do it
2018 Emily Barman Caring Capitalism: The Meaning and Measure of Social Value
2017 Chelsea Clinton & Devi Sridhar Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?
2016 Pamala Wiepking & Femida Handy Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy
2015 Monika Krause The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief of NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason
2014 Sarah Reckhow Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics
2013 Woods Bowman Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits with Website: Building Capacity and Sustainability
Honorable Mention: Warren, Mapp, et al. — A Match on Dry Grass
2012 Elisabeth S. Clemens & Doug Guthrie (Eds.) Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present
2011 Brenda Bushouse Universal Preschool: Policy, Change, Stability and the Pew Charitable Trusts
2010 Andrew J.F. Morris The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal through the Great Society
2009 Ram Cnaan & Carl Milofsky The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations
2008 Dara Strolovitch Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class and Gender in Interest Groups Politics
2007 Mary Ellen S. Capek & Molly Mead Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality
2006 Francie Ostrower Attitudes and Practices Concerning Effective Philanthropy
2005 Pippa Norris & Ronald Inglehart Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
2004 Marc Morje Howard | Marion Fremont-Smith The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe | Governing Nonprofit Organizations
2003 Gidron, Katz & Hasenfeld | Friedman & McGarvie Mobilizing for Peace | Charity, Philanthropy and Civility in American History
2002 Jennifer M. & Derick W. Brinkerhoff Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective (special issue, Public Administration and Development)
2001 Lester M. Salamon et al. | James E. Austin Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector | The Collaboration Challenge
2000 Richard A. Couto | Weisbrod & Okten Making Democracy Work Better | Determinants of Donations in Private Nonprofit Markets
1999 Galaskiewicz & Bielefeld | Kirsten Grønbjerg Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty | Mapping Small Religious Nonprofit Organizations
1998 Paul Schervish & John Havens Social Participation and Charitable Giving: A Multivariate Analysis

The Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize

YearAuthor(s)Title / Institution
2023 Claire Dunning University of Maryland — Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
2022 Shai M. Dromi Harvard University — Above the Fray: The Making of the Humanitarian Relief NGO Sector
2021 Elisabeth Clemens University of Chicago — Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
2020 David King Indiana University — God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism
2019 David Hollinger | Tore Olsson Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America | Agrarian Crossings
2018 Stephen Porter Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed
2017 Saniel R. Coquillette & Bruce Kimball On the Battlefield of Merit, the First Century
2016 Amanda Moniz From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism

RGK-ARNOVA President’s Award

YearWinnerPaper / Institution
2025 Brad Fulton
Indiana University		 “Philanthropic Redlining: Examining How Structural Racism Shapes Foundation Giving”
2023 Beth Gazley & Rachel Cash Indiana University Bloomington — “Is the Nonprofit Social Safety Net Prepared for Climate Change?”
2022 Jiahuan Lu Rutgers University-Newark — “Black Lives Matters, Stop Asian Hate, ...: Do Nonprofits Make A Difference?”
2021 Viviana Wu, Ji Ma & Chao Guo “The Matthew Effect in American Generosity?”
2020 Marlene Walk, Kerry Kuenzi & Amanda J. Stewart “Career Intentions, Commitment to the Nonprofit Sector, and COVID-19”
2019 Gary Adler, Damon Mayrl, Rebecca Sager & Jonathan Coley “The Contexts and Beliefs of Bureaucrats: Regulation of Local Church-State Relationships”
2018 Catherine Herrold “Resurrecting Civil Society?: Grassroots Organizations and Citizen Empowerment in Palestine”
2017 Susan Appe & Allison Schnable “Balancing the Professional with the Expressive: Organizational Learning and Grassroots International NGOs”
2016 Kelly LeRoux “Racial Diversity and Organizational Performance in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector”
2015 Reza Hasmath University of Alberta
2014 Jennifer Mosley  
2013 Brad Fulton “Bridging and Bonding: How Religious and Racial Diversity Influence Organizational Effectiveness”
2012 Beth Gazley “The Rise of School-Supporting Nonprofits”
2011 Melissa Stone “Toward Understanding Governance In Hybrid Organizations: The Case Of Minnesota’s Charter Schools”
2010 Eve Garrow “Competing Institutional Logics and the Dynamics of Institutionalization”

UMD Do Good Institute & ARNOVA Global Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Award

YearWinner(s)Paper / Institution
2025 Tamaki Onishi, Bok Gyo Jeong, Seongho An, Dana R.H. Doan & Dipendra K.C. “Contextualization Approach: Reframing Nonprofit and Philanthropy Research with Insights from Asia”
2023 Catherine Herrold Syracuse University Maxwell School — “Civil Society Thrives in the Kafana: Locally Led Development and Grassroots Civic Engagement in Serbia”
2022 Lindsey McDougle Rutgers Newark — “Strengthening Formal Philanthropy in Tanzania: A Pedagogic Approach”
2021 Reza Hasmath University of Alberta — “Volunteerism, Philanthropy and Civic Participation in China”
2020 Jennifer Jones University of Florida — “Cognitively Rising to the Challenge: Subtle yet Monumental Variations in Board Members’ Structure of Thought”
2019 Susan Appe Rockefeller College — “Diaspora philanthropy and how it shapes local U.S. communities”
2018 Dr. Khaldoun AbouAssi American University
2017 Pamala Wiepking Erasmus University Rotterdam
2016 Helmut K. Anheier Hertie School of Governance

Outstanding Article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ)

YearAuthor(s)Article
2025 Fu, Cooper, Woo & Kwestel “Beyond Stakeholder Management: Organizational Listening for Nonprofit Stakeholder Engagement”
2023 Coule, Dodge & Eikenberry “Toward a Typology of Critical Nonprofit Studies: A Literature Review” — NVSQ, 51(3), 478–506
2022 Brad R. Fulton “Bridging and bonding: Disentangling two mechanisms underlying the diversity–performance relationship” — NVSQ, 50(1), 54–76
2021 Svensson, Mahoney & Hambrick “What Does Innovation Mean to Nonprofit Practitioners?” — NVSQ, 49(2), 380–398
2020 Simsa, Rameder, Aghamanoukjan & Totter “Spontaneous volunteering in social crises: Self-organization and coordination” — NVSQ, 48(2), 103S–122S
2019 Ben-Ner, Hamann & Ren “Does Ownership Matter in the Selection of Service Providers?” — NVSQ, 47(6), 1271–1295
2018 Bourne & Lee | Mirae Kim “Managing Dual Identities in Nonprofit Rebranding” | “Nonprofits’ Financial Health to Program Outcomes”
2017 Vermeulen, Minkoff & van der Meer “The Local Embedding of Community Based Organizations” — NVSQ, 45(1), 23–44
2016 Lehn Benjamin & David Campbell “Nonprofit Performance: Accounting for the Agency of Clients” — NVSQ, 44(5), 988–1006
2015 Kelly LeRoux & Kelly Krawczyk “Can Nonprofit Organizations Increase Voter Turnout?” — NVSQ, 43(2), 272–292
2014 Gerhard Speckbacher “The Use of Incentives in Nonprofit Organizations” — NVSQ, 42(5), 1006–1025
2013 Périlleux, Hudon & Bloy “Surplus Distribution in Microfinance” — NVSQ, 41(3), 386–404
2012 Sarah Busse Spencer “Culture as Structure in Emerging Civic Organizations in Russia” — NVSQ, 40(6), 1073–1091
2011 Angela Bies “Evolution of Nonprofit Self-Regulation in Europe” — NVSQ, 39(6), 1057–1086
2010 Nuno Da Silva Themudo “Gender and the Nonprofit Sector” — NVSQ, 38(4), 663–683
2009 Lehn Benjamin “Account Space: How Accountability Requirements Shape Nonprofit Practice” — NVSQ, 37(2), 201–223
2008 Eleanor Brown & James M. Ferris “Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering” — NVSQ, 36(1)
2007 W. Richard Scott et al. “Advocacy Organizations and the Field of Youth Services” — NVSQ, 35(4), 691–714
2006 Weisinger & Salipante “A Grounded Theory for Building Ethnically Bridging Social Capital in Voluntary Organizations” — NVSQ, 34(1)
2005 Mary Alice Haddad “Community Determinates of Volunteer Participation and the Promotion of Civic Health: The Case of Japan”
Honorable Mention: Schlesinger, Mitchell & Gray — “Restoring Public Legitimacy to the Nonprofit Sector”
2004 Marc Hooghe “Participation in Voluntary Associations and Value Indicators” — NVSQ, 32(1), 47–69
2003 Wollebaek & Selle | Alnoor Ebrahim “Does Participation in Voluntary Associations Contribute to Social Capital?” | “Information Struggles”
2002 Mark Chaves & William Tsitsos “Congregations and Social Services” — NVSQ, 30(4), 660–683
2001 Grønbjerg, Martell & Paarlberg “Philanthropic Funding of Human Services” — NVSQ, 29(1), 9–40
2000 Alexander, Nank & Stivers “Implications of Welfare Reform: Do Nonprofit Survival Strategies Threaten Civil Society?”
1999 Nancy Wolff & Mark Schlessinger “Access, Hospital Ownership, and Competition between For-Profit and Nonprofit Institutions”
1998 Susan M. Chambre “Civil Society, Differential Resources, and Organizational Development: HIV/AIDS Organizations in New York City, 1982-1992”
1997 John Mohr & Francesca Guerra-Pearson “The Effect of State Intervention in the NonProfit Sector: The Case of the New Deal” — NVSQ, 25(4)
1996 Femida Handy “Reputation as Collateral: An Economic Analysis of the Role of Trustees in Nonprofits” — NVSQ, 24(4)
1995 Sheila Nelson “Catholic Elementary Schools in Chicago’s Black Inner City: Four Modes of Adaptations to Environmental Change”
1994 Javier Diaz-Albertini “Nonprofit Advocacy in Weakly Institutionalized Political Systems: The Case of NGDOs in Lima, Peru”

Best Reviewer for NVSQ Award

YearWinnerInstitution
2025 Erica Harris Florida International University
2023 Young-joo Lee University of Central Florida
2022 Debbie Haski-Leventhal & Weiai (Wayne) XU Macquarie Business School | University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021 Marcus Lam University of San Diego
2020 Dyana Mason University of Oregon
2019 Per G. Svensson Louisiana State University
2018 Christopher Einolf Northern Illinois University
2017 Marc Jegers Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2016 Ram Cnaan University of Pennsylvania
2015 Michael L. Shier University of Toronto
2014 Woods Bowman DePaul University
2013 Kyu-Nahm Jun Wayne State University
2012 Thad Calabrese New York University
2011 Mark Hager Arizona State University

Best Conference Paper Award

YearWinnerPaper
2025 Minji Hong
Georgia State University		 “Funding the Mission by Funding the Back Office: Causal Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program”
2023 Shuyi Deng University of Minnesota — “The Cost of Color? Race-conscious Mission Statements and Nonprofit Funding”
2022 Kelly LeRoux, Julie Langer & Samantha Plotner “Nonprofit Messaging and the 2020 Election: Findings from a Nonpartisan Get-Out-The-Vote Field experiment”
Honorable Mention: Jiahuan Lu, Bin Chen & Qiang Dong — “What Makes the Chinese Nonprofit Sector Grow?”
2021 Yuan Cheng & Jodi Sandfort “Administrative Reform to Overcome Institutional Racism: Exploring Government’s Trust Building Tactics to Renew Relationships with Community-based Organizations”
2020 Tyrone Freeman “More Hands than We Originally Thought: W.E.B. DuBois, the Atlanta Conferences, and the Overlooked Origins of the Serious Study of Philanthropy”
2019 Ottoni-Wilhelm, Smith & Scharf “Lift and shift: The effect of fundraising interventions in charity space and time”
2018 Wu, Xu & Guo “The Place Dilemma of Community Foundations: ‘Equalizing’ the Inequality?”
2017 Dale, Ackerman et al. “Giving to Women and Girls: An Unexamined Field of Philanthropy”
2016 Beth Gazley & Chao Guo “What do We Know about Nonprofit Collaboration: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of the Literature”
2015 Ming Hu & Jiangang Zhu “Community Reconstruction after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: Reflections on Participatory Development Theories”
2014 Chao Guo & Gregory D. Saxton “Speaking and Being Heard: How Advocacy Organizations Gain Attention in the Social Media World”
2013 Roseanne Mirabella “Towards a More Perfect Nonprofit: The Performance Mindset and the ‘Gift’”
2012 Paarlberg, Clerkin & Rodriguez “Place, Time and Philanthropy: Exploring Geographic Mobility and Philanthropic Engagement”

Best Poster Award

YearWinner(s)Poster
2023 Yokokura, Kim, Sullivan, Kwak & Nwakpuda “What are communities doing to address racial disparities in homelessness?”
2022 Sungeun Kim Oakland University — “The effects of nonprofit collaboration on equity in service delivery after COVID-19”
2021 Abraczinskas, Alexis et al. University of Florida — “Centralizing Black Students’ Voices: University and Community Crisis Responses to COVID-19 and the BLM Movement”
2020 Eugena Anderson “The intersection of black philanthropy and Sports Philanthropy”
2019 Jeong, Han, Winnicker & Coronel Kean University — “Does Social Media Marketing Enhance Online Users’ Positive Attitude and Behavior Towards Non-Profit Organizations”
2018 Seth Meyers & Rebecca Pena Rutgers University
2017 Daniela Schroete Western Michigan University
2014 Kathleen Gallagher & Matthew Ehlman Southern Methodist University | The Numad Group
2011 Bethmann, Studer & Von Schnurbein CEPS – Centre for Philanthropy Studies, University of Basel
2010 Isabella M. Nolte University of Hamburg

Editors’ Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Nonprofit Management & Leadership

YearAuthor(s)Article
2025 Young Min Baek, Jennifer Ihm & Chul Hee Kang
Yonsei University, Korea University, Yonsei University		 “Does mission concreteness make a difference in nonprofit performance? Automated text analysis approach to the importance of concrete mission statements” — NML, 34(2), 409–431

Distinguished Service to ARNOVA Award

YearWinner(s)Institution
2025 Elizabeth Searing & William A. Brown University of Texas at Dallas | Texas A&M University