Past Winners
Each year during the Annual ARNOVA Conference, 12 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.
2023 - Richard Steinberg | Read Remarks
2022 - Alan Abramson | Read Remarks
2021 - Judith Saidel | Read Remarks & Jack Quarter - Posthumously | Watch tribute
2020 - Melissa Stone | Read Remarks
2019 - Susan Ostrander | Read Remarks & Dwight Burlingame | Read Remarks
2018 - Evelyn Brody | Read Remarks
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
2023 - Samantha Zuhlke, University of Iowa, “A Political Theory of Nonprofits: Partisanship, Policy, and the Rise of the Nonprofit Sector”
2022 - Qun Wang, Center for Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, “Differentiated Government Control: Political Connections and Revenues to NGOs In China” ❘ Honorable mention: "The Promises And Challenges of Community Philanthropy: Place Dilemma, Community Leadership, and Public Engagement on Social Media", Viviana Chiu-Sik Wu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021 - Peggy Sue Claire van Teunenbroek, Center for Philanthropic Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lots of people give me money: Towards a comprehensive understanding of social information effects on donation behavior ❘ Watch Acceptance video
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, Toward a triadic understanding of charitable giving: How donors, beneficiaries, fundraisers, and social contexts influence donation decisions | Noah Jacobsen Isserman, Venturing into public good: From venture capital to the creation of state-supported venture philanthropy and its implications for third sector financing
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: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions.
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, Preventing Fires While Feeling the Heat: Philanthropists and Community Organizations Collaborating to Address Urban Poverty.
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
2023 - Jeannie Entenza, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, “Third Sector Organizations in Iceland: Size, Scope, and Scale”
2022 - Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania and Gregory Saxton, Schulich School of Business, "The Quest for Attention Nonprofit Advocacy in a Social Media Age"
2021 - Thomas Davies, University of London, "The Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations"
2020 - Dennis Young, Georgia State University - Nonprofit Policy Forum (NPF), "Financing Nonprofits and Other Social Enterprises: A Benefits Approach"
2019 - Sarah S. Stroup, Middlebury College and Wendy H. Wong, University of Toronto, "The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs"
2018 - Jennifer Brass, Indiana University, "Allies or Adversaries: NGOs and the State in Africa"
2017 -Patricia Strach, University at Albany, State University of New York, "Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking"
2016 - Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico, and Brad R. Fulton, Indiana University, "A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy"
2015 - Christopher Bail, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, "Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Become Mainstream"
2014 - Wendy Wong, "Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGO's Transforms Human Rights" (Cornell University Press)
2013 - Wendy Wong, "Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGO's Transforms Human Rights" (Cornell University Press) | Honorable Mention: Ashley Currier, "Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa"(University of Minnesota Press)
2012 - Kathleen M. Blee, 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" (University of Chicago Press) | Honorable Mention: Rieko Kage, "Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan" (Cambridge University Press)
2010 - Amy Singer, "Charity in Islamic Society" (Cambridge University Press)
2009 - Marc Musick & John Wilson, "The Volunteers: A Social Profile" (Indiana University Press) | AND | Howard Lune, "Urban Action Networks" (Roman and Littlefield)
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" (University of Chicago Press) | Honorable Mention: Peter Frumkin, "Strategic Giving: The Art of Science of Philanthropy" (University of Chicago Press)
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" (Cambridge University Press)
2003 - Mark E. Warren, "Democracy and Association" (Princeton University Press)
2002 - Eleanor Brilliant, "Private Charity and Public Inquiry" (Indiana University Press)
2001 - Joseph Galaskiewicz and Wolfgang Bielefeld, "Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty" (Aldine)
2000 - Margaret Harris, "Organizing God’s Work: Challenges for Churches and Synagogues" (Macmillan)
1999 - Richard Magat, "Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement" (ILR Press/Cornell University Press) | AND | Jerome Himmelstein, "Looking Good and Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power" (Indiana University Press)
1998 - Kathryn Kish Sklar, "Florence Kelley and The Nation’s Work" (Yale University Press)
1997 - Daniel C. Levy, "Building the Third Sector: Latin America’s Private Research Centers and Nonprofit Development" (University of Pittsburgh Press)
1996 - Lester Salamon, "Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State" (Johns Hopkins University Press) | AND | Francie Ostrower, "Why the Wealthy Give" (Princeton University Press)
1995 - Kirsten A. Gronbjerg, "Understanding Nonprofit Funding" (Jossey-Bass)
1994 - Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham, "Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church" (Harvard University Press) | AND | Kathleen D. McCarthy, "Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art,1830-1930"
2023 - Ian Murray, University of Western Australia Law School, “Charity Law and Accumulation: Maintaining an Intergenerational Balance”
2022 - Allison Schnable, Paul H. O’Neill
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, "Amateurs without Borders The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion"
2021 - Catherine Herrold, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, "Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond"┃Watch Acceptance Video
2020 - Sabith Khan, California Lutheran University and Shariq Siddiqui, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, "Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions"
2019 - Christian Seelos, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Johanna Mair, Hertie School of Governance, "Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do it"
2018 - Emily Barman, Boston University, "Caring Capitalism: The Meaning and Measure of Social Value"
2017 - Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation and Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh, "Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?"
2016 - Pamala Wiepking, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania, "Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy"
2015 - Monika Krause, University of Longon, "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" (Oxford University Press)
2013 - Woods Bowman, "Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits with Website: Building Capacity and Sustainability", (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) | Honorable Mention: Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, and the Community Organizing and School Reform Project, "A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform" (Oxford University Press)
2012 - Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie (Eds.). "Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present" (The University of ChicagoPress, 2010)
2011 - Brenda Bushouse, "Universal Preschool: Policy, Change, Stability and the Pew Charitable Trusts", State University of New York Press.
2010 - Andrew J.F. Morris, "The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal through the Great Society" (Cambridge University Press)
2009 - Ram Cnaan & Carl Milofsky, "The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations" (Springer)
2008 - Dara Strolovitch, "Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class and Gender in Interest Groups Politics" (University of Chicago Press)
2007 - Mary Ellen S. Capek and Molly Mead, "Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality" (MIT, 2006) | Honorable Mention: Samantha King, Pink Ribbons, "Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy" (University of Minnesota, 2006)
2006 - Francie Ostrower, "Attitudes and Practices Concerning Effective Philanthropy"
2005 - Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, "Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide" | Honorable Mentions: Richard Chait, Bill Ryan, and Barbara Taylor, "Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards" -and- Steven Dubb and Gar Alperovitz, "The Democracy Collaborative, Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems"
2004 - Marc Morje Howard, "The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe" | AND | Marion Fremont-Smith, "Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation"
2003 - Benjamin Gidron, Stanley Katz, and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, editors, "Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa" | AND | Lawrence Friedman and Mark McGarvie, editors, "Charity, Philanthropy and Civility in American History"
2002 -Guest editors Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff and Derick W. Brinkerhoff, “Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective” a special issue of the journal Public Administration and Development. Other contributors to the issue are Lori Brainard, Juliet Musso, Arthur Goldsmith, Denis Bouget, and Philip Warin. | AND | Guest editors Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff and Derick W. Brinkerhoff, “Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective” a special issue of the journal Public Administration and Development. Other contributors to the issue are Lori Brainard, Juliet Musso, Arthur Goldsmith, Denis Bouget, and Philip Warin.
2001 - Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List, Stefan Toepler, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Associates, Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, “Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector” | AND | James E. Austin, Initiative on Social Enterprise, Harvard Business School, “The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed Through Strategic Alliances”
2000 - Richard A. Couto, University of Richmond, "Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and Democratic Prospect" | AND | Burton A. Weisbrod and Cagla Okten, Northwestern University, "Determinants of Donations in Private Nonprofit Markets"
1999 - Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Minnesota, and Wolfgang Bielefeld, Indiana University, "Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty: A Study of Organizational Change" | AND | Kirsten Grønbjerg, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, "Mapping Small Religious Nonprofit Organizations: An Illinois Profile"
1998 - Paul Schervish and John Havens, Boston College, "Social Participation and Charitable Giving: A Multivariate Analysis"
2023 - Claire Dunning, University of Maryland - College Park, “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, The University of Chicago, “Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State”┃Watch Acceptance Video
2020 - David King, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy,“God's Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism”
2019 - David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, "Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America" | Tore Olsson, University of Tennessee, "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside"
2018 - Stephen Porter, University of Cincinnati, "Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed"
2017 - Saniel R. Coquillette, Boston College & Bruce Kimball, The Ohio State University, “On the Battlefield of Merit, the First Century”
2016 - Amanda Moniz, National History Center, “From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism”
2023 - Beth Gazley, Indiana University Bloomington, Rachel Cash, Indiana University Bloomington, “Is the Nonprofit Social Safety Net Prepared for Climate Change?”
2022 - Jiahuan Lu, Rutgers University-Newark, "Black Live Matters, Stop Asian Hate, ...: Do Nonprofits Make A Difference?"
2021 - Viviana Wu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ji Ma, The University of Texas at Austin, and Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania, "The Matthew Effect in American Generosity? Examining Inequality in Philanthropic Capacity Across Place and Time"┃Watch Acceptance Video
2020 - Marlene Walk, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs IUPUI, Kerry Kuenzi, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, and Amanda J. Stewart, North Carolina State University, "Career Intentions, Commitment to the Nonprofit Sector, and COVID-19: Insights from Nonprofit Graduate Alumni"
2019 - Gary Adler, Penn State, Damon Mayrl, Colby College, Rebecca Sager, Loyola Marymount University and Jonathan Coley, Oklahoma State University, "The Contexts and Beliefs of Bureaucrats: Regulation of Local Church-State Relationships in a New Era"
2018 - Catherine Herrold, Lilly Family School at IUPUI, "Resurrecting Civil Society?: Grassroots Organizations and Citizen Empowerment in Palestine"
2017 - Susan Appe, Binghamton University, SUNY and Allison Schnable, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, “Balancing the Professional with the Expressive: Organizational Learning and Grassroots International NGOs”
2016 - Kelly LeRoux, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Racial Diversity and Organizational Performance in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector"
2015 - Reza Hasmath, University of Alberta
2014 - Jennifer Mosley
2013 - Brad Fulton, Department of Sociology at Duke University, “Bridging and Bonding: How Religious and Racial Diversity Influence Organizational Effectiveness”
2012 - Beth Gazley, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Bloomington, "The Rise of School-Supporting Nonprofits"
2011 - Melissa Stone, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,"Toward Understanding Governance In Hybrid Organizations: The Case Of Minnesota’s Charter Schools"
2010 - Eve Garrow, University of California, Los Angeles, "Competing Institutional Logics and the Dynamics of Institutionalization: A Comparative Case Study of Nonprofit Work Integration Social Enterprises"
2023 - Catherine Herrold, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, “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"┃Watch Acceptance Video
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 of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY, "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
2023 - Tracey M. Coule, Sheffield Hallam University, Jennifer Dodge, University at Albany–SUNY and Angela M. Eikenberry, University of Nebraska at Omaha, “Toward a Typology of Critical Nonprofit Studies: A Literature Review” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 51(3), 478–506.
2022 - Brad R. Fulton, O’Neill School at Indiana University, "Bridging and bonding: Disentangling two mechanisms underlying the diversity–performance relationship" - NVSQ Vol 50(1), 54-76
2021 - Per G. Svensson, Louisiana State University, Tara Q. Mahoney, SUNY Cortland, and Marion E. Hambrick, University of Louisville, "What Does Innovation Mean to Nonprofit Practitioners? International Insights From Development and Peace-Building Nonprofits" ❘ Watch Acceptance Video
2020 - Ruth Simsa, University of Economics and Business-Vienna, Paul Rameder, WU Vienna, Anahid Aghamanoukjan, Distance Learning University of Applied Sciences Vienna and Marion Totter, University of Economics and Business-Vienna, "Spontaneous volunteering in social crises: Self-organization and coordination"
2019 - Avner Ben-Ner, University of Minnesota, Darla J. Hamann, St. Cloud State University and Ting Ren, Peking University HSBC Business School, "Does Ownership Matter in the Selection of Service Providers? Evidence From Nursing Home Consumer Surveys"
2018 - Humphrey Bourne, University of Bristol, UK, and Zoe Lee: University of Bath, UK, Managing Dual Identities in Nonprofit Rebranding: An Exploratory Study | AND | Mirae Kim, Georgia State University, "The Relationship of Nonprofits' Financial Health to Program Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from Nonprofit Arts Organizations"
2017 - Floris Vermeulen, Debra Minkoff and Tom van der Meer, "The Local Embedding of Community Based Organizations" - NVSQ Vol. 45, No. 1
2016 - Lehn Benjamin, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and David Campbell, University of California Davis, "Nonprofit Performance: Accounting for the Agency of Clients" - NVSQ, 44(5)
2015 - Kelly LeRoux, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Kelly Krawczyk, Auburn University, "Can Nonprofit Organizations Increase Voter Turnout? Finds From an Agency-Based Voter Mobilization Experiment"
2014 - Gerhard Speckbacher, "The Use of Incentives in Nonprofit Organizations"
2013 - Anaïs Périlleux, Marek Hudon, and Eddy Bloy, "Surplus Distribution in Microfinance: Differences Among Cooperative, Nonprofit, and Shareholder Forms of Ownership" (Vol. 41, Issue 3)
2012 - Sarah Busse Spencer, "Culture as Structure in Emerging Civic Organizations in Russia"
2011 - Angela Bies, "Evolution of Nonprofit Self-Regulation in Europe"
2010 - Nuno Da Silva Themudo, "Gender and the Nonprofit Sector"
2009 - Lehn Benjamin, "Account Space: How Accountability Requirements Shape Nonprofit Practice"
2007 - W. Richard Scott, Sarah Deschenes, Kathryn Hopkins, Anne Newman and Milbrey McLaughlin, "Advocacy Organizations and the Field of Youth Services: Ongoing Efforts to Restructure a Field"
2006 - Judith Y. Weisinger and Paul F. Salipante, "A Grounded Theory for Building Ethnically Bridging Social Capital in Voluntary Organizations"
2005 - Mary Alice Haddad, "Community Determinates of Volunteer Participation and the Promotion of Civic Health: The Case of Japan" | Honorable Mention: Mark Schlesinger, Shannon Mitchell and Bradford H. Gray, "Restoring Public Legitimacy to the Nonprofit Sector: A Survey Experiment Using Descriptions of Nonprofit Ownership"
2004 - Marc Hooghe, "Participation in Voluntary Associations and Value Indicators: The Effect of Current and Previous Participation Experiences"
2003 - Dag Wollebaek and Per Selle, "Does Participation in Voluntary Associations Contribute to Social Capital? The Impact of Intensity, Scope, and Type" | AND | Alnoor Ebrahim, "Information Struggles: The Role of Information in the Reproduction of NGO-Funder Relationships"
2002 - Mark Chaves and William Tsitsos, "Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom"
2001 - Mark Chaves and William Tsitsos, "Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom"
2000 - Mark Chaves and William Tsitsos, "Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom"
1999 - Mark Chaves and William Tsitsos, "Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom" | Honorable Mention: Janet S. Greenlee and Theresa P. Gordon, "The Impact of Professional Solicitors on Fund-Raising in Charitable Organizations"
1998 - Susan M. Chambre, "Civil Society, Differential Resources, and Organizational Development: HIV/AIDS Organizations"
1997 - Susan M. Chambre, "Civil Society, Differential Resources, and Organizational Development: HIV/AIDS Organizations"
1996 - Susan M. Chambre, "Civil Society, Differential Resources, and Organizational Development: HIV/AIDS Organizations"
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: NGDO’s in Lima Peru"
2023 - Young-joo Lee, University of Central Florida
2022 - Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Macquarie Business School AND Weiai (Wayne) XU, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021 - Marcus Lam, University of San Diego ❘ Watch Acceptance Video
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
2023 - Shuyi Deng, University of Minnesota, “The Cost of Color? Race-conscious Mission Statements and Nonprofit Funding”
2022 - Kelly LeRoux, University of Illinois Chicago, Julie Langer, Northern Illinois University, and Samantha Plotner, University of Illinois Chicago, "Nonprofit Messaging and the 2020 Election: Findings from a Nonpartisan Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Field experiment" | Honorable mention: "What Makes the Chinese Nonprofit Sector Grow? A Cross-Province Configurational Analysis", Jiahuan Lu, Rutgers University - Newark, Bin Chen, Baruch College CUNY, Qiang Dong, China Agricultural University
2021 - Yuan Cheng, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Jodi Sandfort, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington Seattle, "Administrative Reform to Overcome Institutional Racism: Exploring Government’s Trust Building Tactics to Renew Relationships with Community-based Organizations"
2020 - Tyrone Freeman, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, "More Hands than We Originally Thought: W.E.B. DuBois, the Atlanta Conferences, and the Overlooked "Origins of the Serious Study of Philanthropy."
2019 - Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Indiana University - Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Sarah Smith, University of Bristol, Kimberley Scharf, University of Birmingham, "Lift and shift: The effect of fundraising interventions in charity space and time"
2018 - Chiu-Sik (Viviana) Wu, University of Pennsylvania, Weiai Xu, University of Massachusetts, Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania, “The Place Dilemma of Community Foundations: ‘Equalizing’ the Inequality?”
2017 - Elizabeth Dale, Seattle University, Jacqueline Ackerman, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Debra J. Mesch, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Una Okonkwo Osili, Indiana University, Silvia Garcia, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, “Giving to Women and Girls: An Unexamined Field of Philanthropy”
2016 - Beth Gazley, Indiana University, Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania, "What do We Know about Nonprofit Collaboration A Comprehensive Systematic Review of the Literature"
2015 - Ming Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jiangang Zhu, Sun Yat-Sen University, "Community Reconstruction after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: Reflections on Participatory Development Theories"
2014 -Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania, Gregory D. Saxton, University at Buffalo, SUNY, "Speaking and Being Heard: How Advocacy Organizations Gain Attention in the Social Media World"
2013 - Roseanne Mirabella, Seton Hall University, “Towards a More Perfect Nonprofit: The Performance Mindset and the ‘Gift’”
2012 - Laurie Paarlberg, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Richard Clerkin, North Carolina State University, Darlene Rodriguez, Salem College, “Place, Time and Philanthropy: Exploring Geographic Mobility and Philanthropic Engagement”
2023 - Kotomi Yokokura, University of Kentucky, Saerim Kim, Suffolk University, Boston, Dr. Andrew Sullivan, University of Central Florida, Hyokyung Kwak, College of Charleston and Emily Nwakpuda, University of Texas at Arlington, “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 - Dr. Michelle Abraczinskas, Gabriella Alexis, Dr. Jenee’ Duncan, Zoe Flowers, Chandler LeBlanc, Alina McCloud, and Dr. Kimberly Wiley, 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”
Runner ups:
Misun Lee’s, “We produce public goods: Classifying social enterprises through public goods theory”
Jonathan Oxley’s “Does additional mandatory reporting alter charity or donor behavior? Examining the 2006 pension protection act”
2019 - Bok Jeong, Min-Chung Han, Megan Winnicker and Jessie Coronel, Kean University, "Does Social Media Marketing Enhance Online Users’ Positive Attitude and Behavior Towards Non-Profit Organizations"
2018 - Seth Meyersand and Rebecca Pena, Rutgers University
2017 -Daniela Schroete, Western Michigan University
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2014 - Kathleen Gallagher, Southern Methodist University and Matthew Ehlman, The Numad Group
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2011 - Steffen Bethmann, Sibylle Studer and Georg Von Schnurbein, CEPS - Centre for Philanthropy Studies University of Basel
2010 - Isabella M. Nolte, University of Hamburg