Working Papers

Usable Knowledge for Nonprofit Professionals and Scholars

The Center’s Working Papers Series includes work in progress on significant and emerging policy and management issues. Contributors include Baruch and CUNY faculty as well as major and emerging scholars from other institutions.

To subscribe to the series, please email nonprofit.wkpapers@baruch.cuny.edu.

For editorial questions, contact Professor Susan Chambré, Editor.

Government Contracting:

Accountability or Discretion? Challenges for Multi-service Nonprofit Agencies in Performance-Based Contracting in New York City: A Preliminary Report
Bin Chen, Baruch College, City University of New York
Jack Krauskopf, Baruch College, City University of New York
Examining the Relationship between Nonprofit Service Provision and Client Outcomes in a Performance-Based, Managed Care Contracting Environment
Bowen McBeath, Portland State University
William Meezan, The Ohio State University
International Perspectives on Strengthening Government-Nonprofit Relations: Are Compacts Applicable to the USA?
John Casey, Baruch College, City University of New York
Bronwen Dalton, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Rose Melville, University of Queensland, Australia
Jenny Onxy, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Nonprofit Governance:

Accountability in Voluntary Partnerships: To Whom and For What?
Muhittin Acar, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Chao Guo, University of Georgia
Kaifeng Yang, Florida State University
Transforming the Dynamics of Nonprofit Boards: From Passive to Active Agencies
Paul Firstenberg, Baruch College, City University of New York

Nonprofit Strategy:

Debt, Donors and the Decision to Give
Thad Calabrese, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
Cleopatra Grizzle, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
Static Strategy in a Dynamic Age: Nonprofit Web Missioning Throughout the 2000s
Sarah E. Ryan, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso
Stand by Me: Organization Founding in the Aftermath of Disaster
David Campbell, Binghamton University
Giving Up the Single Life: Leadership Motivations for Interorganizational Restructuring of Nonprofit Organizations
David Campbell, Binghamton University
Exploring Perceived Effectiveness of Nonprofit Lead-Organization Networks for Social Service Delivery
Bin Chen, Baruch College, City University of New York and Elizabeth A. Graddy, Ph.D, University of Southern California
The Limits and Potential of Nonprofit Organizations in Participatory Planning: A Case Study of the New York HIV Planning Council
John J. Chin, Hunter College, City University of New York
Bowling Together: Anatomy of a Successful Association Merger
Julie Pietroburgo, Southern Illinois University
Stephen P. Wernet, Saint Louis University

Community-Based Organizations:

Defending Neighborhoods with Multiple Publics: Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations
Tarry Hum, Queens College, City University of New York
Spontaneous or Constructed? Neighborhood Governance Reforms in Los Angeles and Shanghai
Bin Chen, The City University of New York at Baruch College
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Rong Sun, Shanghai Tongji University

Human Resources

Wage Dispersion in Nonprofit Organizations: Do Volunteers, Donations and Public Subsidies Have an Impact?
Astrid Haider and Ulrike Schneider, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Civic Engagement

The Influence of Major Life Events on Volunteering
Rebecca Nesbit, University of North Carolina—Charlotte
Respecting Difference without Privileging Visibility: Prospects for Volunteering and Civic Engagement by Aging Baby Boomers
Susan M. Chambré, Baruch College, City University of New York and
F. Ellen Netting, Virginia Commonwealth University
Is Volunteering Work, Prosocial Behavior, or Leisure? An Empirical Study
Susan M. Chambré, Baruch College, City University of New York and
Christopher J. Einolf, DePaul University, School for Public Service

Faith and Philanthropy

Religious Attitudes and Charitable Donations
Robert J. Eger, III, Florida State University
Bruce D. McDonald, III, Indiana University, South Bend
Volunteering and Civic Participation Among Immigrant Members of Ethnic Congregations:Complementary NOT Competitive
Jill Witmer Sinha, Rutgers University
Itay Greenspan, University of Pennsylvania
Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania

Advocacy

The Effects of Perceived Funding Trends on Nonprofit Advocacy: A National Survey of Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations
Robert Mark Silverman and Kelly L. Patterson, University at Buffalo

Editorial Board

Jack Krauskopf, Director, Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management, Baruch College, City University of New York, Editor
Susan M. Chambré, Baruch College, City University of New York, Editor
Rikki Abzug, Ramapo College
David Campbell, Binghamton University
John Casey, Baruch College, City University of New York
Bin Chen, Baruch College, City University of New York
Peter Dobkin Hall, Baruch College, City University of New York
Margaret Harris, Aston University (United Kingdom)
Roland Kushner, Muhlenberg College
Fred Lane, Baruch College, City University of New York
Nancy Macduff, Macduff-Bunt Associates
Nicole P. Marwell, Baruch College, City University of New York
Jill Mendelson, UJA Federation of Greater New York
F. Ellen Netting, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hillel Schmidt, Hebrew University (Israel)
Maude Simonet, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (France)

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