ARNOVA is proud to present the lifetime award:

Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award

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Roseanne M. Mirabella

Roseanne M. Mirabella, Ph.D. is member of the faculty of the College of Business and Public Management at Kean University.  She conducts research on philanthropy and nonprofit and nongovernmental education and critical perspectives on nonprofit organizing. She has authored or co-authored many papers on nonprofit and nongovernment organization education and one co-edited book “Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion and Social Change” exploring the ways in which nonprofit management education programs can prepare students both to lead organizations as well as for their important role as advocates for the communities they serve. She is co-editor of the recently published Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action one of the first major surveys of critical scholarship within the field. She is past President of ARNOVA and the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and is currently a member of the leadership team of the Critical Perspectives Section of ARNOVA.

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Presented by:

Emily Barman, Chair, President, Loyola University Chicago

Jennifer Madden, Carthage College

Jessica Word, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Michael Moody, Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy @ Grand Valley State University

ARNOVA is proud to present the following proposed research awards:

RGK-ARNOVA President's Award

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“A Decolonized Research Approach to Understanding Civil Society’s Fourth Era”

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Cristina M. Balboa, Elizabeth Bloodgood, Dipendra KC, Anna Domaradzka, Emmanuel Kumi, Patricia Maria Emerenciano Mendonca and Christopher L. Pallas

Cristina Balboa, Associate Professor at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. Her research examines the relationship between an organization’s internal characteristics (e.g. structure, diversity) and its external legitimacy and efficacy.

Dipendra KC, is an Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. His research focuses on evolution, and governance of NGOs in Nepal and Thailand. He serves as Secretary of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR).

Dr. Beth Bloodgood, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. She is interested in the emergence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their adaptation and response to national regulation.

Anna Domaradzka, Associate Professor and Director of the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw specializing in sociological and organizational approaches to CSOs and social movements, and local activism in the urban context.

Emmanuel Kumi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana. His research interests focus on civil society organisations, development finance, African philanthropy, and politics of development. He holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Bath, UK.

Patricia Maria Emerenciano Mendonca, Professor in the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo researches public policy, public administration, and CSOs.

Honorable Mentions: 

“Decision-making and Philanthropic Innovations: A Historical Inquiry” by Peter Weber, Auburn University

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“Relieving Administrative Burdens for Nonprofit Service Providers in the Governmental Grantmaking Process: A Research-Practice Partnership” by Chengxin Xu, Seattle University, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, University of Minnesota, Weston Merrick, Minnesota Management and Budget, Patrick Carter, Results for America and Kari Aanestad, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. 

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Presented by:

Beth Gazley, Chair, Indiana University

Alan Abramson, George Mason University

Richard Clerkin, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Lili Wang, Arizona State University

Kim Wiley, University of Florida

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

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“Structures, Strategies, and Networks of Anti-Torture International Nongovernmental Organizations”

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Christopher Einolf

Chris Einolf is a sociologist who studies volunteering, charitable giving, nonprofit organizations, and human rights. His first career was in immigration law, where he represented torture survivors in asylum proceedings. His current research focuses on how human rights organizations can most effectively prevent torture and help survivors.

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Presented by:

Catherine Herrold, Chair, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - Syracuse University

Georg von Schnurbein, University of Basel

Michal Almog Bar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Long Tran, The Ohio State University

ARNOVA presents the following book and paper awards:

Outstanding Book Award in Nonprofit & Voluntary Action Research

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“For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving”

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Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven Dean

Dana Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean. She teaches courses in Corporations, Nonprofit Law, Social Enterprise, Property, and Trusts and Estates. A globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity, her work on the law of social enterprises – firms that pursue profits for owners and social good – defined the field. She has also written extensively on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and on sustainable investing. Professor Brakman Reiser is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.

Dean is Professor of Law and Paul Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. He has spoken at the United Nations about global tax justice and testified in Congress about the impact of racism on taxation. His forthcoming book Global Jim Crow: Taxation and Racial Capitalism (Oxford) explains why we struggle to tax multinationals. His previous publications include For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving (Oxford 2023) and Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit and Capital Markets (Oxford 2017). He served as the Faculty Director of the NYU Law Graduate Tax Program and practiced tax with leading global law firms. He earned his law degree from Yale. 

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Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize

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“Social Economy Science: Transforming the economy and making society more resilient”

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Gorgi Krlev, Dominika Wruk, Giulio Pasi and Marika Bernhard

Gorgi Krlev is Associate Professor of Sustainability at ESCP Business School in Paris. He also holds a visiting professorship at Politecnico di Milano and is a visiting fellow at University of Oxford’s Kellogg College. His research deals with social entrepreneurship, social innovations, and impact. He has won numerous awards, including a best book award from the Academy of Management (AOM), the Roman Herzog Institute’s first prize for research that matters to society, a Financial Times award for responsible business education, and a Poets&Quants award as 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professor.

Dominika Wruk is Assistant Professor for Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the University of Mannheim. She has been leading the platforms2share research group, focused on platform cooperatives and funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. She also led the i-share project consortium, in which she was responsible for analyzing the social, ecological, and economic effects of the sharing economy. She has been a SCANCOR visiting researcher at Stanford University.

Giulio Pasi is Member of the Advisory Board of the Bureau of Entrepreneurial Finance at the University of Turin and Professor of Economics at Universidad Loyola in Seville. He is a Policy Officer for Social and Sustainable Investments at the European Commission, leading work on social innovation, new financial engineering, the relationships between public policy and new markets, as well as the impact of the digital transformation. An expert in policy analysis, strategic foresight, and future studies, he is the author of around sixty publications and is a globally recognized expert in the field of impact investing.

Marika Bernhard is Lead of Sustainability at DFL (the German Football Association). She is also founder and chairwoman of Social Entrepreneurship Baden-Württemberg (now Impact BW), a network organization supporting impact-driven ventures across Germany. She initiated the Social Innovation Summit, which, after many years of running successfully as an entrepreneurial endeavour, merged existing efforts and partnerships, including with the European Commission, to become the Social Economy Science Conference.

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Presented by:

Claire Dunning, Co-Chair, University of Maryland

Ian Murray, Co-chair, The University of Western Australia

Howard Lune, Hunter College, Department of Sociology

Tamaki Onishi, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Giedre Lideikyte-Huber, University of St Gallen

Gregory Saxton, York University

Sabith Khan, Virginia Tech

Cindy Lott, Indiana University

Best 2023 Conference Paper Award

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“City Formations under New Racial Formations: Ethnic Civil Society Networks in the Creation of Portland and Seattle, 1888-1909”

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Simon Shachter

Simon Yamawaki Shachter is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. His research analyzes how the interrelationships between civil society and the state perpetuate and/or alleviate inequality. He takes organizational- and race-based perspectives to understand how people, historically and today, seek to influence policy and politics. He is currently undertaking a research project on the interpenetration of immigrant organizations and urban politics during the 19th-century development of the U.S.’s West Coast. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University.

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Presented by:

Yuan Cheng, Chair, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Mark Hager, Arizona State University

Jeongyoon Lee, University of Kentucky

Meng-Han Ho, National Central University, Taiwan

Shuyi Deng, Indiana University

ARNOVA presents the following awards for research:

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

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“The Roles, Impacts, and Institutional Characteristics of Grantmaking Foundations Supporting Women’s Causes in the U.S.”

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Hyunrang Han

Dr. Han received her Ph.D. degree in Community Resources and Development with a specialization in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University in 2022. After graduation, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research agenda bridges nonprofit management from a diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) perspective, partnership across sectors, and philanthropy and social inequality.

Honorable mentions: 

"Perceived Price of Giving’s Relationship with Charitable Giving and Its Association with Reputational Effectiveness and Trustworthiness" by Dr. Minjung Kim, Syracuse University.

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"The Financial Benefits of Information Technology Adoption in Nonprofit Organizations" by Dr. Hanjin Mao, University of Houston

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Presented by:

Bok Gyo Jeong, Kean University

Roseanne Mirabella, Seton Hall University

Wanzhu Shi, University of North Florida

Jiwon Suh, University of Texas at Arlington

Seth Meyer, Bridgewater State University

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

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“Cross-Sector Dynamics of Administrative Burden: Legal, Social, and Educational Nonprofit Support in Transgender Health”

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Shaun Khurana

Shaun Khurana is a PhD Candidate in Public Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His research agenda focuses on questions of ethical and fair interactions within and at the citizen-bureaucrat boundaries of public and nonprofit organizations, often in application to issues impacting vulnerable populations. He aims to produce theoretical contributions to modern lines of management research in administrative burden, performance management, and voice in organizations. His dissertation studies the effect of nonprofit assistance on administrative burdens experienced by the transgender community.

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Presented by:

Nathaniel Wright, Rutgers University-Camden

Vernise Estorcien, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Teshanee Williams, Robert W. Bradshaw Jr. Distinguished Term

B. Kathleen Gallagher, Texas Tech University

Outstanding Article in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ)

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“No Strings Attached: Philanthropy, Race, and Donor Control from Black Power to Black Lives Matter”

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 52(1), 29-49.

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Claire Dunning

Claire Dunning is a historian of the United States in the 20th century and Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research and teaching focus on the histories of inequality, democracy, and nonprofit organizations in American cities. She is the author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Her work has also been published in several academic journals and popular outlets, including the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Washington Post. Dunning holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and previously worked at a community foundation

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Presented by:

Joanne Carman, NVSQ Editor-in-chief, UNC Charlotte

Jaclyn Piatak, NVSQ Editor-in-chief, UNC Charlotte

Tracey Coule, Chair, Sheffield Hallam University

Brenda Bushouse, University of Massachusetts Amherst

René Bekkers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Young-joo Lee, University of Central Florida

Angela Eikenberry, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Marcus Lam, University of San Diego

Sophia Fu, Rutgers University

Best Reviewer for Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ)

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Erynn Beaton

Dr. Erynn Beaton is an Associate Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. She studies the ways in which the nonprofit sector and its organizations combat, reflect, and sometimes reproduce structural inequalities. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Boston in the business school’s program on Organizations & Social Change. She was also privileged to receive an M.B.A from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Presented by:

Joanne Carman, UNC Charlotte

Jaclyn Piatak, UNC Charlotte

Editors’ Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Volume 33

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“Tubs, Tanks, and Towers: Donor Strategies for Donor-Advised Funds Giving”

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 33(4), 687-709.

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H. Daniel Heist, Benjamin F. Cummings, Megan M. Farwell, Ram Cnaan and Erinn Andrews

Dr. H. Daniel Heist is an Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management and Social Impact at the George W. Romney Institute for Public Service and Ethics at Brigham Young University. He researches philanthropy, charitable giving and volunteering. His 9 years of professional fundraising experience inform his research. Dr. Heist is a leading expert on donor-advised fund research and co-founder of the Donor-Advised Fund Research Collaborative.

Megan M. Farwell is currently a researcher on Meta's Central Social Impact team, serving as a subject matter expert advising on fundraising product investments and strategy. Prior to joining Meta, she was a researcher at Stanford's Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative, and, before that, a doctoral student at University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice.

Dr. Ram A. Cnaan is a Professor and Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice. He is the faculty founder of the Goldring Reentry Initiative which works to reduce recidivism. He is also a Global Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University Graduate Institute of Peace, South Korea. Professor Cnaan served as president of ARNOVA (Association for Research on nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary action). He is the originator of the first practice doctorate degree in social work (DSW).

Erinn Andrews, the current VP and incoming President of the National Board of Advisors in Philanthropy and serial social entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of GiveTeam. With an extensive background in philanthropic research and education at Stanford University and nonprofit strategy at GuideStar, Erinn has created a unique consultancy that collaborates closely with financial advisors to help clients be more intentional in their giving.

Best Poster Award

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“The Amish in the era of digital government: is there a role for nonprofits?”

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Chanyoung (Chris) Han

Chanyoung (Chris) Han, is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include finding ways to help digitally marginalized people, especially voluntarily digitally marginalized people, in the era of digital government and the roles of nonprofit organizations in helping them.