Alan J. Abramson is director of the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, he oversees the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund and other research and leadership initiatives that focus on critical issues for nonprofits and philanthropy. He has served on many local and national nonprofit boards and advisory committees, and has been an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington universities. His research has focused on the impact of government budget cuts on nonprofits, the challenges facing nonprofit infrastructure organizations, and the operation of the federal budget process. He is currently the editor of the Aspen Philanthropy Letter.
Woods Bowman is an associate professor of public service management at DePaul University. An economist with 18 years of experience in state and local government finance, he has published numerous articles on nonprofit finance. Prior to coming to DePaul, Mr. Bowman has served as the chief financial officer of Cook County and was also a member of the House of Representatives in the Illinois General Assembly. In addition to his work at DePaul, Mr. Bowman also writes a column for the Nonprofit Quarterly on ethics.
Evelyn Brody is a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, having visited at Penn, Duke, and New York University. She teaches courses on tax and nonprofit law. Evelyn is the reporter of the American Law Institute's Project on Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. From 2003 to 2005, she served as secretary of the American Bar Association's Tax Section and has worked in the U.S. Treasury Department and in private practice. An associate scholar with The Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, she edited Property-Tax Exemption for Charities: Mapping the Battlefield (2002) and is writing the chapter on legal boundaries problems for the forthcoming volume Nonprofits and Business.
Joseph J. Cordes is professor of economics, public policy and public administration, and international affairs in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University, and serves as its director. An associate scholar in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, he is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy (Urban Institute Press) and Democracy, Social Values, and Public Policy (Greenwood Praeger). He has also published numerous articles and chapters in books on tax policy, the economics of nonprofit organizations, government regulation, and government spending.
Carol J. De Vita is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy in Washington, D.C., where she studies the role and financial capacity of nonprofit organizations. Her research focuses on the relationship between nonprofits and government and the availability of nonprofit services in local communities, especially in low-income neighborhoods. She also has examined the capacity of faith-based organizations and their ability to work with government. Dr. De Vita is the co-editor of Who Speaks for America's Children and Building Capacity in Nonprofit Organizations.
Marion R. Fremont-Smith is an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a principal of its Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. She is currently directing a research study on governance and accountability of nonprofit organizations. She has published numerous studies and papers on government regulation of nonprofit organizations. Her book, Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation, was published in 2004 by Harvard University Press. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1998, Mrs. Fremont-Smith was a partner in the Boston law firm Choate, Hall, and Stewart for 30 years, focusing on nonprofits.
John H. Goddeeris is professor of economics and associate dean of the College of Social Science at Michigan State University. His primary research interests are in the economics of health care and government finance. He has published numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Health Economics, JAMA, Economic Inquiry, and the National Tax Journal, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes.
Virginia A. Hodgkinson is an adjunct professor of public policy at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, where she founded and formerly directed the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership and the Center for Democracy and Civil Society. She is the author and editor of numerous articles and papers on the nonprofit sector, including The Nonprofit Almanac: Dimensions of the Independent Sector, 1996–1997. She has coauthored six volumes in the Jossey-Bass Publishers' Nonprofit Sector Series and served as associate editor of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly from 1985 to 1990.
Janelle Kerlin is an assistant professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where she conducts research on politics and policy related to nonprofit development and operation. Her present areas of interest include social enterprise and international nonprofit organizations. She is the author of several book chapters on social enterprise and international nonprofits and of the book, Social Service Reform in the Postcommunist State: Decentralization in Poland.
Elizabeth J. Reid has 20 years of experience in labor and community organizations, grassroots political education, leadership training, and involvement in civic and political affairs. At the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, she was an expert on nonprofit advocacy and on U.S. tax-exempt international organizations. She served as national political director for the American Federation of Government Employees and taught courses in society and politics at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C.
Lester M. Salamon is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. He previously served as director of the Center for Governance and Management Research at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and as deputy associate director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Author of more than a dozen books, Dr. Salamon's most recent publications include The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance and The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America.
Steven Rathgeb Smith is professor of public affairs at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He is also associate dean of the Evans School and director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropy. He is coauthor of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting and coeditor of Public Policy for Democracy. He was the editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), from 1998 to 2004. He is also the president-elect of ARNOVA. His recent publications examine government financing of nonprofit organizations, the role of faith-related service agencies in social welfare policy, and government–nonprofit relationships in the United States and abroad.
Eric C. Twombly is an assistant professor in the department of public administration and urban studies in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His current research focuses on social service provision by nonprofit organizations. He has also written widely on the determinants of charitable giving in metropolitan areas, the fiscal capacity of nonprofit organizations, and wage setting in the nonprofit sector.
Burton A. Weisbrod is John Evans Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, and is a faculty fellow of its Institute for Policy Research. He is the author of nearly 200 articles and author or editor of over a dozen books on such subjects as the interaction of insurance and technological change in medical care, benefit-cost analysis, and the economic behavior in mixed industries. His book, To Profit or Not to Profit (Cambridge University Press, 1998), focused attention on the causes and consequences of commercial activity by nonprofits in many industries. He is currently completing work on a book, Markets, Missions, and the Business of Higher Education, (coauthored with Jeffrey Ballou and Evelyn Asch), that examines the activities of various ownership forms of schools.
Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger 1952 Professor of Social Sciences and director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He has served as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and as president of the Eastern Sociological Society, and he is currently chair of the sociology department. He has written extensively about religion, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, volunteering, and civil society. His recent books include Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society (2004), America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (2005), and American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short (2006). He is currently conducting research about the role of U.S. religious organizations in global humanitarian and relief efforts.
Dennis R. Young is Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Professor of Private Enterprise and director of the nonprofit studies program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is also president of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise and founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership. His research interests include the management and economics of nonprofit organizations. His recent books include The Music of Management: Applying Organization Theory (2004), Wise Economic Decision-Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively (2006), and Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice (2006).
Nonprofits and Government, Second Edition, Edited by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 466 pages, ISBN 978-0-87766-732-2, $29.50).
