Staff Research

Center researchers, Alan Abramson, Mirae Kim, and Stefan Toepler have recently published work on a range of nonprofit topics. Their current interests include the state of the regional, national, and international nonprofit sectors; nonprofit-government relations; the role of foundations and philanthropy in our society; nonprofit accountability, governance, and effectiveness; global civil society; and social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.

Below, you will find information and links to their most recent work:

Alan Abramson

Click here for a list of Alan Abramson’s recently published work.

Mirae Kim

Click here for a list of Mirae Kim’s recently published work.

Stefan Toepler

Click here for a list of Stefan Toepler’s recently published work.

Alan Abramson

Assessing the State of the US Nonprofit Sector: What Indicators Should We Use?

A. Abramson

May 2022

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

“New legal forms for hybrid organizations.”

A. Abramson and KC. Billings

2020

The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management.

Challenges Facing Social Enterprises in the United States

A. Abramson and KC. Billings

May 2019

Nonprofit Policy Forum

Review: The Third Sector: Community Organizations, NGOs, and Nonprofits by Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Terry Nichols Clark

A. Abramson

August 2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Assessing the Vitality of the US Nonprofit Sector: Toward a Nonprofit Health Index

A. Abramson, AL. Grayson, and JG. Moore

November 2018

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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Mirae Kim

Benefit-based revenue streams and financial health: The case of arts and cultural nonprofits

Q. Liu and M. Kim

May 2021

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Research note: Bridging the gaps between the theory and practice of nonprofit operating reserves

M. Kim and D.P. Mason

May 13, 2021

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and Funding

C. Rosenstein, M. Kim, and N. Vakharia

September 2021

The California Alliance for Traditional Arts

The Prevalence of Ethnic, Cultural, and Folk Nonprofit Organizations in Increasingly Diverse Communities: A Case of Demand Heterogeneity

M. Kim, S. Potochnick, and K. Olson

April 28, 2021

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Steven Rathgeb Smith: The Changing Dynamic of Government–Nonprofit Relationships: Advancing the Field (s)

M. Kim, A. Prakash, MM. Stone, RH. Williams, and S. Toepler

November 2021

Nonprofit Policy Forum

Exploring nonprofit dilemmas through a new lens: Introduction to the symposium on experimental and behavioral approaches in nonprofit and voluntary sector research

M. Kim, K. LeRoux, D. Mason

October 2021

Journal of Behavioral Public Administration

Nonprofit Trends and Impacts 2021: National Findings on Diversity and Representation, Donation Trends from 2015-2020, and Effects of 2020

L. Faulk, M. Kim, T. Derrick-Mills, ET. Boris, L. Tomasko, N. Hakizimana, T. Chen, M. Kim, L. Nath

October 7, 2021

Urban Institute

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Stefan Toepler

Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy

HK. Anheier and S. Toepler

August 2022

 

Contested Civic Spaces in Liberal Democracies

RG. Strachwitz and S. Toepler

August 2022

Nonprofit Policy Forum

Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Theorizing the Third Sector: Embedding Statistical and Methodological Developments Awaiting Broader Scholarly Take-up

LM. Salamon, MA. Haddock, and S. Toepler

February 2022

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts

M. Hoelscher, RA. List, A. Ruser, and S. Toepler

2022

Chapters:

Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Steven Rathgeb Smith: The Changing Dynamic of Government–Nonprofit Relationships: Advancing the Field (s)

M. Kim, A. Prakash, MM. Stone, RH. Williams, and S. Toepler

November 2021

Nonprofit Policy Forum

Regulatory governance of nonprofit organizations: legal frameworks and voluntary self-regulation

S. Toepler and HK. Anheier

December 2021

Research Handbook on Nonprofit Governance, pp 116-139

Government/Foundation Relations: A Conceptual Framework and Evidence from the US Federal Government’s Partnership Efforts

S. Toepler, A. Abramson

March 2021

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

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