Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment

List of Contributors

contributors alan j. abramson is a professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University and founding director of Mason’s Center for Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Policy. He is also a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute and an affiliated scholar at the Urban Institute. gary d. bass is executive director of the Bauman Foundation and an affiliated professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. jeffrey m. berry is the John Richard Skuse Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. elizabeth t. boris, PhD, is director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. The center conducts research on the nonprofit sector and develops and provides data to the public through its National Center for Charitable Statistics. Author of many research publications , Boris also serves on numerous nonprofit boards and advisory committees. carol j. devita is a former senior fellow at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. emily dewey is the Colorado Health Coverage Guide for the Small Business Majority. kristin goss is an associate professor of public policy and political science at Duke University and is the director of the Duke in D.C. Program. doug imig is a professor of political science at the University of Memphis and resident fellow at the Urban Child Institute. His work concerns efforts to build an effective political voice for children over the last century. matthew maronick is a PhD candidate and adjunct professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. 296 Contributors jennifer e. mosley is an associate professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. milena nikolova is a PhD candidate in international development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and nonresident researcher at the Brookings Institution. robert j. pekkanen is a professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. kent e. portney is a professor of political science at Tufts University. He is author of Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, Quality of Life, and the Environment in American Cities, 2nd edition. He is also coauthor of The Rebirth of Urban Democracy and numerous other books. katie l. roeger is the former assistant program director of the National Center for Charitable Statistics, a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. jodi sandfort is an associate professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, as well as chair of the school’s leadership and management concentration. steven rathgeb smith is the executive director of the American Political Science Association. He was most previously the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Public Administration at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He was also the Nancy Bell Evans Professor at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. dara z. strolovitch is an associate professor at Princeton University, where she teaches in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Politics. yutaka tsujinaka is a professor of humanities and social sciences and vice president for international affairs at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. ...