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

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments This book represents the product of two collaborative research projects, and, as one might guess, there are many people to thank. The two surveys of nonprofits in Seattle and Washington, DC, led by Robert J. Pekkanen and Steven Rathgeb Smith, were conducted by the Survey Research Division (SRD) of the University of Washington and the Urban Institute , respectively. We thank Diane Christiansen, Kimberly Cooperrider, Charlotte Eidlin, Kate Fernandez, Amy Haslund, Andrea Valdez, and Danielle Woodward at SRD, and Elizabeth Boris and Carol J. DeVita at the Urban Institute. Support for these surveys came from two projects funded at the University of Tsukuba by the Ministry of Education of Japan and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and headed by Yutaka Tsujinaka: “A Comparative and Empirical Study of the Structural Changes in Politics and Transformations in Pressure Groups, Policy Networks, and Civil Society in Japan since 2009,” grant-in-aid for scientific research (S) led by Yutaka Tsujinaka (2010–15), and “A Comparative Empirical Study on the Three-Level Civil Society Structure and Governance in Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany and China in Comparative Perspective,” specially promoted research, MEXT, led by Yutaka Tsujinaka (2005–10). As described in this book, Yutaka’s pioneering surveys of nonprofits in over a dozen countries were the initial spark for this project on American nonprofit advocacy. We also thank Jae Young Choe and Takafumi Ohtomo at the University of Tsukuba for their assistance. We would like to thank at the University of Washington Hironori Sasada (now at the University of Hokkaido) and Anne Buffardi (now at Oxfam International ) for excellent research support early in the project, and Saadia Pekkanen for her advice. We are grateful for the support of the Nancy Bell Evans Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Evans School of Pub- xiv Acknowledgments lic Affairs at the University of Washington, and Filemon Gonzales, Dvorah Oppenheimer, Toni Read, and Diane Scillo at the Jackson School of International Studies. Julita Liauw Eleveld, program manager of the Nancy Bell Evans Center, was especially helpful in the early stages of the project. The Georgetown Public Policy Institute supported this project, and the Graduate School at Georgetown University as well as the University of Tsukaba provided financial support for an authors’ conference in 2011. Deborah Auger, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Kirsten Grønbjerg, and Karla Simon provided incisive comments as discussants at this conference. Kate Anderson Simons, during her time as a graduate student at Georgetown, provided excellent research assistance to the project. Natalie C. Alm also provided invaluable and timely assistance with the editing process for the manuscript. A terrific advisory committee composed of nonprofit community leaders in Seattle assisted us with the design and implementation of the survey. In Seattle , we would like to thank Putnam Barber, Mary Kay Gugerty, David Harrison , and Cory Sbarbaro for their advice and feedback on the Seattle survey. We also thank Keiko Sato. David Reingold and Kirsten Grønbjerg (again) provided insightful comments as discussants on an International Studies Association meeting panel in San Francisco. This project would have been impossible without the fantastic group of authors represented on the following pages. At Johns Hopkins University Press, Henry Tom provided early encouragement for us to bring our manuscript to the Press for review and publication. Our current editor, Suzanne Flinchbaugh, provided sage and thoughtful advice throughout the process and contributed to the shaping of the manuscript . We greatly appreciate her enthusiastic support for our book. Robert wishes to thank his family for their perpetual support. Steven would like to express his enduring gratitude to his wife, Penny, for her support . Nonprofits and Advocacy This page intentionally left blank ...