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Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy (Center on Philanthropy)
Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs |
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Professor Grønbjerg's interests focus on the nonprofit sector, broadly defined and the sector's relationship to government and the business sector. Her current work examines the scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector. Her previous research and publications have examined the American welfare system, how nonprofit organizations manage funding relations, the facility needs of nonprofit human service organizations, the structure of private child welfare organizations, longitudinal changes in the grants and contract system of a large state human service agency, and public and philanthropic planning and funding structures in human services. She received the 2005 Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action). For more information, see full background sketch.
Several surveys of Indiana nonprofits, including one currently underway for the Indiana Arts Commission on capacity-building and technical assistance based on a similar survey conducted for the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance and Lumina Foundation for Education in 2007. An initial 2002 survey of Indiana nonprofits of all types included large enough samples in each of twelve communities to profile the sector in each of those communities, as well as statewide. Several reports from that effort are now available.
An analysis of Indiana nonprofit employment that provides information on the size, composition, and distribution of paid employment in the Indiana private nonprofit sector, with comparisons to for-profit and government sector employment and trends over time. Several reports are now available.
The first-ever statewide database of all types of nonprofits – charities, congregations, advocacy, and mutual-benefit organizations of all sorts – a total of almost 60,000 nonprofits for the state of Indiana, soon available as a searchable database at the website of the Indiana Business Research Center.
Community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector - analysis of how the sector varies among Indiana counties and selected communities across the state, including profiles of the nonprofit sector in those communities.
Interviews with 526 Indiana residents to examine the extent to which they work for, attend meetings at, or do volunteer work for nonprofits.
For more information, click here for the Indiana Nonprofit Sector project web page.
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Professsor Grønbjerg received the 2005 Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) in November, 2005. Other recent awards include Honorable Mention, the Mayor’s Award for Civic Engagement (Bloomington, IN., 2004), and Outstanding Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Article Award 2001, for “Philanthropic Funding of Human Services: Solving Ambiguity Through the Two-Stage Competitive Process” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 29 (No.1, Supplement 2000): 9-40. By Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Laura Martell, with Laurie Paarlberg.
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For more information, see full curriculum vita.
Now available online: Kirsten A. Grønbjerg: Understanding Nonprofit Funding: Managing Revenues in Human Services and Community Development Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers, Inc. 1993. URL: http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/u?/PRO,25228.
2008 "Fundraising." Pp. 236-39 in The Encyclopedia of Social Work, Twentieth Edition, edited by Terry Mizrahi and Larry E. Davis. New York. N.Y., Oxford University Press.
2007 Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2007 Report by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Andrea Lewis and Pauline Campbell. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. (www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm).
2007 Nonprofit Capacity Assessment: Indiana Charities, 2007. Nonprofit Capacity Assessment Survey Series, Report #1, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Laney Cheney with the Assistance of Scott Leadingham and Helen Liu. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, May. (www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npcapacity/charitycapacityassessment.html.
2007 "Infrastructure and Activities: Relating IT to the Work of Nonprofit Organizations" by Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Pp. 3-20 In Nonprofits and Technology, edited by Michael Cortés and Kevin Rafter. Chicago: Lyceum Press. Revised version of paper presented at Symposium on Nonprofit Technology Adoption, University of San Francisco, Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management, October, 2004.
2007 "Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations: Their Characteristics and Activities" by Curtis D. Child and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Social Science Quarterly 88 (No. 1, March): 259-81. Revised version of paper presented at International Society for Third Sector Research, Toronto, Canada, July 11-14, 2004.
2007 "The Capacities and Challenges of Faith-Based Human Service Organizations" by Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Public Administration Review 67 (No. 1, January – February): 115-126. Revised version of paper presented at American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 14-17, 2003. Previous versions of this paper were also presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, Seattle, August 3-6, 2004 and Independent Sector Spring Research Forum, Washington, D.C.: March 6-8, 2003.
2006 "Foundation Legitimacy at the Community Level: The Case of Community Foundations in the U.S." Pp. 150-74 in Foundations and the Challenge of Legitimacy in Comparative Perspective, edited by Kenneth Prewitt, Mattei Dogan, Steven Heydemann, and Stefan Toepler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Revised version of paper previously presented at the Annual Meetings of ARNOVA, November 17-19, 2004, Los Angeles, California, and conference on “The Legitimacy of Philanthropic Foundations: U.S. and European Perspectives.” Social Science Research Council and Foundation Mattei Dogan, Paris, France. May 26-29, 2004.
2006 "Scope and Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations" by Steven Rathgeb Smith and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Pp. 221-42 in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd Edition, edited by Walter W. Powell and Richard S. Steinberg (New Haven: Yale University Press).
2006 Indiana Nonprofits: A Portrait of Religious Nonprofits and Secular Charities by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Patricia Borntrager Tennen, Curtis Child, and Richard Clerkin. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. June. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insfaithbased.html.
2005 Indiana Nonprofits: A Profile of Membership Organizations by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. October. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insmember.html
2005 "Examining the Landscape of Indiana's Nonprofit Sector: Does What You Know Depend on Where You Look?" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard Clerkin. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 34 (No. 2, June): 232-59. Revised version of paper presented at Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, LA., August 8-11, 2004. Revised from paper presented at the Annual Meetings of ARNOVA, November 18-20, 2003, Denver, Colorado.
2005 Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2005 Report by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg & Erich T. Eschmann. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. (www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm). Excerpted as “The Economic Impact of Indiana’s Nonprofits.” INContext 6 (NO. 3, May-June): 9. available online at www.ibrc.indiana.edu.
2004 Indiana Nonprofits: Affiliations, Collaborations and Competition by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. November. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insaffil.html
2004 "Philanthropy and the Human Services." Pp. 248-54 in The Encyclopedia of Philanthropy, edited by Dwight Burlingame. ABC-CLIO Press.
2004 Indiana Nonprofits: Managing Financial and Human Resources by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard M. Clerkin. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. August. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insmanag.html.
2004 "Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit Relations" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Lester M. Salamon. Pp. 126-57 in Transatlantic Perspectives on Liberalization and Democratic Governance, edited by Eberhard Bohne, Charles Bonser, and Kenneth Spencer. Transatlantic Public Policy Series, Vol. 1 (Munster – Hamburg – Berlin – London: LIT Verlag). Revised version of paper presented at the Transatlantic Policy Consortium, Speyer, Germany, June 16-18. Reprinted from State of Nonprofit America, edited by Lester M. Salamon. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2002.
2004 Indiana Nonprofits: Impact of Community and Policy Changes by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. June. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/inscom.html
2004 "Role of Religious Networks and Other Factors in Different Types of Volunteer Work" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Brent Never. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 14 (No. 3, Spring): 263-90.
2004 The Indiana Nonprofit Sector: A Profile by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Linda Allen. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. February. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insprofile.html
2003 Illinois Nonprofits: A Profile of Charities and Advocacy Organizations by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Chicago, IL: Donors Forum of Chicago. December. Available online at http://www.donorsforum.org.
2003 "Nonprofit Management Education: Taking Advantage of the Public Administration Setting" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg & Elizabethann O'Sullivan. Journal of Public Affairs Education 9 (No. 3, July): 165-8.
2003 Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2001 by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg & Hun Myoung Park. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. July. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm. Excerpted as "Study Explores Economic Impact of Indiana Nonprofits" Indiana Business Review 78 (No. 2, Summer 2003):7-8, and as "Study Finds Nonprofits is a Major Economic Force for Indiana" INContext 4 (No. 4, July-August):4; both available online at www.ibrc.indiana.edu
2003 The Indianapolis Nonprofit Sector: Management Capacities and Challenges by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard Clerkin. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. February. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/indymanag.html
2002 "United Way of Chicago: Perspectives on Key Planning Issues by Major Constituency Groups" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, David Todd Campbell, Lori Harmon, Aida Olkkonen, Tracy Printen, and Asif Raza. Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Working Paper Series. Reprint of report presented to United Way of Chicago Planning Committee, May 1995. Summary published as "United Way at the Crossroads: Valuable Lessons From United Way of Chicago." Snapshots: Research Highlights from the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund No. 26 (November/December 2002). Available online at http://www.nonprofitresearch.org/usr_doc/Nov_Dec_02_Snapsh.pdf
2002 "Devolution, Marketization, and the Changing Shape of Government-Nonprofit Relations" by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Lester M. Salamon. Pp. 447-71 in The State of the Nonprofit Sector, edited by Lester M. Salamon (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution).
2002 "Extent and Nature of Overlap Between Two Nonprofit Databases: IRS Tax-Exempt Registrations and Nonprofit Incorporation in Indiana" by Kirsten Grønbjerg and Laurie Paarlberg. Revised version of paper presented at the Annual Meetings of ARNOVA, Miami, FL., November 29-December 1, 2001. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 31 (No. 4, December): 565-94.
2002 "Evaluating Nonprofit Databases" American Behavioral Scientist 45 (11, July): 1742-78. Revised version of paper presented under slightly different titles at the Annual Meetings of ARNOVA, Miami, FL., November 29-December 1 and at Conference on Data Resources and Research Opportunities, Social Science Research Council. Washington, D.C. October 4.“
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V521 - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector (Spring 2008)
V558 Fund Development for Nonprofit Organizations (Fall 2007)