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Alan Abramson
Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program
The Aspen Institute
One DuPont Circle, Suite 700
Washington D.C. 20036
(202) 736-5800
abramson@aspeninstitute.org
Alan Abramson directs the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program
at the Aspen Institute in Washington D.C. In this capacity, he
oversees the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, the Nonprofit Sector
Strategy Group, and other research and dialogue-oriented initiatives
focused on critical nonprofit issues. In addition to holding his
full-time position at the Aspen Institute, Dr. Abramson currently
teaches on an adjunct basis in Georgetown University’s graduate
public policy program. Before joining the Aspen Institute in 1994,
he was on the research staff of The Urban Institute. He has served
on boards and advisory committees for many nonprofit organizations,
and currently is secretary of the board of the National Council
of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA). For the past several years,
the NonProfit Times has named Dr. Abramson one of the 50 most
influential leaders in the nonprofit sector. He is the author
and co-author of numerous books and papers, and his work has twice
won awards from the American Political Science Association. He
received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.
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Mary Jo Bane
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-9703
mary_jo_bane@harvard.edu
Mary Jo Bane is the Thornton Bradshaw Professor
of Public Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University. She was the Assistant Secretary
for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services from 1993-1996. From 1992-1993, Dr. Bane served
as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services,
a program with which she had previously served as Executive Deputy
Commissioner (1984-1986). Her current research interests include
the role of churches in poverty and welfare issues. She is the
author of a number of books and articles on poverty, welfare,
and families, and the co-editor of Who Will Provide? The Changing
Role of Religion in American Social Welfare (Westview Press, 2000).
She received a M.A. in Teaching and a Doctorate in Education,
both from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
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John P. Bartkowski
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Mississippi State University
Bowen Hall, Room 221
Mississippi State, MS 39762
(662) 325-8621
bartkowski@Soc.MsState.edu
John P. Bartkowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mississippi
State University. His current research explores the intersection
of religion, social welfare, and family life. He has just completed
the book, Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty Relief
in the Post-Welfare Era (New York University Press, 2002), co-authored
with Helen A. Regis. Dr. Bartkowski's work has been published
in Gender & Society, Journal of Family Issues, Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion, Qualitative Sociology, The Responsive
Community, Social Forces, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological
Quarterly, Sociology of Religion, and other journals. He is the
author of Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical
Families (Rutgers University Press, 2001), and is currently completing
another monograph, The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and
Godly Men (Rutgers University Press, 2003). He received his Ph.D.
in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997.
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Lisa R. Berlinger
Yale University
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-9574
berlinger@koan.med.yale.edu
Lisa R. Berlinger is the Director of the Program on Non-Profit
Organizations (PONPO) and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale
University. She also directs a National Seminar on Religious Leadership
to determine the Leadership, Management, and Policy Competencies
necessary for leading faith-based organizations (funded by the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation). Her current research interests include
developing leaders, and on innovation and change in organizations.
Dr. Berlinger is the author of numerous articles, including “Leaders’
Attitudes Affect Computer Use in Religious Congregations”
(with D. Te’eni, in Nonprofit Management and Leadership,
June 1999), and “Assessing the Effectiveness of Cross-Sector
Programs in an Age of Devolution: A Call to Action for Organizational
Scholars” (with P.D. Hall, PONPO Working Paper Number 239/ISPS
Working Paper Number 2239, Yale University, 1997). She received
her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Organization Theory from
the University of Texas at Austin.
Wolfgang Bielefeld
Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5143
(317) 278-0306
wbielefe@iupui.edu
Wolfgang Bielefeld is an Associate Professor of Public and Environmental
Affairs and an Adjunct Professor at the Center on Philanthropy
at Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis.
His research interests include the relations between nonprofit
organizations and their environments, the dynamics of nonprofit
sectors, the development of human service delivery systems, and
the social impacts of government human service policies and spending
patterns. Dr. Bielefeld is currently researching the origin, extent
and consequences of the spatial distribution of nonprofits of
metropolitan areas, the relations of nonprofit and for-profit
organizations, and the involvement of faith-based organizations
in service delivery. His writing has appeared in Nonprofit and
Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership,
and Social Forces, among others. He holds an M.B.A. in Marketing,
an M.A. in Sociology, and a Ph.D. in Sociology, all from the University
of Minnesota.
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Donald Boyd
Deputy Director, Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-4284
boydd@rockinst.org
Donald Boyd is the Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Institute
of Government and the Director of the Fiscal Studies Program at
the Rockefeller Institute, which conducts studies of state and
local taxes and expenditures. Prior to coming to the Institute
in January 1996, Boyd spent 16 years analyzing state and local
fiscal issues. Mr. Boyd’s previous positions include director
of the economic and revenue staff for the New York State Division
of the Budget and director of the tax staff for the New York State
Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
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Frederick A. Davie,
Jr.
Vice-President for Faith-Based Programs
Public/Private Ventures
2000 Market Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 557-4400
fdavie@ppv.org
Frederick A. Davie, Jr. is the Vice-President of Faith-Based
Programs at Public/Private Ventures, a national social policy
research organization. He has also served as Program Officer for
Faith-Based Community Development at the Ford Foundation. He is
a member of the board of directors for the Empire State Pride
Agenda, and a member of the JP Morgan Chase Community Advisory
Board and the Calvert Social Investment Board. Reverend Davie
is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
He is the author of “At A Glance: Building Social Capital
through Faith-Based Initiatives” for the Ford Foundation
and co-author of “The Promise and Perils of the Involvement
of Faith-Based Organizations in After School Programs” for
the Brookings Institute. He received a Master of Divinity degree
from Yale University and will receive a Doctor of Divinity degree
from the New York Theological Seminary in 2003.
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Carol J. De Vita
Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
The Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington D.C. 20037
(202) 833-7200
cdevita@ui.urban.org
Carol J. De Vita is a Senior Research Associate in the Center
on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, part of the Urban Institute. Her
research interests include studying the role, capacity, and networks
of nonprofit organizations, with a focus on faith-based organizations
and their ability to provide needed services in an era of welfare
reform, as well as advocacy strategies that nonprofit organizations
use to advance children’s issues. Dr. De Vita has published
numerous articles, including “Faith-based Initiatives: Sacred
Deeds and Secular Dollars” (Emerging Issues in Philanthropy,
August 2001), and Building Capacity in Nonprofit Organizations
(The Urban Institute Press, April 2001). She received an M.A.
in American History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill, an M.A. in Demography from Georgetown University, and a
Ph.D. in Social Welfare Policy from Brandeis University.
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Arthur E. Farnsley II
Research Scholar, Indiana University
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
425 University Blvd, Room 341
Indianapolis, IN 46202
afarnsle@indiana.edu
Arthur E. Farnsley II is a Senior Fellow of The Polis Center
of Indiana University, having directed the research of the Project
on Religion and Urban Culture. His work has appeared in The Christian
Century, Religious Studies News, Review of Religious Research,
Contemporary Sociology, and Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,
as well as on the op-ed pages of newspapers across the country.
He is the author of Southern Baptist Politics: Authority and Power
in the Restructuring of an American Denomination (Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1994) and contributing author, with Nancy
Ammerman, of Congregation and Community (Rutgers University Press,
1997). His new book, Rising Expectations: Urban Congregations,
Welfare Reform and Civic Life, is now available from Indiana
University Press. He received an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School
and a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Emory University.
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William Galston
Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
University of Maryland
School of Public Affairs, Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742-1821
(301) 405-6347
wg14@umail.umd.edu
William Galston is a Professor at the University of Maryland's
School of Public Affairs and Director of the university's Institute
for Philosophy and Public Policy. He also serves as director of
the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement (CIRCLE). Dr. Galston served as the Deputy Assistant
to the President for Domestic Policy under President Clinton,
as the Issues Director during Walter Mondale’s presidential
campaign (1982-1984), and a Senior Advisor during Al Gore’s
run for the Presidential nomination in 1988 and for the presidency
in 2000. Galston is a founding co-editor of The Responsive Community,
a journal that explores the issues of community, responsibility,
and the common good in public policy. His books include Liberal
Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State (Cambridge
University Press, 1991) and Liberal Pluralism: The Implications
of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (Cambridge
University Press, 2002). He received a Ph.D. in Political Science
from the University of Chicago in 1973.
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Malcolm L. Goggin
Department of Political Science
Michigan State University
303 S. Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1032
(517) 355-6590
goggin@pilot.msu.edu
Malcolm L. Goggin is a Visiting Professor of Political Science
at Michigan State University, where he is the Associate Director
of the Program in Public Policy and Administration. He is also
a senior fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
He is the author of Policy Design and the Politics of Implementation:
The Case of Child Health Policy in the American States (University
of Tennessee Press, 1987) and co-author of Implementation Theory
and Practice: Toward a Third Generation (Scott, Foresman/Little,
Brown, 1990). Dr. Goggin has also edited Governing Science and
Technology in a Democracy (University of Tennessee Press, 1986)
and Understanding the New Politics of Abortion (Sage, 1993), and
he has published widely in political science and policy journals.
He and Deborah A. Orth are currently completing a manuscript entitled
Policy Design and Political Strategy, and he is co-editing The
State of the ART: Explaining Assisted Reproductive Technology
Policy Design in Eleven Countries. He has been a Brookings Institution
Guest Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Stratheclyde
in Glasgow, Scotland. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from
Stanford University.
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Susan Grettenberger
Department of Social Work
Michigan State University
254 Baker Hall
Lansing, MI 48915
(517) 372-4146
gretten2@msu.edu
Susan Grettenberger is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the
School of Social Work at Michigan State University. Her research
interests include the potential role of religious congregations
in developing social capital. Dr. Grettenberger is also concerned
with defining appropriate roles and relationships between traditional
human service organizations and religious congregations in the
provision of human service activities. She received a Master of
Social Work degree from Jane Adams College of Social Work at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Master of Public Administration
and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Social Science from Michigan
State University.
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
1315 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-5971
kgronbj@indiana.edu
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg holds the Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy
at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and is Professor
of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, and Professor
of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.
She is also an adjunct professor of sociology at Indiana University,
Bloomington. Dr. Grønbjerg is currently working on projects
to examine the Illinois Nonprofit Sector and the scope and community
dimensions of the Indiana Nonprofit Sector. Her research interests
include how nonprofit organizations manage funding relations,
the facility needs of nonprofit human service organizations, and
public-nonprofit funding relations in areas of interest to nonprofit
organizations. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D., both in Sociology,
from the University of Chicago.
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Fredrick C. Harris
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
Harkness Hall 331
Rochester, NY 14627
(716) 275-4735
fredrick.harris@rochester.edu
Fredrick C. Harris is an Associate Professor of Political Science
and the Director of the Center for the Study of African-American
Politics at the University of Rochester. He has also served as
a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, 1998-1999.
His research interests include the impact of collective memory
on collective action, cross-national perspectives on black political
activism, and the relationship between religion and politics.
Dr. Harris is the author of Something Within: religion in African-American
Political Activism (Oxford University Press, 1999), which won
the Outstanding Book Award from the National Conference of Black
Political Scientists, the V.O. Key Award for Best Book in Southern
Politics by the Southern Political Science Association, and the
Best Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
He has also published articles in the Journal of Politics and
Policy Study Review. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern in
1994.
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Thomas H. Jeavons
General Secretary
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
1515 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 241-7210
thomj@pym.org
Thomas H. Jeavons is the General Secretary (Chief Executive)
of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends,
the largest Quaker judicatory in the United States. He is also
a Visiting Fellow at the Yale University Program on Nonprofit
Organizations at the Yale Divinity School. His research interests
include the history and practice of philanthropy, the roles of
religious traditions and organizations in American culture, and
the governance and management of all kinds of nonprofit organizations.
Dr. Jeavons is the author of numerous book chapters and articles,
as well as Growing Givers’ Hearts: Fundraising as a Ministry
(Jossey-Bass, 2000). He received an M.A. in Theology from the
Earlham School of Religion and a Ph.D. in Management and Cultural
Studies from the Union Institute.
Byron Johnson
Director, Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society,
University of Pennsylvania
3814 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 746-7100
byronj@sas.upenn.edu
Byron Johnson is a Distinguished Senior Fellow and Associate
Director of the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil
Society (CRRUCS) and Director of the Office for the Study and
Prevention of Domestic Violence, both at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a
Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Healthcare Research.
His research interests include the dynamics of domestic violence,
quantifying the effectiveness of faith-based organizations in
confronting social problems and studying faith-based and secular
mentoring programs for the children of prisoners. Professor Johnson’s
recent publications include two monographs on domestic violence
and two studies on the efficacy of the “faith factor”
in reducing crime and drug use among at-risk youth in urban communities.
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Sheila S. Kennedy
Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis
801 W. Michigan
BS 4061
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 274-2895
shekenne@iupui.edu
Sheila S. Kennedy is an Assistant Professor of Law and Public
Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and an
Adjunct faculty member to both the Political Science and the Philanthropic
Studies Departments at Indiana University. She serves on the Heartland
Pro Bono Council for the Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana
Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Ms.
Kennedy has published numerous articles and book chapters, and
has presented a number of papers, including “Government
Shekels without Government Shackles: The Administrative Challenges
of Charitable Choice” (American Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, September 2001) and “Social Responsibility,
Accountability, and U.S. Welfare Reform: The Context of America’s
Faith-Based Initiative” (The Transatlantic Policy Consortium
Annual Meeting, September 2001). She received a J.D. degree from
Indiana University School of Law.
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Joyce Keyes-Williams
Urban and Metropolitan Studies Program
Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-5769
keyeswij@rockinst.org
Joyce Keyes-Williams is the Senior Research Aide for the Roundtable
on Religion and Social Welfare Policy, part of the Urban and Metropolitan
Studies Program at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. Her
research interests include studying the partnerships between nonprofits
(specifically, the role of faith-based organizations) and government
agencies in implementing welfare reform. Ms. Keyes-Williams received
a B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley
and an M.P.A. in Public Administration and Policy from California
State University at Hayward in 1999. She is currently a doctoral
candidate at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
at the State University of New York at Albany.
Michael A. Mata
Assistant Professor of Urban Ministries
Claremont School of Theology
1325 N. College Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 626-3521
mmata@cst.edu
Michael A. Mata is the Mildred M. Hutchinson Assistant Professor
of Urban Ministry and Director of the Urban Leadership Institute
at the Claremont School of Theology. He serves on the National
Advisory Panel of the Faith-Based Community Development Program
of the National Congress for Community and Economic Development
(NCCED). His research interests include the effect of community
service on congregational life, the community-serving role of
Hispanic Protestant congregations, and the role of religion in
the lives of Latino families. Reverend Mata is also a Pastor of
Urban Mission at the Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene. He
received a Master in City Planning degree from the University
of California at Berkeley, a Master of Divinity degree from Nazarene
Theological Seminary and an M.A. in Religion from Point Loma Nazarene
College.
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Omar McRoberts
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8677
omcrober@midway.uchicago.edu
Omar McRoberts is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the
University of Chicago. His research interests include the sociology
of religion, urban sociology, urban poverty, race, and collective
action. He is currently studying black religious responses to
social welfare policy from the New Deal through President Bush’s
Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He is also beginning
a study on the cultures of death and dying among black congregations
in low-income urban settings. Dr. McRoberts is the author of Saving
Four Corners: Faith and Revitalization in a Religious District
(University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). He received a Ph.D.
in Sociology from Harvard University in 2000.
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Stephen V. Monsma
Department of Political Science
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4000
stephen.monsma@pepperdine.edu
Stephen V. Monsma is the Director of the Washington D.C. Internship
Program and a Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University.
He also holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair in Social Science at
that university. He is the author of The Challenge of Pluralism:
Church and State in Five Democracies (Rowman & Littlefield,
1997), When Sacred and Secular Mix: Religious Nonprofit Organizations
and Public Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and Positive
Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring (Baker Book House,
1993). Dr. Monsma also co-edited Equal Treatment of Religion in
a Pluralistic Society (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
1998). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Church and
State, Policy Studies Review, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics
and Public Policy, and the American Journal of Political Science.
He received his M.A. from Georgetown University and his Ph.D.
from Michigan State University.
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Lisa M. Montiel
Urban and Metropolitan Studies Program
Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-5872
montiell@rockinst.org
Lisa M. Montiel is a Research Scientist for the Roundtable and
the Rockefeller Institute of Government’s Urban and Metropolitan
Studies Program. She is responsible for database management, statistical
analysis, and research support including a program designed to
create a new conventional wisdom about the social conditions and
economic prospects of predominately minority neighborhoods in
large metropolitan areas across the United States. Prior to joining
the Institute, Ms. Montiel held teaching and research positions
at SUNY Albany in the Department of Anthropology. She received
an M.A. in Anthropology from Northern Illinois University and
is a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Albany.
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Richard Nathan
Director, Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-5834
nathanr@rockinst.org
Richard Nathan is Director of the Rockefeller Institute and the
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
at the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Nathan has
written and edited books on the implementation of domestic public
programs in the United States and on American Federalism. Prior
to coming to Albany, Dr. Nathan was a professor at Princeton University.
He served in the federal government as assistant director of the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget, deputy undersecretary for
welfare reform of the U.S. Department of Health Education and
Welfare, and director of domestic policy for the National Advisory
Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Commission).
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Deborah A. Orth
Department of Political Science
Grand Valley State University
146 Au Sable Hall
Allendale, MI 49401
(616) 895-3163
orthd@gvsu.edu
Deborah A. Orth is an Assistant Professor of Political Science
at Grand Valley State University, where she teaches public policy,
state politics, elections and voting behavior, and research methods.
She is also a senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
She is also currently co-authoring a book manuscript, Policy Design
and Political Strategy: The Dynamics of Policy Change. Dr. Orth
has also published a co-authored analysis of implementational
success in Injury Prevention, and a forthcoming article analyzing
public opinion and gubernatorial approval in State Politics and
Policy Quarterly. She has served as project director for the Utilization
of Data and Information in State Maternal and Child Health Programs,
a research program funded by the Center for Child and Adolescent
Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and
Public Health, and as a consultant for the Public Health Foundation.
She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of
Houston.
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Michael Leo Owens
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-9322
mowens4@emory.edu
Michael Leo Owens is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political
Science and a Visiting Fellow in the Office of University-Community
Partnerships at Emory University. His research interests include
community development policy, urban politics, and religion and
politics. He was the recipient of the 2000 Urban Affairs Association
Young Scholar Award and has conducted research for the Nelson
A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. Dr. Owens’ recent
research appears in Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Politics
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) and Nonprofits in Urban America
(Quorum, 2000). He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from
the State University of New York at Albany in 2001.
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Georgia A. Persons
Georgia Institute of Technology
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332
(404) 894-6510
georgia.persons@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Georgia A. Persons is a Professor of Political Science at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include
American Government and Politics, Urban Politics and Policy, and
Political Development. She serves as editor of The National Political
Science Review and is the author of The Making of Energy and Telecommunications
Policy (Praeger Publishers, 1995). She also edited and contributed
four chapters to Dilemmas of Black Politics: Issues of Leadership
and Strategy (HarperCollins, 1993). Dr. Persons’ articles
have appeared in Policy Studies Review, The National Political
Science Review, The National Civic Review, and Phylon. She received
a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
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Edward L. Queen Ph.D., J.D.
Director Leadership Education
Center for Ethics
Emory University
1462 Clifton Rd., Suite 302
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727.1240
equeen@emory.edu
Edward Queen directs the leadership education program at the Center for Ethics, Emory University. He came to Emory after serving as ISenior Researcher on the Charitable Choice Implementation Project at the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at I.U.P.U.I. The founding director of both the Islamic Society of North America’s Fellowship Program in Nonprofit Management and Governance and the Religion and Philanthropy Project at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, Queen also served as a program officer at Lilly Endowment. He received his B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College, his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.
A specialist in issues related to religion and culture, Queen’s research interests are religion and nonprofits, democratization, and civil society. He has written, co-authored, or edited numerous books on these topics, including Serving Those in Need: A Handbook for Managing Faith-Based Human Services Organizations (2000), Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions (1998), and The Encyclopedia of American Religious History (1992, rev. ed. 2002).
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Laura A. Reese
Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs
Wayne State University
225 State Hall
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-0194
laura.reese@wayne.edu
Laura A. Reese is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program and
a Fellow in the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, College of
Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, at Wayne State University.
Her research interests include exploration of local civic cultures
in the U.S. and Canada, comparative studies of urban consolidation
and metropolitan governance, analysis of both public sector and
faith-based community development policies, and the identification
and implementation of effective sexual harassment policy. Dr.
Reese’s writing has appeared in numerous journals and she
has also written The Civic Culture of Local Economic Development
with Raymond Rosenfeld (Sage Publications, 2002) and Implementing
Sexual Harassment Policy with Karen Lindenberg (Sage Publications,
1999). She received a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Political
Science.
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David Reingold
Corporation for National and Community Service
1201 New York Avenue, NW
Washington D.C. 20525
(202) 606-5000 ex. 139
dreingold@cns.gov
David Reingold is the Director of Research and Policy Development
at the Corporation for National and Community Service. He is currently
on leave from Indiana University, where he is an Assistant Professor
in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His research
interests include urban policy with a specific focus on several
mediating institutions thought to influence the life-chances of
the urban poor, including federal low-income housing policy, urban
labor markets, and faith-based nonprofit organizations. Dr. Reingold’s
work has appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,
Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, Economic Development
Quarterly, Housing Studies, and others. He is a member and Vice
Chairman of the Bloomington Housing Authority Board. He received
his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1996.
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Richard W. Roper
The Roper Group
550 Broad Street, Suite 601
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 286-2780
rwroper@brainlink.com
Richard W. Roper is the Founder and President of The Roper Group,
a public policy consulting firm that specializes in economic and
social policy research and analysis. Before establishing The Roper
Group, he served as Director of the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey’s Office of Economic and Policy Analysis.
He was also Assistant Dean for Graduate Career Services and Governmental
Relations, Director of the Program for New Jersey Affairs, Executive
Director of the Council on New Jersey Affairs, and a Lecturer
in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Mr.
Roper is the author of several articles and reports on social,
economic, political, and government operations issues. He received
an M.A. in Public Affairs from Princeton University.
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David Ryden
Department of Political Science
Hope College, Lubbers 207
126 E. 10th Street
Holland, MI 49423
(616) 395-7546
ryden@hope.edu
David Ryden is a Professor of Political Science at Hope College.
His research interests include rights and civil liberties, the
judicial process, and law and society. He is the author of Representation
in Crisis: The Constitution, Interest Groups and Political Parties
(State University of New York Press, 1996), as well as a number
of papers and articles on the constitutionality of charitable
choice and the interplay among charitable choice, African-American
communities, and black clergy. Dr. Ryden also edited The U.S.
Supreme Court and the Electoral Process (Georgetown University
Press, 2000). He earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota
and a Ph.D. in American Politics/Constitutional Studies from the
Catholic University of America.
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Jason Scott
Urban and Metropolitan Studies Program
Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-5690
scottj@rockinst.org
Jason Scott is a Research Scientist for the Roundtable on Religion
and Social Welfare Policy at the Urban and Metropolitan Studies
Program, part of the Rockefeller Institute of Government. He recently
served as Project Coordinator for the Police-Community Interaction
Project (PCIP). PCIP was a four-year study funded by the National
Institute of Justice, aimed at defining and measuring the community-building
dimensions contained within collaborative police-community partnerships.
An article based on this research is forthcoming in the Journal
of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Mr. Scott’s research interests
include community policing, community capacity building, and social
capital. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Criminal Justice
at the State University of New York at Albany.
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Amy L. Sherman
Senior Fellow, Welfare Policy Center
Hudson Institute
5395 Emerson Way
Indianapolis, IN 46226
(317) 549-4102
shermana@cstone.net
Amy L. Sherman is a Senior Fellow at the Welfare Policy Center
of the Hudson Institute, where she directs the Faith in Communities
Initiative. She also serves as Urban Ministries Advisor at Trinity
Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. This Spring
and Summer, she will be overseeing a national telephone survey
of faith-based organizations collaborating with government. Dr.
Sherman’s writing has appeared in The Public Interest, Policy
Review, First Things, Christianity Today, and others. She is the
author of Reinvigorating Faith in Communities (Hudson Institute,
2002), Restorers of Hope: Reaching the Poor in Your Community
with Church-Based Ministries That Work (Crossway Books, 1997)
and the recently released Collaborations Catalogue: A Report on
Charitable Choice Implementation in 15 States (Hudson Institute,
March 2002). She received a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs/Economic
Development from the University of Virginia in 1994.
Peter Shiras
Senior Vice President for Programs
Independent Sector
1220 Eighteenth Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington D.C. 20036
(202) 467-6100
peter@independentsector.org
Peter Shiras is the Senior Vice President for Programs at Independent
Sector, a coalition dedicated to promoting, strengthening and
advancing the nonprofit sector for the public good. He serves
on the boards of the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance
and the National Center for Nonprofit Enterprise. He has also
served as Vice President and Director of Government Relations
and Public Outreach of InterAction, an association of international
relief and development organizations. Mr. Shiras is the author
of numerous articles and book chapters. His work has appeared
in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science
Monitor, and The Baltimore Sun. He received an M.S. in Agricultural
Economics from Cornell University.
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R. Drew Smith
Scholar-In-Residence
The Leadership Center, Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
(404) 614-8565
rsmith@morehouse.edu
R. Drew Smith directs the Public Influences of African-American
Churches Project and the Faith Communities and Urban Families
Project. He is the Scholar-in-Residence at the Leadership Center
at Morehouse College. He is also a Baptist Minister and has experience
with both parish ministry and prison chaplaincy. Dr. Smith has
taught at Indiana University, Butler University, and New York
Theological Seminary. He has written numerous articles and book
chapters on American religion and politics. He is the editor of
three forthcoming books on African-American Churches and public
life. He received a Master of Divinity degree in Social Ethics
from Yale Divinity School, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political
Science from Yale University.
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Steven Rathgeb Smith
Department of Public Affairs
University of Washington
109 Parrington Hall, Box 353055
Seattle, WA 98195-3055
(206) 616-1674
smithsr@u.washington.edu
Steven Rathgeb Smith is an Associate Professor at the Daniel
J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
He is also the editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
(NVSQ), the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). He has recently completed
a study with Michael R. Sosin of the University of Chicago of
the impact of welfare reform and devolution on faith-related service
agencies. His article with Michael Sosin, "The Varieties
of Faith-Related Agencies", was recently published in Public
Administration Review (November/December 2001). Professor Smith
is also the co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State
in the Age of Contracting (1993) and co-editor of Public Policy
for Democracy (1993). He received an M.S.W. from Washington University
and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
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Peter W. Spoto
Researcher, Center for Religion and Civic Culture
The University of Southern California
835 W. 34th Street, Suite 106
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0751
(213) 740-8562
spoto@usc.edu
Peter W. Spoto is a Researcher/Research Assistant for the California
Religious Community Capacity Expansion Project for the California
Religious Community Capacity Expansion Project, a partnership
between the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University
of Southern California and the California Council of Churches.
His research interests focus on the emergence of new forms of
public and private collaboration that involve religious institutions
in the social services arena. He was a researcher for Religion
and Welfare Reform in Southern California: Is Charitable Choice
Succeeding? (by John B. Orr, with Carolyn Mounts, Center for Religion
and Civic Culture at USC, 2001). Mr. Spoto is currently developing
a series of criteria-driven Promising Practices essays in his
capacity as a Research Assistant at the University of Southern
California. He received an M.A. in Religion and Social Ethics
from the University of Southern California. He is currently enrolled
in the doctoral program at that university in Religion and Social
Ethics and will receive his Ph.D. in 2003.
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Harold Dean Trulear
Mt. Pleaseant Baptist Church
101 Washington Avenue
Twin Oaks, PA 19014
(610) 497-1144
hdtrulear@msn.com
Harold Dean Trulear is the Senior Pastor of the Mount Pleasant
Baptist Church of Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania. He also teaches at
the Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia and serves
on the boards of Evangelicals for Social Action, the Center for
Public Justice, and the Christian Academy of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania.
He has written a number of articles and essays and his writing
has appeared in The Journal of Religious Thought, American Baptist
Quarterly, and Auburn Studies. Dr. Trulear serves on the editorial
boards of Prism and The Living Pulpit. He received a Master of
Philosophy degree and a Ph.D. from Drew University.
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Heidi R. Unruh
Associate Director of the Congregations, Communities and Leadership
Development Project
Eastern Baptist Seminary
163 Community Drive
Lansdale, PA 19446
(215) 412-5344
ccldp@erols.com
Heidi R. Unruh is the Associate Director of the Congregations,
Communities and Leadership Development Project at Eastern Baptist
Seminary, and is a policy analyst with Evangelicals for Social
Action. Ms. Unruh and her husband also serve as Community Support
Staff at Dock Village, a faith-based subsidized housing complex.
She is the co-author of Churches That Make a Difference: Reaching
Your Community with Good News and Good Works with Ronald J. Sider
and Phil Olson (Baker Books, 2002). Ms. Unruh has also written
“Evangelism and Church-State Partnerships” with Ronald
J. Sider (Journal of Church and State, Vol. 43, 2, Spring 2001,
p. 267-295) and “Churches and Public Funds: Risks or Rewards?”
with Jill Witmer Sinha (PRISM, March/April 2001, p. 11-13), as
well as numerous other articles and book chapters. Ms. Unruh and
Ronald Sider are currently working on a book on faith-based social
services to be published by Oxford University Press. She received
an M.A. in Theology and Public Policy from Eastern Baptist Theological
Seminary in 1996.
Robert J. Wineburg
Department of Social Work
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
(336) 334-5228
bob_wineburg@UNCG.edu
Robert J. Wineburg is currently The Jefferson Pilot Excellence
Professor of Social Work at UNC Greensboro. His research for the
last 20 years has been on trying to understand the relationship
between how policy is formulated at the federal and state levels,
and how those policies actually affect agencies and organizations
at the local level. His major focus is on determining how public
and private nonprofit organizations use resources from the religious
community to meet local needs. Dr. Wineburg was a member of the
Governor of North Carolina's Task Force on Community Initiatives
regarding the 1996 Welfare Reform. He is the advisor for Welfare
Reform Liaison Project, the nation’s first faith-based Community
Action Agency. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and
is the author of the book titled: The Limited Partnership: The
Politics of Religion, Welfare, and Social Service (Columbia University
Press, 2001). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Christopher Winship
Department of Sociology, Harvard University
William James Hall, 6th Floor
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-5794
winship@wjh.harvard.edu
Christopher Winship is a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology,
Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University. His substantive
research interests include The Ten Point Coalition, a group of
black ministers working with police in Boston to reduce youth
violence, the effects of education on mental ability, causes of
racial differences in performance at elite colleges and universities,
and changes in the racial differential in imprisonment rates over
the past 60 years. Dr. Winship is editor of Sociological Methods
and Research and also does research on statistical models. He
received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
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Julian Wolpert
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
444 Robertson Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-5931
jwolpert@princeton.edu
Julian Wolpert is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Geography,
Public Affairs, and Urban Planning at the Woodrow Wilson School
of Princeton University. His research interests include the provision
and delivery of public and nonprofit services, urban development,
and environmental policy. He has been a fellow of the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Guggenheim fellow,
a Russell Sage fellow, and a Wilson Center fellow. Dr. Wolpert
is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin.
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Richard L. Wood
Department of Sociology
University of New Mexico
University Hill Northeast
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-3945
rlwood@unm.edu
Richard L. Wood is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the
University of New Mexico. He also serves as a Principal Investigator
at UNM’s Institute for Social Research. Dr. Wood is the
author of Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing
in America, to be published in July 2002 by the University of
Chicago Press; “Faith and Politics in the Public University”
(from Listening: A Journal of Religion and Culture, May 2001);
“Religion, Faith-Based Organizing and the Struggle for Justice”
(in The Cambridge Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Michele
Dillon, ed. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming December 2002),
and “Does Religion Matter? Projecting Democratic Power into
the Public Arena” (in Religion and Social Capital, Corwin
Smidt, ed. Georgetown University Press, 2002). He received an
M.A. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley,
an M.A. in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union, and a
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley.
David J. Wright
Director, Urban and Metropolitan Studies Program
Rockefeller Institute of Government
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-5014
wrightd@rockinst.org
David J. Wright is Associate Director of the Roundtable on Religion
and Social Welfare Policy and Director of Urban/Metro Studies
at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, SUNY. His research
interests focus on the role and effectiveness of community organizations
in neighborhood development and in social service delivery. Mr.
Wright is currently researching and writing about social capital
in majority African-American neighborhoods, and on nonprofit collaboration
and public partnerships under welfare devolution. He recently
directed national field network studies on the effects of welfare
reform on community development corporations, on implementation
of the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community program, and on the
Neighborhood Preservation Initiative. He is the author most recently
of It Takes a Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent Urban Decline.
Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Wright served as Deputy Secretary
to New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo for policy and program design.
Linda Yankoski
Holy Family Institute
8235 Ohio River Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15202-1594
(412) 766-4030
yankoski.linda@hfi-pgh.org
Linda Yankoski is a Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth and
the President of Holy Family Institute (HFI), one of the largest
social service agencies in Western Pennsylvania. HFI provides
services to over 6,000 children and families with a staff of 500
at 10 different program sites. Her research interests include
the impact of government funding on the religious mission of religiously
affiliated organizations. Sister Yankoski received a M.S. in Administration
from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently enrolled in
the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Educational Leaders
at Duquesne University.
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