The following are reports and publications produced by the faculty, staff, and students associated with the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy.
NEW: Resilient Nonprofits: How Western Washington Nonprofits Have Been Coping with the Impact of the Economic Downturn (156 KB PDF) is a report summarizing recent interviews of nonprofit executive directors and program managers throughout the region, conducted by Evans School graduate students.
Voluntary Regulation of NGOs and Nonprofits: An Accountability Club Framework by Associate Professor Mary Kay Gugerty and professor of political science, Aseem Prakash. The book examines the use of voluntary accountability clubs – a format used by nonprofits to respond to demonstrate accountability to stakeholders – in the United States, the Netherlands, Africa, and Central Europe.
Chapter on Foundations and Public Policy in the Brookings Institute book, American Foundations, by Professor Steven Rathgeb Smith.
Soliciting for Charitable Contributions in Washington: An Overview (1.1 MB PDF) by Nancy Bell Evans Center Senior Advisor Putnam Barber covers the basics of Washington's charitable contributions law. It is designed to assist board members, fundraising staff, and anyone planning to seek contributions for a charitable purpose in Washington state with understanding how state statute and regulations may affect their activities. You can also read the spring 2011 update.
Summary of Findings (25.8 KB PDF) from the Seattle portion of the International JIGS Project, a series of broad surveys of civil society organizations under the leadership of Yutaka Tsujinaka of the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The Seattle Comprehensive Nonprofit Survey Project was directed by Professors Steven Rathgeb Smith and Robert Pekkanen.
Review of Statewide Nonprofit Associations (200 KB PDF) by Jennifer Genung Rigg is an overview of statewide associations of nonprofits developed in 2005 with support from the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy.
Nonprofit Board Excellence Workshop (1.7 MB PDF) by Trisha Matthieu is a training workbook for board members with useful insights for anyone involved with nonprofit organizations. The workbook was developed in 2004 with support from the Scottish Rite Scholarship Foundation of Washington and the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy.
Recipes for Success: 97 Innovations and Solutions Developed by Emergency Food Providers in Washington State (980 KB PDF) by Evans School alumna Laura Pierce (MPA ’96) is a best-practices guide of handling challenges in emergency food programs operations or delivery services. The guide was created for the Washington Food Coalition with the assistance of Nancy Bell Evans Center Senior Advisor Cory Sbararo and former research assistant Mara Brain.
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