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Lester M. Salamon is a
Professor at The Johns Hopkins University and Director of the
Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. He previously
served as Director of the Center for Governance and Management
Research at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and as Deputy
Associate Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in
the Executive Office of the President. Dr. Salamon pioneered the empirical study of
the nonprofit sector in the United States and has extended this work to other parts of the world. His book, America's Nonprofit Sector: A Primer, is the standard text used in college-level courses on the nonprofit sector in the United States. His Partners in Public Service: Government and the Nonprofit Sector in the Modern Welfare State (Johns Hopkins University Press) won the 1996 ARNOVA Award for Distinguished Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector, produced in collaboration with an international team of colleagues, won the Virginia Hodgkinson Award for best publication in the nonprofit field in 2001. Author of more than a dozen books, Dr. Salamon's most recent publications include The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance (Oxford University Press, 2002) and The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America (Brookings Institution Press, 2003). Dr. Salamon received his B.A. degree in Economics and Policy Studies from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University . He is Chairman of the Board of the Community Foundation of the Chesapeake and serves on the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector.
Listen to an interview with Dr. Salamon.
Hillary Belzer is Project Assistant for the Listening Post Project. Previously she worked for a number of nonprofit organizations, including Americans for the Arts, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has a B.A. in Art History from Loyola College in Baltimore and a M.A. in Culture, Communication and Technology from Georgetown University.
Mimi Bilzor is Communications
Associate at the Center. Before joining the Center, she was a
senior program specialist with the American Association of
Retired Persons in Washington, D.C. and previously coordinated
volunteer programs and public relations for the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Annapolis, Maryland. She
received her M.L.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Stephanie Geller is a Research Associate for the Listening Post Project and manages the Nonprofit Employment Data Project. She received her M.S.W. with a
specialization in Social and Community Development from
the University of Maryland School of Social Work and has a B.S. in Urban and Regional Studies from Cornell University.
Previously, she worked as an Economic Development
Coordinator at Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and as
a Research Associate at the National Center for
Economic and Security Alternatives in Washington, D.C.
Megan Haddock is the United Nations Nonprofit Handbook Project Coordinator. She received her Masters in Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Institute of Policy Studies. Before joining the Center she was a research assistant with the International Society for Third Sector Research.
Susan Lorentz is Research Data Analyst at the Center for Civil Society Studies. Dr. Lorentz received her Ph.D. in Educational Research from the Union Institute & University and graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a B.A. in Psychology. She previously worked for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Social Organization of Schools, where she conducted data analysis as well as designing and managing research projects. Additionally, she worked on program evaluation and research studies at the Community-Social Psychology Lab of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her publications have focused on the academic learning environment, and improving high poverty schools.
S. Wojciech Sokolowski is Senior Research Associate for the Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project and the Nonprofit Employment Data Project. Dr. Sokolowski received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University, an M.A. in Philosophy from the Lublin Catholic University in Poland, and an M.A. in Sociology from San Jose State University. He has taught at Hartnell College, Rutgers University, and Morgan State University. Dr. Sokolowski is the author of Civil Society and the Professions in Eastern Europe: Social Change and Organization in Poland (Plenum/Kluwer, 2001) and a co-author of Measuring Volunteering: A Practical Toolkit (Independent Sector/United Nations Volunteers, 2001). His research interests focus on the interaction between individuals and social institutions and social determinants of cognitive processes, and include writing on social movements, organizations, work, occupations and professions. His publications have appeared in Voluntas, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, The International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, The International Journal of Cultural Policy and several edited volumes.
Helen Stone Tice is
Senior
Research Associate at the Center. Dr. Tice manages the
Global
Nonprofit Information System Project, a cooperative project
with
the
UN Statistics Division to improve the treatment of the
nonprofit
sector in the official system that guides economic data
gathering
around the world. Prior to joining the Center, Dr. Tice
was a
senior economist with the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
in
the U.S. Department of Commerce, the agency with primary
responsibility for the U.S. economic accounts. A specialist
in
national economic accounting, Dr. Tice led BEA's efforts to
incorporate the nonprofit sector into U.S. economic
accounts.
Dr. Tice received her Ph.D. in Economics
from Yale University. She has authored and co-authored
numerous
BEA reports and has published articles in The Review of
Income
and Wealth, Voluntas, and other publications.
Robin Wehrlin is the Special Assistant to the Director of the Center. She has worked previously in the non profit field and with consulting firms on federal contracts, along with providing desktop publishing, sales, accounting, human resource and research work in various markets.
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