Alan R. Andreasen is professor of marketing and executive director of the Social Marketing Institute in the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. Andreasen is a member of several academic and professional associations and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Policy, the Journal of Consumer Research, Social Marketing Quarterly, and the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing. His publications include 18 books and over a hundred articles and conference papers. His most recent books are Social Marketing in the 21st Century, Ethics in Social Marketing, and Strategic Marketing in Nonprofit Organizations, 7th edition (coauthored with Philip Kotler). A consultant to many organizations, including the World Bank, the American Cancer Society, and the Centers for Disease Control, Professor Andreasen conducts executive seminars worldwide for diverse nonprofit and private sector organizations and government agencies.
Evelyn Brody is a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, having visited at Penn, Duke, and NYU law schools. She teaches courses on tax and nonprofit law. She has worked in private practice and with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy. A reporter of the American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, Professor Brody is also an associate scholar with the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. She served as a member of the Nonprofit Sector’s expert advisory group, and, in 2004 and 2006, was an invited presenter to Senate Finance Committee Staff Roundtables. She serves as an advisory board member of Columbia Law School’s Charities Law Project.
Harry P. Hatry is a distinguished fellow and director of the Public Management Program for the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He has been a leader in developing performance measurement and evaluation procedures for federal, state, and local public and private agencies since the 1970s and has provided assistance on activities related to the Government Performance and Results Act to several government agencies. His book, Performance Measurement: Getting Results, is widely used and has been translated into two other languages. He is a coeditor of the Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation, coauthor of How Effective Are Your Community Services? Procedures for Performance Measurement, and coauthor of the United Way of America’s widely disseminated report "Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical Approach." He is an author and coeditor of a recent series of six guides on "Outcome Management for Nonprofit Organizations."
Linda M. Lampkin is a research director of the Economic Research Institute and heads up the Washington, D.C., office. As former director of the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute, she was responsible for creating a database of the IRS Form 990 information filed annually by charities and managed research projects on the nonprofit sector. She was also responsible for the classification system for nonprofits used by IRS and researchers in the field. Coauthor of the New Nonprofit Almanac and Desk Reference, she has published articles and spoken extensively on the nonprofit sector, with particular emphasis on data sources, tracking outcomes, and financial accounting. She served as a member of the IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee and received the IRS Commissioner’s Award for her work on electronic filing of Form 990.
Burton Sonenstein is vice president and chief investment officer/acting vice president for finance and administration at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Burton Sonenstein is responsible for assuring that the foundation’s financial resources serve its mission and programs. He oversees investments and the management of the foundation’s endowment, and helps program staff with their grant portfolios. His roles have included founder and CEO of United Insurance Management Company, president and CEO of United Educators Insurance, vice president of finance and administration at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, vice president and treasurer at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and a practicing CPA and management consultant at KPMG Peat Marwick.
Howard P. Tuckman is the dean of the Fordham University Graduate School of Business, dean of the business faculty, professor of finance and economics, and holder of the George N. Jean Chair in Business. Prior to joining Fordham University, Dr. Tuckman served as distinguished professor of economics and interim dean of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis, dean of the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University, and, most recently, dean of Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick. A consultant for corporate and government agencies, he is the author of eight books and over 130 refereed journal articles. He has served as a consultant to private, nonprofit, and government entities and is on a variety of nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors.
Eric C. Twombly is a principal research associate and the director of organizational studies at KDH Research and Communication (KDHRC), a public health research institution, where he studies health delivery mechanisms and health literacy programs. He is an expert on the organizational behavior of community-based health and human service providers, and he has been the chief evaluator on several public health projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. Before joining KDHRC, he was a senior research associate at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute and an assistant professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, where he continues to lecture on public policy and social policy issues.
Christa Velasquez is the director of social investments at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization whose principal mission is to help build better futures for disadvantaged children and families. She is responsible for managing the foundation’s $100 million social investment fund and implements investment strategy, designs investment policies, and educates staff about social investments. She spent six years at the consulting firm Brody-Weiser-Burns, specializing in social investing, community development financing, and business planning for social ventures. A board member of TRF Urban Growth Partners, the American Visionary Art Museum, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, she is also a member of the advisory committee of the Yale University School of Management Internship Fund.
Dennis R. Young is the director of the Nonprofit Studies Program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, and Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise. Professor Young helped establish the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western and was its director from 1988 to 1996. A former president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Professor Young has written many articles and several books, including coauthoring Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads and Economics for Nonprofit Managers and editing two recent volumes on the economics of nonprofit organizations. He is also founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership, which he edited from 1990 through 2000.
Nonprofits and Business, edited by Joseph J. Cordes and C. Eugene Steuerle, is available from the Urban Institute Press (ISBN 978-0-87766-741-4, paper, 296 pages, $29.50).
