Dissertations

2024

Jin Ai
Intellectual Structure and Dynamics of Novelty Within Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies : A Computational and Structural Analysis

Anita Anglade
Decolonizing Benevolence : Can Faith Leaders Move the Mark Toward Equity to Create an Alternative to the White Savior Complex?

Dana Doan
Experiencing Nonprofits in Vietnam : What Matters Most to the People Nonprofits Aim to Serve

Yue Ming 
Board and Staff Representation and Grantmaking in Community Foundations : The Effect of Racial Representation, Intersectionality, and Donor Control

Andrew Williams

Christian Personalism and Human Rights Prior to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Philosophical and Theological Exploration

 Kidist Ibrie Yasin
Toward an Inclusive Landscape of Informal and Formal Giving Behavior: With Voices From Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Indiana (USA)

2023

James Alexander
Rites of the soil: Exploring the ritualized work of a nonprofit community garden

Pat Danahey Janin
Foundation Position and Actions in the Multi-National Arena: A Case Study of Ocean Conservation in the Arctic

Yahya Alzahrani
Professionalism and Its Implications in the Saudi Nonprofit Sector

Meng-Han Ho
Does organizational type matter for clients’ experiences? A comparative study of nonprofit organizations, government organizations, for-profit organizations, and social enterprises

Chen Ji
Social Enterprises’ Resource Acquisition: Bringing Signaling Theory Into Focus

2022

Yongzheng Yang
Economic Inequality and Prosocial Behavior : A Multidimensional Analysis

2021

Jamie L. Goodwin
Cross-Cultural Mutuality: Exploring Philanthropic, Faith-Based Partnerships between Cuba and the United States

Richard S. Clark
Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Case of Evangelicals

Kathryn Dilworth
The social capital fundraising model

Heather A. O’Connor
Reading Between the Lines: Social Contextual Influences on the Production of and Response to Charitable Appeals

2020

Sevda Kilicalp
Managing a Civil Society Organization in Democratic Crisis

2019

Thad Austin
Social Entrepreneurship Among Protestant American Congregations

Marina Harper
Shaping Philanthropy for Chinese Diaspora in Singapore and Beyond: Family, Ancestry, Identity, Social Norms

Suzann Lupton
Local Foundations and Medical Research Support in Indianapolis after 1945

Xiaoyun Wang
Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community Foundations

2018

Christiana Atibil
International Efforts to Promote Local Resource Mobilization for Philanthropy in Africa: Why the Ford Foundation’s Initiatives Failed

Ruth Hansen
The role of stigma in writing charitable appeals

Xiaonan Kou
Empathy and its implications for prosocial behavior and engagement with the arts

Yannan Li
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Social Media Use by Nonprofit Organizations: Towards a Culture of Dialogue

Ji Ma
Networked Civil Society: Three Essays on the Government–Nonprofit Relationship in China

Fady Qaddoura
Philanthropy, policy, and politics: power and influence of health care nonprofit interest groups on the implementation of health care policy

Yuan Tian
Can too much similarity to self backfire? The effects of different levels of similarity on charitable donation

Kim Williams-Pulfer
Get involved: stories of the Caribbean postcolonial black middle class and the development of civil society

2017

Eva Aldrich
Creating fundraising professionals: the development of the certified fund raising executive credential

Matthew Ehlman
Giving and Red Cloud Indian School: fiscal years 2007-2011

Joseph Palus
Family foundations: balancing family and social impact

2016

William Cleveland
Persistence and change in donations received by America’s largest charities

Elizabeth Dale
Giving among same-sex couples: the role of identity, motivations, and charitable decision-making in philanthropic engagement

Van Evans
The civil society of Colombia

Michal Kramarek
Prison ministry workers in Indiana

Heng Qu
Two essays on nonprofit finance

Angela Seaworth
Limited leadership: an examination of Houston nonprofit board diversity and whether selection processes and executive director perceptions of governance models affect composition

2015

Katherine Badertscher
Organized charity and the civic ideal in Indianapolis 1879-1922

Lijun He
What drives change? Examining wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs’ creation of foundations: an institutional entrepreneurship theory perspective

Richard Klopp
The Rhetoric of Philanthropy: Scientific Charity as Moral Language

2014

Tyrone Freeman
Gospel of Giving: The Philanthropy of Madam C.J. Walker, 1867-1919

Nancy Goldfarb
“Charity Never Faileth”: Philanthropy in the Short Fiction of Herman Melville

Brittany Kienker
The Henry Ford: sustaining Henry Ford’s philanthropic legacy

Angela Logan
The Dilemmas of Bringing Your Culture With You: The Career Advancement Challenges of African-American Women Foundation Executive

Sarah Nathan
Women in voluntary service associations: values and meanings

Tamaki Onishi
Institutional influence on the manifestation of entrepreneurial orientation: A case of social investment funders

Shariq Siddiqui
Navigating Identity through Philanthropy: A History of the Islamic Society of North America (1979-2008)

Peter Weber
The Praxis of Civil Society: Associational Life, the Politics of Civility, and Public Affairs in the Weimar Republic

Takayuki Yoshioka
Representational roles of nonprofit organizations in policy advocacy

2013

Jane Chu
Performing arts centers: does uptown culture stimulate downtown vitality?

2012

Julianna Giannoutsou
How to give: Effectiveness of partnership between public and civil society sectors in international humanitarian aid

Marc Hardy
Defining community need through the lens of the elite: a history of the Indianapolis Foundation and its funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1893-1984

Marty Sulek
Gifts of fire: an historical analysis of the Promethean myth for the the light it casts on the philosophical philanthropy of Protagoras, Socrates and Plato; and prolegomena to consideration of the same in Bacon and Nietzsche

2010

Alvin Lyons
The Philanthropic Behavior of Nonprofit Hospitals

2008

Salvatore Alaimo
Program evaluation capacity for nonprofit human services organizations: an analysis of determining factors

Julie Hatcher
The public role of professionals: Developing and evaluating the civic-minded professional scale

Yue Shang
The Effects of Social Information, Social Norms and Social Identity on Giving