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Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
Professor
Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1974
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Kirsten A. Grønbjerg holds the Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy
at the Center on Philanthropy and is Professor of Public and Environmental
Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington, Professor of Philanthropic
Studies at Indiana University, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology
at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has held faculty appointments
at Loyola University, Chicago (where she also served as chair of the
Department of Sociology-Anthropology), the State University of New
York at Stony Brook, and Hofstra University. A native of Denmark,
she earned an undergraduate degree in sociology at Pitzer College
in Claremont, CA, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in sociology at the University
of Chicago.
Her research focuses on the nonprofit sector broadly defined—its
structure and composition, the sector's funding relationships (especially
with government, philanthropic, and other institutional funders),
its management challenges, and its community dimensions. She has paid
particular attention to nonprofits in the fields of human services
and community development and to a range of methodological issues
associated with generating systematic information on the sector. Her
current research focuses on the scope and community dimensions of
the Indiana nonprofit
sector. She is the author of a number of books, articles, and
reports on the nonprofit sector, nonprofit funding relations, and
American welfare policies.
She is a member of a number of research committees on philanthropy,
nonprofit organizations, social policy, and needs assessment, including
the National Committee for Charitable Statistics. She is the incoming
chair of the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management
and is Past Co-president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). She is also active in
a number of human service organizations and has served on the Board
of United Way of Chicago as coordinating chairperson for needs assessment
in human capital development, family life, community development,
health, and discrimination for the Chicago area.
Awards Full
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Selected Publications
2007
“Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2007” a report by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Andrea Lewis and Pauline
Campbell. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm.
“Nonprofit Capacity Assessment: Indiana Charities, 2007.” Nonprofit Capacity Assessment
Survey Series, Report #1, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Laney Cheney with the Assistance
of Scott Leadingham and Helen Liu. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and
Environmental Affairs. http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npcapacity/charitycapacityassessment.html.
“Infrastructure and Activities: Relating IT to the Work of Nonprofit
Organizations” by Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg.
Pp. 3-20 in Nonprofits and Technology, edited by Michael
Cortés and Kevin Rafter. Chicago: Lyceum Press.
“Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations: Their Characteristics and
Activities” by Curtis D. Child and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg.
Social Science Quarterly 88 (No. 1, March): 259-81.
“The Capacities and Challenges of Faith-Based Human Service
Organizations” by Richard Clerkin and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg.
Public Administration Review 67 (No. 1, January – February):
115-126.
2006
“Foundation Legitimacy at the Community Level: The Case of Community
Foundations in the U.S.” Pp. 150-74 in Foundations and the
Challenge of Legitimacy in Comparative Perspective, edited by
Kenneth Prewitt, Mattei Dogan, Steven Heydemann, and Stefan Toepler.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
“Scope and Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations” by
Steven Rathgeb Smith and Kirsten A. Grønbjerg. Pp. 221-42 in
The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd Edition, edited
by Walter W. Powell and Richard S. Steinberg. New Haven: Yale University
Press.
Indiana Nonprofits: A Portrait of Religious Nonprofits and Secular
Charities by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Patricia Borntrager
Tennen, Curtis Child, and Richard Clerkin. Bloomington, IN: School
of Public and Environmental Affairs. June. Available online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insfaithbased.html.
2005
Indiana Nonprofits: A Profile of Membership Organizations
by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington,
IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. October. Available
online at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insmember.html.
“Examining the Landscape of Indiana's Nonprofit Sector: Does
What You See Depend on Where You Look?” by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
and Richard M. Clerkin. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
34 (No. 2, June): 232-259.
Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2005 Report, by Kirsten A.
Grønbjerg and Erich T. Eschmann. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, May. Available online
at http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/inemploy/indianaempl05.pdf.
2004
Indiana Nonprofits: Affiliations, Collaborations and Competition
by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Bloomington, IN:
School of Public and Environmental Affairs. November. Available online
at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insaffil.html.
“Philanthropy and the Human Services.” In The Encyclopedia
of Philanthropy, edited by Dwight Burlingame. ABC-CLIO Press.
Indiana Nonprofits: Managing Financial and Human Resources
by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard M. Clerkin. Bloomington,
IN: School of Public and Environmental Affairs. August. Available
online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insmanag.html.
Indiana Nonprofits: Impact of Community and Policy Changes
by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. Bloomington, IN:
School of Public and Environmental Affairs. June. Available online
at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/inscom.html
“Role of Religious Networks and Other Factors in Different Types
of Volunteer Work” by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Brent
Never. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 14 (No. 3, Spring):
263-290.
The Indiana Nonprofit Sector: A Profile by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
and Linda Allen. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental
Affairs. February. Available online at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/insprofile.html
2003
“Nonprofit Management Education: Taking Advantage of the Public
Administration Setting” by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg &
Elizabethann O'Sullivan. Journal of Public Affairs Education
9 (No. 3, July): 165-168.
Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2001 by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
& Hun Myoung Park. Bloomington, IN: School of Public and Environmental
Affairs. July. Available online at
www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/innonprofitemploy.htm. Excerpted
as “Study Explores Economic Impact of Indiana Nonprofits”
in Indiana Business Review 78 (No. 2, Summer 2003):7-8, and
as “Study Finds Nonprofits is a Major Economic Force for Indiana”
in INContext 4 (No. 4, July-August):4; both available online
at www.ibrc.indiana.edu.
The Indianapolis Nonprofit Sector: Management Capacities and Challenges
by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Richard Clerkin. Bloomington, IN:
School of Public and Environmental Affairs. February. Available online
at www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/npsurvey/indymanag.html.
2002
“Extent and Nature of Overlap Between Listings of IRS Tax-Exempt
Registration and Nonprofit Incorporation: The Case of Indiana”
by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg & Laurie Paarlberg, Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 31 (No. 4, December): 565-594.
“Evaluating Nonprofit Databases,” American Behavioral
Scientist 45 (11, July): 1742-1778.