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The following IUB faculty/staff gave presentations at the Nonprofit Toolkit Symposium at City Hall in Bloomington on November 3-4:

• Kirsten Grønbjerg presented “Fundamentals of Fundraising”
• Beth Gazley presented “Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation”
• Terry Usrey presented “Technology for Nonprofits”
• Bill Hodson presented “Human Resource Management”
• Lisa-Marie Napoli presented “Conflict/Dispute Resolution for Nonprofits
• Bill McGregor presented “Strategy and the Nonprofit: How to get there from here”
• Les Lenkowsky presented “Volunteer Management”

SPEA faculty, doctoral students, and including alumni of the doctoral programs in public affairs and public policy presented 11 papers at the 28th Annual Research Conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) meetings in Madison, Wis., November 2-4, 2006:

Student Papers

• Fiscal Institutions and State Government Expenditures Volatility: An Econometric Analysis, Sharon Kioko, IUB
• Effects of Workforce Investment Act Implementation on Employment Growth: Economic & Job Training Impacts, Carletta Taylor, IUB
• Same Ol’ Jail House Promises: The Effects of Type of Crime Committed on Father-Child Relationships, Edward Vargas, IUB

• Evaluating the Performance of Voluntary CO2 Emissions Control in the United States: An Analysis of the Climate Challenge Program, David Good, Kyoungsun Heo, and Kerry Krutilla, all IUB
• Evaluation of the Education Sector Enhancement Program in Barbados, Sharon Kioko and Maureen Pirog, IUB
• Social Networks, Work and Welfare Among Single Mothers in Poverty, Helen Liu and David Reingold, IUB
• Do Mandatory School Service Requirements Increase Youth Civic Participation: Evidence from the Current Population Survey? Becky Nesbit and David Reingold, IUB

Faculty Papers

• Congressional Policy Preferences for Fiscal Responsibility, Evan Ringquist and Christine Schwen, IUB
• Scientific Agency Priority Setting: Comparing NIH and FDA Responses to Women’s Health Advocacy, Nicole Quon, IUB

Alumni

• Learning from Experience and Managing the Transaction Costs of Internal and Contract Service Delivery, Trevor Brown (Ohio State University), Matthew Potoski (Iowa State University), David Van Slyke (Syracuse University)
• Budget Constraints, Philanthropic Response, and Public Value Failure in San Francisco Bay Area K-12 Education, Sheldon Gen and Laurie Paarlberg (San Francisco State University)

Sergio Fernandez and Lois R. Wise, IUB, presented “Adoption of H-1B Visas among Texas Public School Districts: An Empirical Analysis of Organizational Innovation” and Lois Wise presented “The Impact of Globalization on Civil Service Systems” at the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) annual meeting in Minneapolis on October 2006.

Burney Fischer, IUB, made the closing presentation "Can't See the Forest For The Trees: Dilemmas for Woodland Owners" at the Indiana Forestry and Woodland Owners Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ind., on November 4.

“Indiana Nonprofit Employment” by Kirsten Grønbjerg, IUB, and Kerry S. Brock (SPEA MPA alumnae) was presented to the Indianapolis Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals on October 18. The presentation was given by Kerry Brock with the assistance of Andrea Lewis (SPEA MPA student).

Les Lenkowsky, IUB and IUPUI, gave a “Midterm Election Talk” at Hutton Honors College Community in McNutt on November 6, and presented “How Sick is America’s Civic Health?” at the Town and Gown Conversations Series at Ball State University in Muncie on November 8.

Michael Rushton, IUB, presented "The Creative Class and Urban Economic Growth Revisited" at the conference Drawing the Lines: International Perspectives on Urban Renewal through the Arts, held at Indiana University Northwest in Gary on November 3. Michael was also an invited panelist at a conference on The Creative Campus, held at Vanderbilt University on November 9-11. He was part of a working group on the economic consequences of sustaining, training, and presenting the arts at universities and colleges.