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The following IUB faculty gave presentations at the ARNOVA meeting in Chicago on November 16-18:

Papers

• Board Diversity and Organizational Effectiveness in Community Mediation Centers, by Beth Gazley, Won Kyung Chang, Lisa Blomgren Bingham
• The Impact of Service Learning on Host Organizations by Beth Gazley and Laura Littlepage (IUPUI)
• The Changing Role of Economic Analysis in Arts Advocacy by Michael Rushton
• Nonprofit Strategy in Competitive Market Places: The Case of Charitable Bingo by Richard Clerkin (SPEA Ph.D student), Laurie Paarlberg (SPEA Ph.D.), San Francisco State University, Robert K. Christensen (SPEA Ph.D. student) and Becky Nesbit (SPEA Ph.D. student)
• Prevailing and Promised Wages: What Visa Applications Can Tell Us About Wage Patterns in the Nonprofit Sector by Mary Tschirhart, Syracuse University and Lois R. Wise
• Capacity and Performance: What’s Capacity Got To Do With It? by Robert K. Christensen and Beth Gazley
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Capacity Measures and Frameworks in Public and Nonprofit Performance Evaluation by Robert K. Christensen, Helen Kang-huey Liu, Stephanie Moulton, Becky Nesbit, Eva Witesman (all SPEA Ph.D. Students)
• Government Financing of Nonprofit Social Services by Stephanie Moulton
• Local Government Contracting and the Nonprofit: Trust, Capacity, Selection and Performance by Eva Witesman and Sergio Fernandez
• Do States Civic Education Policies Increase Youth Volunteering? by Becky Nesbit and David Reingold
• Nonprofits in Context: An Analysis of Region-level Influences on Nonprofit Organizations by Curtis D. Child (SPEA MPA alum), Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, and Hun Myoung Park (SPEA Ph.D. student)

Panel Chairs:

• The Community Impact of Service Learning (Panel): Chair: Beth Gazley
• Linking Nonprofit Capacity and Performance, Chair: Beth Gazley

The following IUPUI faculty gave presentations at the ARNOVA meeting in Chicago on November 16-18:

Paper

• Development of a National Volunteer Index by Laura Littlepage, James Perry and Ted Miller
• Informal Giving and Volunteering in the U.S. by Debra Mesch and Patrick Rooney (Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University)

• Growth in Nonprofit Organizations: Why and How? Chair: Wolfgang Bielefeld

Matt Auer, IUB, was an invited speaker for a joint meeting of the University of Tokyo's Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science and Japan Society for Institutional Development on November 24. He presented "How to Advance Sustainable Development: Prescribe More Aid or Demand Better Institutions (or Both)?"

Chris Craft, IUB, presented a talk entitled "The Role of Midwestern Wetlands in a Water Quality Trading Program" at the 2006 international annual meetings of the Soil Science Society of America on November 12-16 in Indianapolis, IN.

Jim Perry, IUPUI, delivered a keynote address to the 1st Symposium on Services Management at the School of Management, Curtin Business School, in Perth, Australia on November 14. His keynote was entitled, “Between Hero and Mad Hatter: The Quest for Governance and Accountability in the Global Public Management Revolution.” Jim also gave seminars on “Radically Rethinking How We Motivate Public Servants” at three universities during his trip to Australia. On November 15, he gave the Executive Dean’s Seminar at Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, in Perth. He gave another seminar at Murdoch University in Perth on November 16. The final seminar was sponsored by Canberra University, School of Business and Government, on November 17.

Todd Royer, IUB, attended an EPA-sponsored symposium on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and delivered an invited paper entitled, "Do in-stream transformations affect nitrogen loading to the Mississippi River?" The symposium was held November 7th-9th in Minneapolis, MN.

Michael Rushton, IUB, presented "Why are Nonprofits Exempt from the Corporate Income Tax?" at The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, December 1.