Public Affairs Faculty

Beth Gazley Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004

Beth Gazley teaches nonprofit, public, and human resources management at SPEA. Her research addresses aspects of voluntarism and volunteer management, inter-sectoral relations and collaboration.

Currently, Professor Gazley is involved in research projects that examine the role of voluntary organizations in emergency planning, the capacity of community organizations to involve student service-learners, and collaborative motivations and collaborative capacity in intersectoral partnerships. She is also working with the American Society of Association Executives on a national study of association volunteers.

Professor Gazley has received recognition from the Academy of Management and ARNOVA for her research, and was a 2007 recipient of a SPEA Trustee Teaching Award. Before entering academia, she served more than 15 years in the nonprofit sector as a fundraiser and management consultant. She currently serves as Vice President of the board of directors of Stone Belt Arc, Inc.

Awards

Publications

Gazley, Beth and Monica Dignam.  Decision to Volunteer. Washington, DC:  American Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership (forthcoming 2008).

Gazley, Beth. “Personnel Recruitment and Retention in the Nonprofit Sector:  The 21st Century Challenge,” in Hays, Kearney, and Coggburn (Eds.), Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects, 5th edition. Prentice-Hall (forthcoming 2008).

Gazley, Beth. “Inter-Sectoral Collaboration and the Motivation to Collaborate: Toward an Integrated Theory,” in R. O’Leary and L.B. Bingham (Eds). Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. (forthcoming 2008).

Bingham, Lisa Blomgren, Beth Gazley, Michael McGuire and Rosemary O’Leary. “Chapter One: The Collaborative Public Manager,” in L.B. Bingham and R.O’Leary (Eds.) The Collaborative Public Manager. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. (forthcoming 2008).

Gazley, Beth and Laura Littlepage.  “Understanding Service-learning from a Volunteer Management Capacity Perspective.”  In M. Moore and P. Lan (Eds.) Service-Learning in Higher Education: Paradigms and Challenges.  Indianapolis:University of Indianapolis Press.   (forthcoming 2008).

Gazley, Beth. (2008). “Beyond the contract:  The scope and nature of informal government-nonprofit partnerships.” Public Administration Review, 68(1):141-154.  

Gazley, Beth, Laura Littlepage and Christina Myers.  (2007).  Volunteer management capacity and student service-learners: A study of Indiana community agencies.  Indianapolis: Center for Urban Policy and the Environment.

Gazley, Beth and Brudney, Jeffrey L. (2007).“The purpose (and perils) of government-nonprofit partnership.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36(3): 389-415.

Beth Gazley, Won Kyung Chang, and Lisa Blomgren Bingham. (2006). “Collaboration and citizen participation in community mediation centers.”  Review of Policy Research, 23(4): 843-863.

Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2006). “Moving ahead or falling behind? Volunteer promotion and data collection.” Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 16(3): 259-276.

Gazley, Beth. (2005). “Conclusion: Toward the Future of Volunteering,” in Jeffrey L. Brudney (Ed.), Emerging Areas of Volunteering, ARNOVA occasional paper series.

Gazley, Beth and Jeffrey L. Brudney. (2005). “Volunteer involvement in local government post-9/11 and the continuing question of capacity.” Public Administration Review, 65(2): 131-142.

Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2003). “Federal volunteerism policy and the states: An analysis of Citizen Corps,” in Chi, Keon S. (Ed.), The Book of the States. Lexington, KY: The Council of State Governments. Pp. 516-522.

Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2002). “Testing the conventional wisdom on volunteer programs: A longitudinal analysis of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) and the U.S. Small Business Administration.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 31(4): 525-548.

Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2002). “Implementation of the USA Freedom Corps at the state and local level: An early assessment.” Spectrum: The Journal of State Government, 75(4): 34-38.

Gazley, Beth. (2001). “Volunteer vacationers: What can research tell us about them?”
E-Volunteerism, 1(2). On the World Wide Web at www.evolunteerism.com.