Dr. Jeffrey L. Brudney is the Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the
premiere international journal in nonprofit sector studies. He serves on the Expert Advisory
Board of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program on the State Of The World’s
Volunteerism Report. He was also invited to the White House to hear President Bush’s
“Remarks on Volunteering.”
Dr. Brudney has received numerous awards for scholarship and service. He is the 2015 recipient
of the Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action
Research (formerly called the Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement), given by the
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). His
article, “Toward a Definition of the Coproduction Concept,” published in Public Administration
Review, was selected as one of the 75 most influential articles appearing in this top-ranked
journal since its inception in 1940. He has been a Fulbright-Kahanoff Scholar at York
University (Toronto, Canada) in the Voluntary Sector Management Program.
Dr. Brudney has received the Mentor Award of the Women’s Caucus of the American Political
Science Association for “Exceptional Guidance of Women Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
Members in Political Science.” He has also received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from
ARNOVA, and the Harriet Naylor Distinguished Member Service Award from the Association
for Volunteer Administration
Dr. Brudney is the author of Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector: Planning,
Initiating, and Managing Voluntary Activities, for which he received the John Grenzebach
Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Education. He is the author of many other
publications, including Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration, now in its
ninth edition, which has been used for instruction in more than 120 colleges and universities.
In 2015 Dr. Brudney received the Burt Gummer Award for outstanding article published in the
journal Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, and in 2013 the
Editors’ Prize for Best Scholarly Article published in Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
He has also received the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the Best Article
Written by an Academician published in Public Administration Review; the Academy of
Management Public and Nonprofit Division Best Article Award; and the Herbert Kaufman
Award for Best Paper in Public Administration presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association (four times). Dr. Brudney’s research has been used by both the
Points of Light Institute and the Corporation for National and Community Service, the two
leading U.S. government agencies on volunteering and service.