11th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference
USC Davidson Conference Center
Los Angeles, CA
Friday, April 25
2:00 – 2:30 Registration
2:30 Welcome: Nicole Esparza ( Club AB)
2:40 – 4:15 Session 1: National Data Sets (Club AB)
Emily Barman (BU) & Heather MacIndoe (UMass-Boston): “Designing A Web-Based Nonprofit
Survey: Lessons Learned from the Boston Area Nonprofit Study”
William Cleveland (IUPUI): “Using Consolidated Data for an Entire Organization Really Matters:
Findings from the Philanthropy 400”
Laurie Paarlberg & Stijn Van Puyvelde (A&M): “Constructing a multi-level dataset: Local United
Way systems”
Jon Durnford (Urban Institute/DataLake): “Working with Big Data: Breaking News from NCCS and the IRS”
Chair: David Suárez (UW)
4:15 – 4:30 Break
4:30 – 6:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 2: Public Perceptions of Nonprofits (Club AB)
Richard D. Waters (USF): “What do Stakeholders “Like” on Facebook? Examining Public
Reactions to Nonprofit Organizations’ Informational, Promotional, and Community-Building
Messages”
Laura Deitrick, Jennifer A. Jones, & Svetlana Krasynska (USD): “The Nonprofit Sector: To What
End?”
Robert Donmoyer, Nancy Batterman, Anna Leskinen, & Christina Mitchell (USD): “So, How Do
We Bridge the Research/Practice Gap? Reflections on an Unusual Collaborative Action Research
Project”
Kellie McGiverin-Bohan, Lauren Dula, Kirsten Grønbjerg, & Rachel Miller (SPEA): “Local
Government Officials’ Attitudes Toward PILOTs and SILOTs”

Chair: John Ronquillo (DePaul)
4:30 – 6:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 3: Organizational Populations (Alumni AB)
Yusun Cho & Nicole Esparza (USC): “A New Type of Management: The Rise of Specialist and
Generalist Nonprofit Management Support Organizations”
Katie Hoegeman (MSU): “Informal Clustering of Catholic Parishes”
Suyeon Jo & William A. Brown (A&M): “Factors that Support Nonprofit Performance: Findings from Interviews with Managers”
Lauren Willner (UCLA): “Managerialism in Social Justice Nonprofit Organizations: An
Exploratory Study on the Effects of Organizational Size on Managerialist Behaviors and
Practices”
Chair: (ASU)
6:30 Reception and Dinner
Sol Price School of Public Policy RGL 308
Welcome Remarks: Jack H. Knott, C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and Professor
Joseph Galaskiewicz (UA) Keith Provan: Remarks on a Lifetime of Contributions
Saturday, April 26
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 4: Creating New Indexes & Measurements (Club AB)
Mark Hager (ASU): “Crowdsourcing Index Weights”
Joaquin Herranz Jr (UW): “Quadruple Bottom Line Performance Accounting for Nonprofits”
John Wagner (UNLV): “Socio-Cognitive Mapping in the Nonprofit Sector: An examination of methodological approaches to identify and describe Socio-Cognitive sensitivities in mapped and unmapped Nonprofit-Organizational Networks”
Chair: Emily Barman (BU)

8:30 – 10:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5: Volunteerism, Citizenship, and Global-Mindedness (Alumni AB)
Sue Carter Kahl (USD): “Exploring the Intersection of Volunteer Supply and Organizational
Demand in California”
Hui Li (USC): “How do Voluntary Organizations Foster Political Participation? Examining the
Role of Organizational Involvement”
Michael Thier (UO) & Emily Aime Witty (Yeshiva): “Linking Mindset to Global-Mindedness
Among Jewish Modern-Orthodox Pre-Service Educators”
Wenjuan Zheng (CUNY): “Nonprofit Organizations in China: Framing the Organization’s
Goals”
Chair: Jessica Word (UNLV)
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:45 Session 6: Big Data & Social Innovation ( Club AB)
Alexandra Graddy-Reed & Maryann Feldman (UNC-Chapel Hill): “Stepping Up: An empirical analysis of the use of social innovation in response to the economic recession”
John Ronquillo (DePaul): “Conceptualizing a Model for Organizational Innovation in Nonprofit
Organizations”
Edward T. Walker (UCLA), Bogdan Vasi (Iowa), John Johnson (Harmony), & Sarah Tan
(Columbia): “Mobilization and Outcomes of Anti-Fracking Activism: Using Social Media and
Search Data to Understand an Emerging Movement”
Chair: Nicole Esparza (USC)
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 7: Foundations and Giving ( Club AB)
Sondra Barringer, Lindsay Coco, Sheila Slaughter, & Barrett J. Taylor (UGA): “The role of public foundations in higher education: Connecting universities, foundations, and firms using
“quantitative” networks”
Jasmine McGinnis Johnson (GW): “The Benefits and Costs of Variation in Board Governance on Public Foundations”
Kim D. Hunt & Jennifer A. Jones (USD): “Smooth(er) Sailing Ahead? The Perceived Financial
Health of Nonprofits in California”

Chair: Laurie Paarlberg (A&M)
12:45 – 2:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 8: Finance and Market Reponses (Alumni AB)
Elizabeth Castillo (USD): “Putting the Map in Motion: A Typology of Capitals and Their
Activating Processes”
Sara Pilgreen (UCLA): “What Is the Experience of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in
High-Poverty Neighborhoods? A Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship in Watts”
Stijn Van Puyvelde & William A. Brown (A&M): “Determinants of nonprofit sector size:
Evidence from Texas”
Chair: Robert Ashcraft (ASU)
2:00 – 3:15 Session 9: Policy & Contextual Changes in the Sector ( Club AB)
Eve Garrow (UMich): “Legislative Advocacy for Vulnerable Children in a Neoliberal Era”
Youngmi Lee (USC) & David F. Suárez (UW): “The Expansion of Nonprofit Management
Education: Higher Education Programs and Research Centers, 1971-2011”
Lili Wang & Ting Zhao (ASU): “Public Policies, Stakeholder Interests and NGO Development
In Emerging Economies: The Case of Trade Associations in Shanghai, China”
Chair: Will Brown (A&M)
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:15 Session 10: Roundtable on Research Centers
Robert Ashcraft (ASU): Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation
Laura Deitrick (USD): Caster Family Center for Nonprofit Research School of Leadership and
Education Sciences
Nicole Esparza (USC): The Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy
Jessica Word & John Wagner (UNLV): Nonprofit, Community and Leadership Center
4:15 Closing remarks : Joseph Galaskiewicz (UA) & Zeke Hasenfeld (UCLA)