NPM&L Faculty and Research
DEBORAH BALSER, PhD, associate professor, business administration, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Balser, Deborah B. and John McClusky. 2005. "Managing Stakeholder Relationships and Nonprofit Organization Effectiveness." Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 15(3): 295-315.
Carmin, JoAnn and Deborah Balser. 2002. "Selecting Repertoires of Action in Environmental Movement Organizations: An Interpretive Approach." Organization & Environment, 15: 365-388.
Balser, Deborah B. 1997. "Impact of Environmental Factors on Factionalism and Schism in Social Movement Organizations." Social Forces, 76: 199-228.
RICHARD GOLDBAUM, PhD has more than forty years experience working in the nonprofit sector including 25 years as executive director for two nonprofit organizations. In 1997 he started consulting with nonprofits and in 1999 he formed his firm Transitions In Leadership, LLC, which specializes in working with nonprofit organizations at the time of executive transition by providing interim management services, organizational assessment, executive searches, new and experienced executive coaching and strategic planning. Dick is a co-author with Carol E. Weisman of a book on executive transition, Losing Your Executive Director Without Losing Your Way, Jossey-Base, 2004.
BAORONG GUO, PhD, assistant professor, social work, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Guo, B. (2006). Charity for profit? Exploring factors associated with the commercialization of human service nonprofits. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35(1), 123-138.
[review article] Snibbe, A. C. (2006). What profits do for nonprofits. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 4(2), 19.
MICHAEL HARRIS, PhD, is professor of management at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Fellow in the Center for International Studies and the International Business Institute. In 2007, he won the prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award. Dr. Harris regularly teaches courses in Human Resource Management, including hiring, compensation, and training. He has also served as a trainer for twenty years in areas such as hiring and firing, employment law, “train-the-trainer” and diversity management with a wide variety of private sector, public sector, and nonprofit organizations, including Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis Science Center, and the City of St. Peters.
E. TERRENCE JONES, PhD, is a professor in Public Policy Administration and Political Science at UM-St. Louis. He has served as a consultant to more than 50 governmental and nonprofit agencies throughout the St. Louis region. His latest book is The Metropolitan Chase (Prentice Hall, 2002), an analysis of the competition within and between metropolitan areas in the United States.
JOHN "JACK" KERBER , CFRE, is managing consultant of Skystone Ryan consulting firm. Previously, he was director of civic affairs and development for the Muny. He also served as the director of development for Bethesda General Hospital and Homes in St. Louis. He is a former president of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE), St. Louis Chapter, and received its 1996 Outstanding Fund Raising Executive Award.
NANCY KINNEY, PhD, is an associate professor in Public Policy Adminstration and Political Science at UM-St. Louis. She specializes in policy research on issues related to the utilization of nonprofits in the privatization of human services. She has a particular research interest in the policy innovation known as “charitable choice.” In addition, she has examined the role of nonprofit organizations in civic engagement, particularly in the policy formulation process. She has an extensive employment history in nonprofits as well as involvement in board governance. Her recent research includes:
Kinney, N.T. & Carver, M.L. (2006). Urban congregations as incubators of service organizations. Anticipated, Vol. 18:1 (Fall 2007) in Nonprofit Management & Leadership.
Kinney, N. T. & Winter, W. (2006). Places of worship and neighborhood stability. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28:4, 335-352.
Kinney, N. T. (2006). Toppling Jefferson ’s wall or tiptoeing around it? Evaluating the implementation of faith-friendly welfare policy. Administration & Society, 38:1 (March), 3-30.
Kinney, N. T. (2005). The impact of restrictive immigration policies on political empowerment: ethnic organization persistence in early 20th Century St. Louis. Citizenship Studies, 9:1 (February), 59-72.
Kinney, N. T. (2003). Essential websites about the nonprofit sector. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 9:3(July), 221-224.
Cheever, K., Kinney, N. T. & Wolfe, P. (2000). Improving the quality of public administration research on nonprofits: Dismantling the three-sector model. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, 3:3-4, 319-344.
JOHN E. McCLUSKY, PhD, is an affiliate associate professor of Public Policy Administration and Political Science and the director of the Nonprofit Management & Leadership Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and consultant and trainer to numerous nonprofit organizations, locally and nationally. Dr. McClusky has held nonprofit organization executive positions for more than 20 years, including chief executive of the St. Louis Center, national president of the Coro Foundation, vice chancellor for external relations at UM-St. Louis, and academic vice president of the Washington Center in Washington, D.C. His recent research includes:
A Study of Congregational Capacity for Sustaining Community Outreach. Lutheran Foundation, 15 pp. (January, 2006).
McClusky, John E., PhD & Dolch, Norman, PhD (2006). “Nonprofit Undergraduate Education: Models of Curriculum Delivery,” Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, forthcoming.
Balser, Deborah B. and John McClusky. 2005. "Managing Stakeholder Relationships and Nonprofit Organization Effectiveness." Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 15(3): 295-315.
HAROLD A. MELSER, FAHP, is associate vice president of Development for the St. Louis Science Center. Previously, he served as director of planned giving, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation, and serves on the faculty of the Fund Raising School at Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy. He is a past president of the St. Louis Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and was named the 1986 Outstanding Fundraising Executive of that chapter.
JUDITH E. MURPHY, CPA, is partner and director, Nonprofit Division, at RubinBrown LLP. She primarily serves not-for-profit clients and provides audit, tax, and consulting services. Murphy is a licensed certified public accountant, and her expertise includes benefit consulting and administration and taxation.
GLENDA J. O'NEAL, president of Grants Unlimited, a national grants consulting firm, began her career in grants development more than 20 years ago as a consultant to community organizations and governmental agencies developing services for the elderly. She has served as a reviewer of grants for the federal Older Americans Act and private health foundation funds, and as a writer and developer of federal grants. She is a nationally renowned grant proposal trainer.
PETER H. RUGER, JD, is currently an attorney at the law firm Tueth, Keeney, Cooper, Mohan, & Jackstadt, P.C. He practices in the areas of higher education, nonprofit organizations, health, alternative dispute resolution, and labor and employment law. He is also an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University School of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Law, and UM-St. Louis.
PATRICIA RICH , ACFRE, is a principal in EMD Consulting Group. She has consulted throughout the country and overseas on fundraising, planning, membership and nonprofit management issues. She is one of 70 ACFREs in the country - the highest accreditation in the fundraising profession. She was formerly the president of the Arts and Education Council and prior to that she was director of planning and development at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In these positions she has had responsibility for all phases of fundraising (annual campaign, major gifts, capital campaigns, proposals, corporate and foundation relations, planned giving, special events), strategic planning and nonprofit management.
MARGARET SHERRARD SHERRADEN, PhD, Professor of Social Work at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Research Professor at the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis
Sherraden, Margaret Sherrard, Stringham, John, Sow, Simona Costanzo & McBride, Amanda Moore. 2006. The Forms and Structure of International Voluntary Service. Voluntas (2006), 17:163-180.
MICHAEL J. STEVENS, PhD, assistant professor, College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, consults widely with organizations in the business and not-for-profit sectors. His primary areas of expertise include improving organizational performance through empowerment and teamwork, individual assessment and selection, executive coaching and leadership development, and interpersonal effectiveness in the workplace.
MARY S. TUCKER, JD, is a business attorney in the St. Louis headquarters of Wachovia Securities, an investment services company. Her legal experience spans corporate and nonprofit organizations in a variety of industries. She served on the board of Utah Legal Services for 10 years and is currently on the board of Citizens for Missouri's Children.