Baorong Guo's Web Page



Baorong Guo,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri-St. Louis
School of Social Work590 Lucas Hall
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
Telephone: (314) 516-6618
Fax: (314) 516-5816
Email: guob@umsl.edu
Web: http://www.umsl.edu/~guob/


Teaching      Work in progress
  • Key Words
        Human service nonprofits, welfare polily & social development, research methods
  • Education
       Ph.D., Washington University George Warren Brown School of Social Work, 2005
        M.A., Peking University, Department of Sociology, 2000
        B.A., China Youth University for Political Sciences, 1997
  • Background
Baorong Guo received her Ph.D. from Washington University George Warren Brown School of Social Work in 2005. Her advisor at Washington University was David Gillespie. Her dissertation "Marketization of Human Service Nonprofits: Charity at Risk?" examined the impact of the shift of funding streams on human service nonprofit organizations. She joined the faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Social Work in fall 2005. The two courses she currently is teaching are American welfare policy and research methods for social work.
  • Teaching
       UM-St. Louis       
        Instructor, Social Issues and Social Policy development
        Instructor, Social Work Research Methods and Analysis (I)
       
Washington University
Lab instructor, Multivariate Statistics (doctoral level), spring 2004
Lab instructor, Structural Equation Modeling (doctoral level), fall 2003
Teaching assistant, Seminar in Social Work Theory (doctoral level), fall 2003
  • Research
Faculty associate, Center for Social Development, Washington University, 2005-present.

Faculty associate, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, September 2005-present.

Research coordinator, "Welfare Reform on American Indian Reservations (Welfare to Work)" project; Washington University, 2001-2005.
  • Publications
Pandey, S. & Guo, B. (Revise and resubmit). A longitudinal analysis of welfare exit among American Indian families. Social Work Research.

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. 
Guo, B. (2005). Commercialization of social services: Toward an understanding of nonprofits in relation to for-profits and government. International Society for the Third Sector Research (ISTR) Conference Proceedings.

Guo, B., Bricout, J. C., & Huang, J. (2005). A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China. Disability and Society, 20(1), 49-66.

Huang, J. & Guo, B., (2005). Building social capital: A study of the online disability community. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(2).
  • Conference Presentations
Guo, B. (2006). The Marketization of human service nonprofits: Charity at risk? The 10th Annual Conference of  the Society for Social Work Research (SSWR), San Antonio, TX, January 12-15.

Pandey, S. & Guo, B. (2005). A longitudinal analysis of impact of 1996 welfare reform onfamilies with children on reservations, 27th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington D.C., November 3-5.

Guo, B. (2005). The Marketization of human service nonprofits: Charity at risk? 27th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Washington D.C., November 3-5.
  • Funding
        "Effects of Household Assets on Material Hardships among Welfare Leavers", $7,765, University of
         Missouri-St. Louis, 2006.

     
  "Food Insecurity and Household Assets in Low-income Families", UM Research Board, 2006 
  • Fellowships/Honors
Dissertation Scholarship, Washington University, 2005
Emerging Scholar Award, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), 2004
Journal of Social Service Research Fellowship, Washington University, 2002-2003
Younghusband Fellowship, Washington University, 2000-2002
Xinchuan Fellowship, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1999
  • Ph.D. Thesis (2005)

"The Marketization of Human Service Nonprofits: Charity at Risk?"

In order to adapt to the changing funding environment, many human service nonprofits are becoming increasingly involved with selling services and other commercial activities. The commercialization of human service nonprofits has caused considerable concern about the future of the charitable cause in the United States. This dissertation aims to understand this phenomenon with a focus on examining factors associated with the marketization of human service nonprofits and the long-term trends of marketization. Based on a review of empirical and theoretical literature, a conceptual model is constructed to understand the commercial behavior of human service nonprofits. Path analyses are conducted to test the conceptual model, using data collected from a sample of 67 human service nonprofits operating ventures. This study further extrapolates from the findings from the path model to develop system dynamics models representing the marketization of human service nonprofits. This theoretical approach expands our understanding of this trend and serves as a foundation for further empirical study in this field. The results have implications for future research on market practices of human service nonprofits and for public policy to promote the healthy development of nonprofits to meet the public interest.

    
时复思绎,浃洽于中,则说也。- 朱熹