Rikki Abzug is a professor and convener of management at the Anisfield School of Business, Ramapo College of New Jersey. A researcher of organizational governance, sector theory, social purpose organizations, and neo-institutionalism in organizations, Dr. Abzug is co-author (with Jeffrey Simonoff) of Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts and (with Mary Watson) Human Resources in Social Purpose Organizations, as well as the author or co-author of a myriad of scholarly peer-reviewed articles in journals, including Organization Science, The Academy of Management Journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations. Dr. Abzug has been a management and market research consultant and has also provided consulting services in nonprofit and board development to management groups in the United States, Poland, and the Ukraine. She served on the Board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), was a founding leadership council member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance (now, Governance Matters), and has been active in a variety of other professional and trade associations. Before joining the faculty of Ramapo, Dr. Abzug was the chair of the Nonprofit Management Program at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Prior to her work at the New School, Dr. Abzug was the associate director of Yale University's Program on Nonprofit Organizations and a faculty member at New York University's Stern School of Business.

James E. Austin is the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and co-founder of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School. He is one of the pioneering researchers and authors in the field of nonprofit-business alliances and the author of the award-winning books The Collaboration Challenge and, with M. May Seitanidi, Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations. Austin has provided advisory services to private companies, governments, international development agencies, educational institutions, and nongovernmental organizations, and has served as a special advisor to the White House.

Marcia A. Avner teaches in the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership Program (MAPL) at Metropolitan State University. Avner is a consultant whose practice, Avner Advocacy, includes strategy design, training, curriculum development, and facilitation. She works with nonprofits, foundations, and academic centers on initiatives to advance public policies and civic engagement. Avner also serves as a senior fellow at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, where she was public policy director from 1996 to 2010. Her career includes service as the deputy mayor of St Paul, Minnesota, the assistant commissioner for Energy in Minnesota, and communications director for a U.S. Senator. The unifying thread in Avner's work is the commitment to advancing advocacy in the nonprofit sector and the broader community. Avner has authored The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations: Shaping Public Policy at the State and Local Level (2nd ed., 2013) and The Board Member's Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy (2004).

Jeanne Bell, MNA, is executive director at CompassPoint (www.compasspoint.org)—a national nonprofit leadership and strategy practice based in Oakland, California. She is the co-author of The Sustainability Mindset: Using the Matrix Map to Make Strategic Decisions (Jossey-Bass). In addition to frequent speaking and consulting on nonprofit strategy and finance, Bell has conducted a number of research projects on nonprofit leadership over the past ten years including, most recently, UnderDeveloped: A National Study of the Challenges Facing Nonprofit Fundraising. She serves on the boards of The Nonprofit Quarterly and Intersection for the Arts.

Woods Bowman was professor emeritus in the School of Public Service at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois until his death in July, 2015, in an auto accident. He was also senior fellow of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses at DePaul and received its Excellence in Public Service Award. His research was in the areas of financial management of nonprofit and governmental organizations, the economic value of volunteers in nonprofit organizations, taxation and fiscal policy of nonprofits, and a theory of membership association finance. His book, Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits: Building Capacity and Sustainability, was chosen for a research award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Other publications include numerous journal articles and contributions to edited volumes. He also wrote and taught about ethics in various settings for practitioners and students, including a regularly appearing column in The Nonprofit Quarterly. Prior to joining DePaul he served for fourteen years as a member of the Illinois General Assembly and later as the chief executive officer of Cook County, Illinois. Earlier in his career he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where his research focused on urban economics and land use policy. Before that he was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Bowman earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master's degree in public administration, and a Ph.D. degree in dconomics, both from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

William A. Brown is a professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and holds the Mary Julia and George Jordan Professorship. He serves as the program director for the Certificate in Nonprofit Management. He teaches the Nonprofit Management, Social Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, and Capstone courses. He received a bachelor of science degree in education from Northeastern University with a concentration in human services. He earned his master's degree and doctorate in organizational psychology from Claremont Graduate University. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, he was an assistant professor at Arizona State University, where he worked as the program coordinator of their Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership and was an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management. He has worked with numerous organizations in the direct provision of services, consulting, and board governance. He served on the board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) from 2007 to 2012 and chaired the Education Committee from 2009 to 2011. His research focuses on nonprofit governance, strategy, and organizational effectiveness. He has authored numerous research articles, technical reports, and several practice-oriented publications. Examples of his work include exploring the association between board and organizational performance and developing the concept of mission attachment. Publication outlets include Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, International Journal of Volunteer Administration, and Public Performance and Management Review. He has completed an edited volume entitled Nonprofit Governance: Innovative Perspectives and Approaches (Routledge, July 2013) with Chris Cornforth. A textbook entitled Strategic Management in Nonprofit Organizations was published in March 2014 (Jones & Bartlett).

Jeffrey L. Brudney, Ph.D., is the Betty and Dan Cameron Family Distinguished Professor of Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. The Urban Institute calls him “the foremost research expert on volunteer management programs and community volunteer centers in the United States.” Dr. Brudney has received numerous honors and awards for his professional activities. In 2015 he received the Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research (formerly called the Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement) from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). His book, Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector: Planning, Initiating, and Managing Voluntary Activities, earned the John Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Education. In addition to receiving other awards for research, Dr. Brudney has been honored with the Mentor's Award of the American Political Science Association for providing “exceptional guidance to graduate students or to junior faculty members.” Dr. Brudney serves on the United Nations Volunteers Programme Technical Advisory Board on the State of the World's Volunteerism Report. He recently concluded his term as editor-in-chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the leading academic journal in nonprofit and voluntary studies worldwide.

John M. Bryson is McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He works in the areas of leadership, strategic management, collaboration, and the design of engagement processes. He wrote Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (4th ed., Jossey-Bass, 2011), and co-wrote with Barbara C. Crosby Leadership for the Common Good (2nd ed., Jossey-Bass, 2005). Dr. Bryson is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and received the 2011 Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration for “outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended scholarly career.”

Nancy E. Day is an associate professor of human resources and organization behavior at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). She also serves as UMKC's faculty ombudsperson. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and has served as executive MBA director, department chair, and interim associate dean. Her research has been published in such journals as the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Management, Personnel Psychology, Personnel Review, Employee Relations, and the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. Before joining the faculty, Dr. Day was a consultant in the practice areas of compensation and performance management as well as an HR practitioner. She has served on the board of World and Work (and the American Compensation Association), as president of the Midwest Academy of Management, and as a long-time member of the Academy of Management. She currently serves the Academy as chair of the Ethics Ombudsperson Committee.

Alnoor Ebrahim is an associate professor at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose. He is author of the award-winning book, NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning and is co-editor of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (both with Cambridge University Press). Professor Ebrahim's research is closely integrated with practice. He recently served on a working group established by the G8 to create global guidelines on impact measurement for investors, and on an advisory board of the Global Impact Investing Network. He has authored commissioned reports on civil society relations with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and he consults to international NGOs on their challenges of global governance and accountability. Dr. Ebrahim holds a BSc degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he studied environmental planning and management.

Shannon Ellis, MNA, is a project director at CompassPoint. She supports nonprofit leaders as they hone and develop their organizational strategy, build their financial literacy, and increase their organizations' sustainability. She also teaches public and customized workshops for nonprofits, as well as in CompassPoint's cohort leadership programs. Ellis has a deep personal commitment to social equity and believes that nonprofits have an important role to play as we move toward a more just society. She has worked in nonprofits throughout her career and is a Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional.

Brenda Gainer is director of the Social Sector Management Program and holds the Royal Bank Professorship in Nonprofit Management at York University in Toronto, Canada. She teaches marketing, resource development, and philanthropy; alternative approaches to social value creation (social enterprise, fair trade and co-operatives); and leadership in the nonprofit sector. Her published work appears in a wide variety of journals and conference proceedings, and she is on the editorial board of a number of academic and practitioner journals. Before embarking on an academic career, Gainer worked in the areas of aboriginal rights, women's issues, and arts and culture. She has also developed capacity-building leadership programs for immigrant and refugee-serving NGOs, child welfare organizations, and the social housing sector. She has served on the board of Canada Helps, a web-based organization dedicated to increasing philanthropy in Canada, as well as a number of other Toronto organizations. Her professional service includes advisory boards for Statistics Canada and other government agencies and two terms as vice president of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council. Most recently she served two terms as a board member of the International Society for Third Sector Research, and she is a past president of the association.

Virginia C. Gross is a shareholder with Polsinelli PC, concentrating her practice on providing advice and counsel to tax-exempt organizations. She counsels exempt organizations on all aspects of tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations law. Clients include charitable and educational organizations, private foundations, health care entities, associations, supporting organizations, social welfare organizations, and social clubs. Gross has worked with numerous nonprofit boards of directors and trustees regarding their nonprofit governance and best practices. She is a frequent writer and speaker on nonprofit law topics. Her publications include Nonprofit Governance: Law, Practices & Trends (Wiley) and Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities (Wiley), as well as Private Foundations–Distributions (Sec 4942), a Tax Management Portfolio (BNA). Gross earned her J.D. from the University of Texas and her B.S. degree from Texas A&M University and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for Nonprofit Organizations/Charities Law for 2008–2016. She is currently serving as a member of the Exempt Organizations subcommittee of the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Governmental Entities. Gross has served on numerous governing boards and provides extensive pro bono legal services to many charities and other nonprofit organizations.

Peter Dobkin Hall was Hauser Lecturer on Nonprofit Organizations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Associated with Yale's Program on Non-Profit Organizations from 1978 to 1999, he also held teaching appointments in Yale's Department of History, Divinity School, Ethics, Politics, and Economics Program, and School of Management. Hall's publications include Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations (1998), Inventing the Nonprofit Sector and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations (1992), Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America (1992), and The Organization of American Culture, 1700–1900: Organizations, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality (1982). (It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Peter in the spring of 2015.)

Scott T. Helm is the associate director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, as well as a teaching faculty member at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Using his background in economics and nonprofit management, Helm has spent the last decade working with nonprofit organizations, assisting them with program evaluation, market research, commercialization, business planning, strategic planning, and board training. Helm's primary research focus is social entrepreneurship. His work in this area has led to publication, presentations at international and national academic conferences, as well as projects with local nonprofit organizations on how to innovate. His writing has garnered awards, including the Nonprofit Management and Leadership 2011 Editors' Prize for Volume 20 for the article, “Beyond Taxonomy: An Empirical Validation of Social Entrepreneurship in the Nonprofit Sector,” written with Fredrik Andersson.

Robert D. Herman is professor emeritus of the Department of Public Affairs and senior fellow with the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, both of the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC). He is a founder of UMKC's Master of Public Administration nonprofit management program, one of the first to be created in the United States. Herman's research has concentrated on the effective leadership of nonprofit charitable organizations, including chief-executive-board relations, and his most recent research has focused on nonprofit organizational effectiveness. He has published extensively, including scholarly and practitioner publications such as Public Administration Review, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and he is co-author of Executive Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (with Dick Heimovics, 1991) and co-editor of Nonprofit Boards of Directors (with Jon Van Til, 1989). Herman is the founding editor of the Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (1994; 2nd ed., 2005). Herman has served in numerous leadership roles in the field of nonprofit studies, including past president of the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars (now know as the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, or ARNOVA). Herman received his B.A. degree in economics from Kansas State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in organizational behavior, from Cornell University.

Bruce R. Hopkins concentrates on the representation of tax-exempt organizations, practicing with the Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri. He is the Professor from Practice at the University of Kansas School of Law. He has authored or co-authored more than thirty books on nonprofit law subjects, including The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations (11th ed.); The Tax Law of Charitable Giving (5th ed.); The Law of Fundraising (5th ed.); Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance (4th ed.); Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Dictionary; Nonprofit Governance: Law, Practices, and Trends; and Tax-Exempt Organizations and Constitutional Law: Nonprofit Law as Shaped by the U.S. Supreme Court. He writes a monthly newsletter, the Bruce R. Hopkins” Nonprofit Counsel. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America for Nonprofit Organizations/Charities Law, 2007–2016. He earned his JD and LLM degrees at the George Washington University, his SJD degree at the University of Kansas, and his B.A. degree at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the State of Missouri.

Thomas H. Jeavons currently serves as an adjunct professor of philanthropic studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and he has served for many years as a trustee of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. Previously he was the executive director of ARNOVA; and before that was the general secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the largest Quaker judicatory in the United States. His academic career included serving as the founding director of the Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University. He holds a Ph.D. in management from the Union Institute, an M.A. in theology from the Earlham School of Religion, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Colorado.

Matthew T. A. Nash is managing director for social entrepreneurship at Duke University's Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative and is a fellow and past executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. A visiting lecturer at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses in social innovation, Nash was the founding center director of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke, a development lab for scaling innovations in global health, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prior to joining the CASE team, he was a senior consultant in strategy and change management with the public-sector practice at IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting). Previously, he led the Leadership Institute at Yale's Center for Public Service and volunteered with the U.S. Peace Corps as a nongovernmental organization development consultant in Romania. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Management (MBA) and Yale College (B.A.). A recipient of Vice President Al Gore's “Hammer Award” for reinventing government, Nash has been honored by Ashoka and the Cordes Foundation for innovation in social entrepreneurship education.

Sarah K. Nathan, Ph.D., is associate director of the Fund Raising School, the nationally known professional training program for fundraising practitioners. In this role, she supports faculty and curriculum development. Recently, she managed the publication of the fourth edition of Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, and she is currently directing a national study of the fundraising profession. Previously, she was assistant professor of nonprofit management and philanthropy at Bay Path University, where she taught and advised online graduate students in the Master's of Nonprofit Management and Strategic Fundraising degree programs. Dr. Nathan holds a master's degree and doctorate in philanthropic studies from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Brent Never is an associate professor of nonprofit leadership, Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri–Kansas City. His research considers the spatial and geographic implications of a decentralized human service system. Using geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial regression methods, he has worked to identify communities underserved by human services. In addition, he has co-edited a special issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly considering the impact of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom on nonprofit studies. Dr. Never's research has been funded by national and regional foundations. He was a Fulbright Scholar (2003–2004 to Benin and 2007 to Northern Ireland), and in 2011–2013 was awarded a Young Scholar Research Grant from the Kresge Foundation. He has published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Voluntas, and Nonprofit Policy Forum. In addition, Dr. Never regularly writes for the practitioner audience in the Nonprofit Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Indiana University-Bloomington.

M. May Seitanidi (FRSA) is an associate professor of strategy at Kent Business School, University of Kent. She is a visiting fellow at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) at Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, and a visiting professor in CSR at LUISS Business School, Rome, Italy. Her work for over twenty years, as a practitioner and academic, focused on all types of cross-sector social interactions, previously on philanthropy and socio-sponsorship, and currently on social partnerships. She was the founder of the Hellenic Sponsorship Centre (1994), the magazine Sponsors and Sponsorships (1995) and the Annual Review of Social Partnerships (2006), promoting cross-sector collaboration for the social good. In 2007 she founded the International Symposia Series on “Cross Sector Social Interactions” (CSSI) organized by academics at leading universities around the world. She has served as a consultant and trainer for many private, public, and nongovernmental organizations. Books include The Politics of Partnerships (2010, short-listed for the SIM 2013 Best Book Award), Social Partnerships and Responsible Business. A Research Handbook (2014, co-authored with Andrew Crane), and Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice (2014, co-authored with James E. Austin and received the 2014 Finalist Terry McAdam Best Book Award Book of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management).

Jung-In Soh is a doctoral student in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' Department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University. With a background in direct social service provision in local government and nonprofit agencies, her research interests include nonprofit finance and effectiveness.

Steven Rathgeb Smith is the executive director of the American Political Science Association. Previously, he was the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also taught for many years at the University of Washington, where he was the Nancy Bell Evans Professor at the Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center for Nonprofits & Philanthropy. In addition, he has taught at Georgetown, American, and Duke universities, and Washington University in St. Louis. From 1997 to 2004, he was editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and, from 2006 to 2008, president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Dr. Smith has authored and edited several books, including, most recently, Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014; co-edited with Robert Pekkanen and Yutaka Tsujinaka).

Eugene R. Tempel, Ed.D., is president emeritus of the Indiana University Foundation, founding dean emeritus of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and a professor of philanthropic studies. He led the world's first school devoted to research and teaching about philanthropy, is an internationally recognized expert on the philanthropic sector, and has four decades of leadership and fundraising experience. A member of several nonprofit boards, Professor Tempel is a past chair of the national Association of Fundraising Professionals' Ethics Committee. The author of several works in the field, he has won numerous awards and has been named among the fifty most influential nonprofit sector leaders thirteen times by The NonProfit Times, which also named him the sector's first “Influencer of the Year” in 2013.

John Clayton Thomas is a professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Thomas teaches master's- and doctoral-level courses on program evaluation and performance measurement and has written four books and more than sixty articles in the areas of program evaluation, performance measurement, citizen-government relationships, and other aspects of public management. Dr. Thomas has also consulted and conducted training for state and local governments and nonprofit agencies in Colorado, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Missouri. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and a B.A. (magna cum laude) and M.A. in journalism and mass communications from the University of Minnesota.

Mary R. Watson is executive dean at The New School in New York City. In this role she leads a portfolio of graduate schools in the fields of management, public policy, environment, international affairs, media studies, and writing, as well as an adult undergraduate program in liberal arts. Watson's research and creative practice explore shifting labor market inequalities, including sustainable global supply chains, executive career paths, ethics in multinational operations, design inspired leadership, and the future of work and learning. She plays a leadership role in networks advancing social and environmental innovation, including the Ashoka Changemaker campuses and Management Education for the World, and she is on the advisory board of Social Accountability International. Watson has taught in the United States, South Korea, India, Austria, and Australia, and she is recipient of The New School's Distinguished University Teaching Award. She earned her Ph.D. in organization studies from Vanderbilt University.

Dennis R. Young is executive in residence in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and professor emeritus at Georgia State University. Previously he was a professor of public management and policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies where he directed GSU's Nonprofit Studies Program and held the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair in Private Enterprise. From 1988 to 1996 he was director of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Mandel Professor of Nonprofit Management at Case Western Reserve University. He is the founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership and founding and current editor of Nonprofit Policy Forum, and a past president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). His books include A Casebook of Management for Nonprofit Organizations, Economics for Nonprofit Managers (with Richard Steinberg), Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads (with Dwight Burlingame), Effective Economic Decision Making for Nonprofit Organizations, Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times, Financing Nonprofits, Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management (with Bruce A. Seaman), Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise: Governance and Democracy (with Philippe Eynaud and Jean-Louis Laville), and The Social Enterprise Zoo (with Elizabeth A. M. Searing and Cassady V. Brewer). In 2013, his 1983 book If Not for Profit for What? A Behavioral Theory of the Nonprofit Sector Based on Entrepreneurship was digitally reissued with new commentaries from contemporary scholars by the Georgia State University Library. Young received ARNOVA's 2004 Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research and the Award for Innovation in Nonprofit Research from the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research at Ben Gurion University in 2005. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Liege in Belgium for his work on social enterprise and entrepreneurship. He served on the governing board of the National Council of Nonprofits from 2008 to 2014 and the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center/Atlanta from 2005 to 2015.