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Beth Gazley

Beth Gazley

Assistant Professor


Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004
M.P.A., University of Georgia, 2001
B.A., Middlebury College, Vermont, 1983
C.E.P., Certificat d’Etudes Politiques, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France, 1982
C.F.R.E. (Certified Fund-Raising Executive), Association of Fundraising Professionals, 1996

Professional Experience

  • Currently a Member of the Philanthropic Studies Faculty, IUPUI
  • Served as a fundraising professional and management consultant in various positions in Washington, DC, Connecticut and Georgia, for public interest, cultural, and higher education institutions from 1983–1999.

Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • 2009 Recipient, IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University-Bloomington
  • Best 2007 Journal Article. Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Management Division, Anaheim, California
  • Finalist (with Michael McGuire, Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUB) in the 2007 Networks and Public Management Syllabus Competition, sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation and University of Pennsylvania
  • Trustee Teaching Award, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 2007
  • William H. Newman Award for best conference paper based on a dissertation. Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Management Division, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006
  • Doctoral Student of the Year Award, Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, 2003
  • Emerging Scholar Award, ARNOVA, 2002

Professional Interest
Nonprofit management and governance, volunteerism, collaboration, intersectoral relations and the role of the voluntary sector in emergency planning.

Current Projects

Professor Gazley is currently working on projects that examine the role of voluntary organizations in emergency planning, the capacity of community organizations to involve student service-learners, and collaborative motivations and collaborative capacity in intersectoral partnerships. She is also working with the American Society of Association Executives on a national study of association volunteers and association philanthropic giving.

Selected Publications
Full Vita

  • Co-editor (with David Van Slyke, Syracuse University) of a special symposium issue on “The future of public administration: Critiques from the Minnowbrook III conference,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. (Forthcoming 2009)
  • Gazley, Beth. “Personnel Recruitment and Retention in the Nonprofit Sector: The 21st Century Challenge,” in Hays, Kearney, and Coggburn (Eds.), Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects, 5th edition. Prentice-Hall (forthcoming 2009).
  • O’Leary, Rosemary, Beth Gazley, Michael McGuire and Lisa Blomgren Bingham. 2009. Public managers in collaboration. In R. O’Leary and L.B. Bingham (Eds.), The Collaborative Public Manager: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
  • Gazley, Beth and Laura Littlepage. (2009). “Understanding Service-learning from a Volunteer Management Capacity Perspective.” In M. Moore and P. Lan (Eds.) Service-Learning in Higher Education: Paradigms and Challenges. Indianapolis:University of Indianapolis Press.
  • Gazley, Beth. (2009). “Why not partner with local government? Nonprofit managerial perceptions of collaborative disadvantage.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (in press).
  • Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2009). “Planning to be prepared: An empirical examination of the role of voluntary organizations in county government emergency planning.” Public Performance and Management Review (in press).
  • Gazley, Beth and Monica Dignam. (2008). Decision to Volunteer. Washington, DC: American Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership.
  • Gazley, Beth. (2008). “Inter-Sectoral Collaboration and the Motivation to Collaborate: Toward an Integrated Theory,” in R. O’Leary and L.B. Bingham (Eds). Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
  • Gazley, Beth. (2008). “Beyond the contract: The scope and nature of informal government-nonprofit partnerships.” Public Administration Review, 68(1):141-154.
  • Christensen, Robert K. and Beth Gazley. (2008). “Capacity and public administration: Analysis of meaning and measurement.” Public Administration and Development, 28: 265-279.
  • Gazley, Beth, Laura Littlepage and Christina Myers. (2007). Volunteer management capacity and student service-learners: A study of Indiana community agencies. Indianapolis: Center for Urban Policy and the Environment.
  • Gazley, Beth and Brudney, Jeffrey L. (2007).“The purpose (and perils) of government-nonprofit partnership.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36(3): 389-415. Winner of the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division Best Journal Article Award, 2007.
  • Beth Gazley, Won Kyung Chang, and Lisa Blomgren Bingham. (2006). “Collaboration and citizen participation in community mediation centers.” Review of Policy Research, 23(4): 843-863.
  • Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2006). “Moving ahead or falling behind? Volunteer promotion and data collection.” Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 16(3): 259-276.
  • Gazley, Beth. (2005). “Conclusion: Toward the Future of Volunteering,” in Jeffrey L. Brudney (Ed.), Emerging Areas of Volunteering, ARNOVA occasional paper series.
  • Gazley, Beth and Jeffrey L. Brudney. (2005). “Volunteer involvement in local government post-9/11 and the continuing question of capacity.” Public Administration Review, 65(2): 131-142.
  • Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2003). “Federal volunteerism policy and the states: An analysis of Citizen Corps,” in Chi, Keon S. (Ed.), The Book of the States. Lexington, KY: The Council of State Governments. Pp. 516-522.
  • Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2002). “Testing the conventional wisdom on volunteer programs: A longitudinal analysis of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) and the U.S. Small Business Administration.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 31(4): 525-548.
  • Brudney, Jeffrey L. and Beth Gazley. (2002). “Implementation of the USA Freedom Corps at the state and local level: An early assessment.” Spectrum: The Journal of State Government, 75(4): 34-38.
  • Gazley, Beth. (2001). “Volunteer vacationers: What can research tell us about them?” E-Volunteerism, 1(2). On the World Wide Web at www.evolunteerism.com.