RGK Center Summer Fellowship Program

FELLOWS in the news

Fellows Appointed to Academic Positions

• Lindsey McDougle is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice in Philadelphia.
• Lewis Faulk will begin a tenure-track position this fall at the American University School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.
• John Ronquillo will begin a tenure-track position this fall at the DePaul University School of Public Service in Chicago.

Fellows Present at 11th Biennial Public Management Research Conference

• Government Regulation and the Self-construction of Self-regulating Nonprofit Organizations (Susan Appe, University at Albany)
• Innovation Climate in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (John Ronquillo, University of Georgia/DePaul University)

2010 ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award: Lindsey McDougle

The ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award is designed to help develop the next generation of scholars, foster dissemination of research into practice, and enhance practitioner involvement in the creation of usable knowledge. Congratulations Lindsey!

Summer Fellow Awarded International Research Grant

Former PhD Summer Fellow Jasmine McGinnis is a recipient of a grant from the International Research in Philanthropy Awards.

Students Selected for ARNOVA Doctoral Student Seminar

Susan Appe, Lewis Faulk and John Ronquillo were selected as 2010 ARNOVA Doctoral Fellows.

Former Fellows launch Third Sector Network blog

Third Sector Network: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on all things nonprofit, philanthropic and beyond.

Fellows Present at Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Papers / Presentations from RGK Fellows:

• Family and Independent Foundation Giving: Implications of Foundation Governance on Grant Making (Jasmine McGinnis, Georgia State; Shena Ashley, Syracuse)
• Do CSR Ratings Encourage Companies To Be More Responsible? (Olena Verbenko, University of Chicago)
• Assessing Board Network Structures in the Nonprofit Sector (Jurgen Willems et al, Free University of Brussels)
• Different Motives, Different Expectations? Relating Volunteer Motives and Psychological Contracts (Jurgen Willems et al, Free Univeristy of Brussels)

Fellows Speak at Georgia State University

Former fellows Sondra Barringer and Erica Coslor lectured at the Brown Bag Seminar Series in Nonprofit Research. The series is held at Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and discusses cutting-edge research in the nonprofit sector.

ARNOVA Best Paper Award Nominee: John Ronquillo

John Ronquillo's paper, "Drawing Lines, Spanning Boundaries: Managerial Perceptions of Innovation Value in Public and Nonprofit Organizations," that he presented at the 2009 ARNOVA Conference, was nominated for the Best Paper Award. The award is now given annually at the ARNOVA Conference each year to honor the best paper from the preceding year's Conference.

2009 ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award: John Ronquillo

The ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award is designed to help develop the next generation of scholars, foster dissemination of research into practice, and enhance practitioner involvement in the creation of usable knowledge.

"I'm grateful for my time as a summer doctoral fellow at the RGK Center so that I could develop one of the papers that eventually helped me be recognized as an ARNOVA Emerging Scholar.”

ARNOVA Best Poster Award: Jasmine McGinnis

“Winning this award has helped me make the decision that this is a worthwhile research agenda and I will be submitting this paper to a journal in the next few weeks.”

Paper accepted to Public Administration Review: Rebecca Nesbit

Nesbit, Rebecca and David Reingold, "Soldiers to Citizens: The Link Between Military Service and Volunteering" Public Administration Review, forthcoming.

A draft of this paper is available under the Fellows' listing on this page.