The conference begins on Friday, April 19 (registration starts at 1 p.m.), and concludes on Saturday, April 20, at 3:30 p.m. The following agenda is a draft and subject to change. With the exception of the first conference pre-session, all conference locations are on Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix Campus.
Day 1: Friday, April 19
| Fri., April 19 | Day 1 | Location |
| 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Conference Pre-Session #1 Tour of the ASU Helios Decision Center at Helios Education Foundation Registration is now closed for this pre-session. | Helios Education Foundation (directions) |
| 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Conference Pre-Session #2 A Conversation with Associate Editors of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Hosted by Elizabeth Dale (Seattle University) and Dyana Mason (University of Oregon), associate editors of NVSQ Doctoral students invited to attend. | Join via Zoom |
| 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Registration Open | ASU Thunderbird School, Downtown Phoenix Campus (directions) |
| 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Welcome to the West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference Robert Ashcraft Executive Director and Saguaro Professor of Civic Enterprise Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation Arizona State University Opening Plenary: “Funders’ Perspectives on Nonprofit Data” A conversation about how funders think about data and its use to inform grantmaking decisions, the evaluation of results and other implications Moderator: Kim Covington Vice President, Community Initiatives Arizona Community Foundation Panelists: Jacky Alling Interim CEO, Arizona Commission on the Arts Senior Fellow for Philanthropy, ASU Lodestar Center Jon Ehlinger President Garcia Family Foundation Erin Goodman Senior Program Officer Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust David Martinez III Director of Capacity Building and Community Engagement Vitalyst Health Foundation | ASU Thunderbird School’s Global Forum |
| 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. | Break and Transition to Participant Presentations | |
| 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions #1: Attendees choose a breakout session to attend Breakout A: Data Measurement and Application | Chair: Megan Pontes, Arizona State University | Location: Thunderbird Global Forum How Do We Measure Social Entrepreneurship? Gordon Shockley, Arizona State University Leveraging Academic Methods to Inform Practical Applications: A USAID Case Study in Locally Led Development Samantha Temple, Colorado School of Mines Leveraging Cell-Phone Mobility Data to Measure Social Capital Elizabeth Tong, University of Washington Observing Civic Engagement: Studying Civil Society Organization Convenings with Systematic Social Observation Matthew Baggetta, Brad Fulton and Julie Beasley, Indiana University Breakout B: Nonprofit Finance | Chair: Will Brown, Texas A&M University | Location: Thunderbird 301 Data Extraction from NGO Financial Statements within a Global South Context Sandy Zook, University of Colorado Denver Implications of Variation in Nonprofit Fiscal Years Todd Ely, University of Colorado Denver; Thad Calabrese, New York University Just My Type: Reimagining a Data-Informed Nonprofit Revenue Typology Elizabeth Searing, University of Texas at Dallas; Jesse Lecy, Arizona State University; George Mitchell, City University of New York Breakout C: Knowledge and Theory of the Nonprofit Sector | Chair: Emily Nwakpuda, University of Texas at Arlington | Location: Thunderbird 311 From Smart to Wise: Using Community Capital Dashboards to Improve Urban Planning and Decision Making Elizabeth Castillo, California State University San Bernardino; Mark Roseland, Arizona State University Understanding Community-Service Volunteers’ Perspectives of Challenges and Frustrations: The Case of AmeriCorps Yinglin Ma, Eastern Kentucky University What Do We Mean by Collaboration Process? A Systematic Review of the Literature Danbi Seo, Arizona State University; Beth Gazley, Indiana University; Chao Guo, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Break and Transition to Optional Dinner Outing | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Dinner Reserved for those who signed up and paid during conference registration. Dinner registration is now closed. | The Pub at Thunderbird, 5th Floor, ASU Thunderbird School |
Day 2: Saturday, April 20
| Sat., April 20 | Day 2 | All Saturday sessions at Beus Center for Law and Society (BCLS), ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus (directions) |
| 7:30 – 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast and Networking | BCLS 544 |
| 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Transition to Sessions | |
| 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions #2: Attendees choose a breakout session to attend Breakout D: Philanthropy and Social Capital | Chair: Elizabeth Castillo, California State University San Bernardino | Location: BCLS 267 Academic Philanthropy in Turbulent Times Emily Nwakpuda, University of Texas at Arlington; Jonathan Oxley, Georgia State University Accelerating Science: Blended Contractual Practices in Venture Philanthropy Alex Graddy-Reed, University of Southern California; Maryann Feldman, Arizona State University; Janet Bercovitz, University of Colorado Boulder Is Social Capital a Capital for Nonprofits? The Effects of Social Capital on Income from Individual Donations Gowun Park, Stanford University The Giving Pledge: Comparing the Philanthropic Values Across Billionaire Cohorts Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego; William Piper, University of San Diego Breakout E: Nonprofit Communication | Chair: Matthew Baggetta, Indiana University | Location: BCLS 555 Decoding Digital Dynamics: Enhancing Audience Engagement in Small NPOs on Facebook through Community-Centric Strategies Wen chen Denq, California Lutheran University Nonprofit Messaging Strategy in the Context of Social Movement Advocacy Minjung Kim, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Allison Russell, University of Texas at Dallas; Peter Frumkin, University of Pennsylvania Nonprofit Organizations Facing Emergent Technology: A Community-Based Research Hanjin Mao, University of Houston – Downtown Quantifying Compassion: A Data-Driven Analysis of NGO Communication on Climate Change Yiwen Wu, University of Kansas; Hong Vu and Huong Ha, University of Kansas; Giang Do, University of Tennessee Chattanooga Breakout F: Nonprofit Resources | Chair: Sandy Zook, University of Colorado Denver | Location: BCLS 655 Operating Reserves as a Tool for Resilience in Nonprofits Jingyan Cheng, Rutgers University Organizational Hybridity and Commercialization: A Framework for Assessing Nonprofits Ji Ma, University of Texas at Austin; ChiaKo Hung, University of Pennsylvania To be Experienced or to be Innovative? Signals Influencing Nonprofit Start-ups’ External Resource Acquisition Chen Ji, Louisiana State University in Shreveport; Fredrik Andersson, Indiana University | |
| 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:15 – 11:30 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions #3: Attendees choose a breakout session to attend Breakout G: Data Collection and Sources | Chair: Minjung Kim, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Location: BCLS 267 Expanding Data Sets of Emergency Food Providers Jacob Leppek, Vivery The Client Experience: a Method for Collecting and Analyzing Nonprofit User Data Brent Never, University of Missouri – Kansas City; Yugyung Lee, Ye Wang and Duy Ho, University of Missouri – Kansas City Valuing Non-financial Resources: Where Is the Data? Elizabeth Searing, University of Texas at Dallas; Allison Russell, University of Texas at Dallas; Sarah Jacobson, Williams College; Angela de Oliveira, University of Massachusetts Amherst Breakout H: Managerial and Institutional | Chair: Hong Vu, University of Kansas | Location: BCLS 555 Domesticating or Radicalizing? The Effect of Institutional Control on Nonprofit Organizational Practices Gowun Park, Stanford University; Yi Zhao and Walter Powell, Stanford University Scale and Scope of Impact Investments in the Nonprofit Sector Marcus Lam, University of San Diego; Katharine Wardle, University of San Diego Breakout I: Data and Evaluation | Chair: Gordon Shockley, Arizona State University | Location: BCLS 655 Centering Community in Needs Assessment: Reporting Root Causes Frankie Leigh, data/research professional Exploring the Nonprofit Workforce with Census Bureau Microdata Dan Hunting, Arizona State University How Engaging is Civic Engagement? Interaction at Civil Society Organization Convenings Matthew Baggetta, Brad Fulton and Julie Beasley, Indiana University Mapping the Non-profit Sector in the United Kingdom: Lessons from Large-Scale Data Linkage of Registry Data Alasdair Rutherford, University of Stirling | |
| 11:30 – 11:45 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Catered Lunch Plenary Presentation Creating Sustainable Online Dashboards for the Nonprofit Sector Dan Hunting and Pravalika Samala, Arizona State University | BCLS 544 |
| 1:00 – 1:15 p.m. | Break | |
| 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions #4: Attendees choose a breakout session to attend Breakout J: Equity, Inclusion and Wellbeing | Chair: Elizabeth Searing, University of Texas at Dallas | Location: BCLS 655 Implementation In Homeless Services to Address Racial Disparities Emily Nwakpuda, University of Texas at Arlington; Hyokyung Kwak, College of Charleston; Saerim Kim, Columbus State University; Andrew Sullivan, University of Central Florida Resolving 45 Years of Conflicting Classic DC Model Finding: A Moderated Mediation Analysis Using Nonprofit Human Service Employees Mark Preston, data/research professional Breakout K: Nonprofits and Government | Chair: Samantha Temple, Colorado School of Mines | Location: BCLS 555 Changing Views of Government and Nonprofits in the United States Payton Goodman, Indiana University Indianapolis Local Government – Extent of Contracting with Nonprofits and Contract Considerations Kirsten Grønbjerg, Indiana University Bloomington; Eric Schmidt and Anna Doering, Indiana University Understanding Nonprofit Engagement in Water Resource Management During Periods of Drought Claudia Valencia Uribe, University of California, Irvine | |
| 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 2:45 – 3:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks/Reflections Joe Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona Robert Ashcraft, Arizona State University | BCLS 544 |