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Eleanor Brown is the James Irvine Professor of Economics at Pomona College. Her research centers on charitable giving, volunteering, nonprofit organizations, and resource allocation within the family. She was a deputy editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly from 1998 to 2010.

Francie Ostrower, is Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Senior Fellow at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. She is also an Urban Institute Affiliated Scholar. Her research and teaching focus on philanthropy, nonprofit governance, and cultural participation.

Diane Vinokur-Kaplan is an associate professor of human services management at the University Of Michigan School Of Social Work in Ann Arbor. She has published in such areas as work motivation, job training and job satisfaction and interdisciplinary teams. She has also served on the board of ARNOVA. . Her current research is on non-profit co-locations, where separate organizations reside under one roof and share services.

Michael Meyer is a full professor for Nonprofit-Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), where he is the head of the Research Institute for Nonprofit Organisations. Current Research: Managerialism, Social Systems Theory, New Venture Philanthropy, Careers in Civil Society. He is author or co-author of numerous publications.

Putnam Barber has been active in supporting understanding of the work of nonprofits by staff and volunteers and by the general public since the early 1990s. He is editor of the Nonprofit FAQ (http://www.idealist.org/npofaq) and a Senior Advisor to the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.

Margaret Harris is Academic Adviser to the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was formerly Professor of Voluntary Sector Organisation at Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK and Assistant Director of the Centre for Voluntary Organisation at the London School of Economics.

Richard Steinberg is Professor of Economics, Philanthropic Studies, and Public Affairs at IUPUI. He coedited The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd Ed., coauthored Economics for Nonprofit Mangers, and was Co-President of ARNOVA from 1992-1994. His research focuses on determinants of giving and volunteering, the theory of nonprofit organizations, public policy, and nonprofit managerial economics.

Steven Heydemann serves as Vice President of the Grant and Fellowship Program. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago (1990) and has held faculty positions at Columbia University and Georgetown University, where he directed the Center for Democracy and Civil Society from 2003-2007. Heydemann directed the Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector from 2001-2003.

Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Former Dean of the School of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Centraid L.Jacques Menard Chair in Social Work for the Study of Volunteer and Nonprofit Organizations.

Ralph S. Brower is Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy and Director of the Center for Civic and Nonprofit Leadership, Florida State University. His research uses primarily qualitative methods, and his current work examines theories of voluntary action, especially for international settings.

Paul G. Schervish is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. His most recent book, co-authored by Keith Whitaker is /Wealth and Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches//in the Service of Ultimate Purpose/ (Indiana University Press: 2010).