James Andreoni is currently service as a Professor of economics at the University of California in San Diego. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His current teaching portfolio includes public economics, experimental economics, microeconomic theory, and advanced economic theory. His research focuses on public economics (including philanthropic giving, fundraising, and altruism) as well as experimental research focused on altruism, trust issues, public goods, and gender differences in philanthropic behavior. Dr. Andreoni currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.

Rene Bekkers is Head of Research and Assistant Professor at the Department of Philanthropic Studies at VU University Amsterdam. After he completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from Utrecht University, he received a personal grant from the Netherlands Scientific Organization (NWO) to study the effect of education on prosocial behavior. His current research takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine determinants and consequences of giving and volunteering, combining experiments and survey methodology.

Eleanor Brown joined the faculty at Pomona College in 1986 where she is currently the James Irvine Professor of Economics. She completed her economics education at Princeton University, receiving her M.A. in 1977 and her Ph.D. in 1981. While specializing in microeconomics, her teaching portfolio includes: micro theory; public finance; gender, family, and economic roles; as well as philosophy, politics and economics. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on resource allocation in the absence of profit-maximizing behavior, through private philanthropy, volunteer labor, government, nonprofit organizations, and within the family. Dr. Brown is an officer of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy and since 1998 has served as the deputy editor of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Melissa S. Brown, Associate Director of Research and managing editor for Giving USA at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, has responsibilities for applied research projects and for researching and writing the annual report Giving USA, a publication of Giving USA Foundation. Ms. Brown began worked at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University in 1991 as a development associate. She moved to the Research department in 2001. In addition to her work for the research department, Ms. Brown teaches courses about grant proposal development for the Center’s program, The Fund Raising School. Ms. Brown has fundraising experience in higher education, health care, social services, and the arts. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a Master of Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Angela M. Eikenberry is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She completed her Ph.D. in Public Administration from UNO in 2005. Her main research interests are in the social, economic and political roles philanthropy, voluntary associations, nonprofit organizations, and civil society play in democratic governance. Her book on giving circles and “new philanthropy” will be published July 2009 by Indiana University Press. Before a career in academia, Dr. Eikenberry was a development and grant writing consultant.

Chris Einolf is currently serving as an Assistant Professor for the School for Public Service at DePaul University where he teaches Introduction to Public Service Management, Statistics, and Analyzing Nonprofit Organizations. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2006 with concentrations in Sociology of the Family and Political Sociology. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and a Masters of Arts degree concentrated in International Affairs from Columbia University. Einolf’s research focuses on volunteering and charitable giving as well as issues dealing with human rights. His doctoral dissertation, “Pathways to Altrism: A Gender and Life Course Perspective” won the ARNOVA Gabriel Rudney dissertation award in 2007.

After 10 years in college and university administration, Dr. Gasman received a Ph.D. in higher education from Indiana University in 2000. She came to University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor in 2003. In 2008, Dr. Gasman was promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Gasman is an historian of higher education. Her work explores issues pertaining to philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, and African-American giving. In addition to these works, Dr. Gasman is the editor (with Benjamin Baez and Caroline Sotello Turner) of Understanding Minority Serving Institutions (SUNY Press, forthcoming in 2008) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Triumphs, Troubles, and Taboos (Palgrave Press, forthcoming in 2008) with Christopher Tudico.

Debra Mesch is currently serving as the Director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana, and is a Professor of public and nonprofit management at SPEA. She holds an M.S. from Vanderbilt University, and an M.B.A and Ph.D. from the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington in the area of organizational behavior and human resource management. Her teaching focus is on managing workforce diversity and human resource management for nonprofit organizations. Dr. Mesch’s current research agenda focuses on the topics of board diversity, race and gender differences in philanthropic behavior, and executive compensation. She is a long-term Board Member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana.

Una Okonkwo Osili is an associate professor of economics and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. She received her bachelor's degree in economics with honors from Harvard University and her M.A and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. During the fall of 2007, Dr. Osili was a visiting associate professor at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She currently serves as a research fellow at the Networks Financial Institute. Dr. Osili's main areas of research include private transfers in developing and developed countries. Her recent work focuses on immigrants and their economic ties to their origin and host communities, specifically in the areas of philanthropy, informal giving, and financial market decisions. Apart from academia, she has served as a consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Program.

Nancy Robertson is an associate professor of history at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. She completed her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in history from New York University in 1997. Her research interests include late nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States; American philanthropy; religion; U.S. race relations; and women and their professions. Robertson’s current project is an examination of the intersection between the for-profit sector and voluntary associations found by analyzing the “women’s departments” that existed in many American banks.

Lise Vesterlund is currently serving as the Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Economics. She holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her current teaching portfolio consists of courses in intermediate microeconomics and public finance. Her research interests include public finance, experimental economics, and applied microeconomics.

Andrea Walton is currently serving as an associate professor of education and philanthropic studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She served as a visiting assistant professor from August 1996 to May 1998, and she was asked to return as an assistant professor in August 1998. She holds an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe focused English and American Literature, an M.A. from Columbia University focused on International Educational Development, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University focused on History and Education. Her research focuses on the history of education, especially the history of universities, the history of women and education, and the history of philanthropy in education. She is currently working on two book length projects: an edited volume on the history of women, philanthropy, and education in the U.D. and an interpretive history of the experience of women administrators and faculty at Barnard College and Columbia University.

Patricia Wittberg is a Sociology Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1982. Her current teaching specialties include sociology of religion; formal organizations; and community and urban sociology. Her research interests include: growth and decline of churches, power in religious organizations, and bureaucracy in religious organizations. Dr. Wittberg also served as the editor of a religious scholarly journal, the Review of Religious Research from 2002-2008.

Mark Wilhelm joined the IUPUI Economics Department in 1998 where he is currently serving as an associate professor of economics specializing in the economics of pro-social behavior and applied econometrics. He holds a B.E.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. Currently his teaching curriculum includes courses in introductory statistics and econometrics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Previous teaching experience also includes economics of altruism, income distribution and poverty, economics of public expenditures, introduction to economics, and independent study courses on welfare spending. Dr. Wilhelm’s research interests are in the economics of prosocial behavior focused more specifically on intergenerational transfers, help within families, voter motives to support public assistance to the poor, and charitable giving. He has directed the Center on Philanthropic Panel Study since 1999, gathering high-quality survey data on giving and volunteering from 9,000 American families.

Dwight Burlingame is Associate Executive Director and Director of Academic Programs at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and a professor of Philanthropic Studies and Public and Environmental affairs at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. He holds a B.S. from Moorhead State University, an M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. focus on Library Sciences from Florida State University. His research interests focus on philanthropic studies and library science. Dr. Burlingame is also currently serving as the coeditor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the official journal of ARNOVA.

Patrick Rooney is the Executive Director at the Center on Philanthropy where he directs Center-wide research activities, including the Center’s signature research project, a longitudinal study of philanthropy in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Dr. Rooney is also serving as a professor of economics and philanthropic studies at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. focused on economics from the University of Notre Dame, a Certificate of Management Development at Harvard University, and a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the Fundraising School at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. His research focuses on economics (employee ownership and participation); higher education administration and finance (enrollment management and responsibility center management); and philanthropy and nonprofit management.