Please join me in congratulating , associate professor of nonprofit management in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, on receiving a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to oversee research for one of its projects, as well as for receiving the from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) for his .
Brad, whose research focuses on the nonprofit sector, directs the , which combines social science and data science to advance giving and volunteering. He has compiled millions of IRS records on nonprofit organizations and constructed a funder-grantee network dataset of the entire nonprofit sector with the aim of increasing the sector’s effectiveness and impact.
Applications of his research include collaborating with to identify foundations most likely to fund faculty research, partnering with the to direct resources to rural areas, and helping the map the distribution of philanthropic funding outside the U.S.
Congratulations, Professor Fulton!