- Phone:
- (812) 855-1464
- Email:
- bgazley@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 353
- Areas of Interest:
- Nonprofit management and policy ,
- Intersectoral relations and collaboration ,
- Volunteerism ,
- Coproduction
Education
- Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004
- M.P.A., University of Georgia, 2001
- C.F.R.E., Certified Fund-Raising Executive, Association of Fundraising Professionals, 1996
- B.A., Middlebury College, Vermont, 1983
- C.E.P., Certificat d'Etudes Politiques, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France, 1982
Courses
- Capstone in Public Affairs
- Doctoral Seminar in Nonprofit Management Research and Theory
- Human Resource Management in Nonprofits
- Management in the Nonprofit Sector
- Nonprofit Management and Leadership
Biography
Professor Beth Gazley is co-founder of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute and co-principal investigator on Prepared for Environmental Change, a Grand Challenge research program at IU. Her focus is on civil society and philanthropic behaviors related to climate change adaptation.
Gazley specializes in nonprofit management, inter-organizational collaboration, the management of membership associations, and volunteerism. Best known for her groundbreaking work on nonprofit-government collaboration, Gazley is a prolific writer and researcher, with more than 60 published works since 2001. She also studies governmental reliance on charities to fund public services.
Gazley spent 16 years in nonprofit fundraising and management consulting before returning to graduate school. A member of the IU faculty since 2004, Gazley has received the Indiana University 2018 W. George Pinnell Award for Service, the 2013 Indiana Campus Compact Brian Douglas Hiltunen Award, and the 2012 Indiana University Board of Trustees Thomas Ehrlich Award (both for contributions to service-learning scholarship), the 2012 RGK Center/ARNOVA Presidents Award, and a 2009 campus Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Highlights
- IU Distinguished Service Award (2017-18)
- Steering Committee, Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University (ERI@IU), $55 million Grand Challenge grant
- Author/coauthor of more than 24 articles in the past five years
- Public Administration Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership editorial board member
- $42,000 ASAE Grant for book on good governance and board development
- 2012 Indiana University Board of Trustees Thomas Ehrlich Award
- 2007 Trustee Teaching Award, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
In the News
- "Want a front-row seat at your child’s graduation? Bidding starts at $200" - Seattle Times, June 10, 2017
- "SPEA Faculty Help Lead $300 Million 'Grand Challenge' Research Program" - IU Newsroom, May 10, 2017
- "Trump vows to ‘totally destroy’ restrictions on churches’ support of candidates" - Washington Post, February 2, 2017
Selected Works
- “Charitable Support for U.S. National and State Parks Through the Lens of Coproduction and Government Failure Theories,” (with Y.Cheng), Nonprofit Policy Forum (2018)
- “What Drives Good Governance? A Structural Equation Model of Nonprofit Board Performance,” (with J. Nicholson-Crotty), Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (December 2017)
- Transformational Governance: How Boards Achieve Extraordinary Change, (with K. Kissman) John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey (2015)
- What Makes High-Performing Boards: Effective Governance Practices in Member-Serving Organizations (with A. Bowers) Washington, DC: American Society of Association Executives (2013)
- "Good governance practices in professional associations for public employees: Evidence of a public service ethos?" Public Administration Review (2014)
- "Achieving the partnership principle in experiential learning: The nonprofit perspective," (with T. Bennett and L. Littlepage). Journal of Public Affairs Education, 19 (3):559-579 (2013)
- "Building collaborative capacity for disaster resiliency," Disaster Resiliency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Eds. Naim Kapucu, Christopher Hawkins and Fernando Rivera). New Jersey: Routledge (2012)
- "Capacity and public administration: Analysis of meaning and measurement," (with R. K. Christensen). Public Administration and Development, 28: 265-279 (2008)
- "Inter-sectoral collaboration and the motivation to collaborate: Toward an integrated theory," Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management (L.B. Bingham and R. O’Leary (Eds.). Armonk, NY: M.E Sharpe (2008)
- "The purpose (and perils) of government-nonprofit partnership," (with J. L. Brudney). Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36(3): 389-415 (2007)