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Staff Contacts
Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management (INOM)
College of Professional Studies
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
p: 415.422.6867
e: inom@usfca.edu
INOM is a research and educational institute devoted to the nonprofit
and philanthropic sector. Staff’s academic disciplines and
professions include sociology, education, social work, public policy
analysis, and community organizing. Staff substantive, program,
and policy specialties include nonprofit management education, nonprofit
governance, strategic planning, nonprofit housing and common interest
developments, immigration, Latino nonprofits and philanthropy, nonprofit
lobbying and advocacy, mental health research, poverty, and urban
studies.
Kathleen Fletcher
Director
e: fletcher@usfca.edu
p: 415.422.5121 |
Kathleen is the director of the USF Institute
for Nonprofit
Organization Management and program director for the Master
of Nonprofit
Administration (MNA) degree program. She has been a consultant
and
researcher in nonprofit management for over 25 years. Kathleen
has taught
courses on nonprofit governance and strategic planning in
the MNA program
since 1986 and also teaches nonprofit governance at the Haas
School of
Business, UC Berkeley. Her research activities have included
studies on
board/executive relations, ethnic diversity on nonprofit boards,
and
nontraditional board structures and practices. She holds a
BA in History
from UCLA, an MPA degree with emphasis in nonprofit management
from USF,
and a doctorate in education from USF.
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Carol J. Silverman
Director of Research
e: silverman@usfca.edu
p: 415.422.2164 |
Carol Silverman serves as Research Director for the Institute.
She has a number of current interests, including: peoples’
biographies of civic engagement – how does their involvement
change over time in response to specific events and changes
in their own lives; strategies to promote homeownership for
moderate income households using the mutual benefit form; the
dual role of intra- and extra-organizational factors in facilitating
the use of technology by small nonprofits; and a statistical
portrait of the nonprofit sector in California. Her past research
at the Institute has included work looking at the interest of
the Faith Community in Charitable Choice funding, the role of
religion in giving and volunteering, and economic stressors
affecting arts organizations.
Carol received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University
of California, Berkeley. Trained as an urban sociologist with
a strong background in both qualitative and quantitative sociology,
she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in mental health
research. She has conducted housing policy research for the
state of California and served as the Co-Principal Investigator
on several NIH studies of the effectiveness of mental health
services by agencies founded by ex-patients. |
Arleda Martinez
Research Assistant/
Grants Manager
e: amartinez@usfca.edu
p: 415.422.6515 |
Arleda acts as both Research Assistant and Grants Manager
for the Institute. As Research Assistant, she has extensive
experience in organizing the design, printing, mailing, tracking,
and data input tasks of survey administration. As Grants Manager,
Arleda has responsibility for overseeing all Institute project
budgets, and ensuring that all financial and reporting requirements
are met in a timely and accurate manner.
Arleda holds a BA in Humanities from New College of California
and has worked for nonprofits and research institutes throughout
her career.
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The Institute does not provide individual consultation or advice
on incorporation, tax-exemption, fundraising, board development,
etc. You can find links to relevant resources on our Frequently
Asked Questions page.
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