Dr. Mark Hager

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Arizona State University
College of Public Programs
School of Community Resources and Development
Nonprofit Studies
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 2008
Arizona State University
Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation
Director of ResearchAppointed: 2008
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Mailing Address

ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation
Mail Code 4120
411 N Central Ave
Suite 500
Phoenix, Arizona 85004
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (602) 496-1058
Mark.Hager@asu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Sociology, 1999.
M.A., University of Minnesota, Sociology, 1995.
B.S., Kansas State University, Speech / Rhetoric, 1990.

Expertise and Research Interests

Mark A. Hager is Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies in the School of Community Resources and Development and Director of Research in the Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation at Arizona State University. He is a past Senior Research Associate in the Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank, where he was principal investigator for a federally-funded study of volunteer management capacity in charities and congregations. His other voluntary action research includes studies of the scope, dimensions, administration, and financial operations of and reporting by nonprofit organizations. Hager earned his Ph.D. in organizational sociology at the University of Minnesota with a study of the causes of nonprofit organization closure. In addition to book chapters, research reports, and professional presentations, his work on the behavior of nonprofit organizations has appeared in Public Administration Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Public Management Review, the Journal of Volunteer Administration, Nonprofit Quarterly, and the American Behavioral Scientist.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Arts Administration, Arts Planning Or Policy, Community Development or Revitalization, Community Ecology, Community Or Outreach Programs, Community Services, Community Studies, Corporate Or Nonprofit Philanthropy, Museum Funding, Nonprofit Management, Organizational Theory and Behavior, Performing Arts, Public Policy, Regional Economics, Regional Planning Or Policy, Social Organization, Social Sciences, Social Services Delivery, Social Welfare, Social Welfare Planning Or Policy, Urban Sociology, Volunteers.

Memberships

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

Honors and Awards

2000, Gabriel G. Rudney Memorial Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
2000, Best Dissertation Award, Public & Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management

Previous Positions

2005-2008, Director, University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute for Economic Development, Center for Community and Business Research
2000-2005, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
1999-2000, Director of Research, Americans for the Arts

Publications

  • Mark A. Hager (2009) Functions of Nonprofit Organizations, International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, New York, NY, Springer Publications, Submitted (bookchapter)
  • Robert McKinley, Javier Oyakawa, Michael Cline, Mark A. Hager, Manufacturing Sector Dynamics, (research report), San Antonio, TX, UTSA Institute for Economic Development & Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research, 2008
  • Elizabeth T. Boris, Loren Renz, Mark A. Hager, Rachel Elias, Mahesh Somashekhar, What Drives Foundation Expenses and Compensation? Results of a Three-Year Study, (research report), Washington, D.C., The Urban Institute, the Foundation Center & GuideStar, 2008
  • Mark A. Hager, Jeffrey L. Brudney (2008) Management and Retention of Volunteers, Challenges in Volunteer Management, Greenwich, CT, Information Age Publishing, In Press (bookchapter)
  • Mark A. Hager, The Ultimate Question, Nonprofit Quarterly, Fall, 40-49, 2007
  • Woods Bowman, Elizabeth Keating, Mark A. Hager (2007) Investment Income, Financing Nonprofits: Bridging Theory and Practice, Lanham, MD, AltaMira Press, 157-181 pages (bookchapter)
  • Kennard Wing, Teresa Gordon, Mark Hager, Thomas Pollak, Patrick Rooney, Functional Expense Reporting for Nonprofits: The Profession's Next Scandal?, CPA Journal, August, 14-18, 2006
  • Mark A. Hager, Should Your Nonprofit Build an Endowment?, Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer, 57-60, 2006
  • Elizabeth T. Boris, Loren Renz, Asmita Barve, Mark A. Hager, George Hobor, Foundation Expenses and Compensation: How Operating Characteristics Influence Spending, (research report), Washington, D.C., The Urban Institute, the Foundation Center & GuideStar, 2006
  • Kennard Wing, Mark Hager, Patrick Rooney, Thomas Pollak, Paying for Not Paying for Overhead, Foundation News and Commentary, May/June, 32-37, 2005
  • Mark A. Hager, Jeffrey L. Brudney (2005) Net Benefits: Weighing the Challenges and Benefits of Volunteers, Journal of Volunteer Administration, 23 (1), 26-31
  • Mark A. Hager, Amy Brimer, Thomas H. Pollak (2005) The Distribution of Nonprofit Social Service Organizations along the Rural-Urban Continuum, Rural Social Work Practic, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 73-85 pages (bookchapter)
  • Beth Duckles, Mark A. Hager, Joseph Galaskiewicz (2005) How Nonprofits Close: Using Narratives to Study Organizational Processes, Qualitative Organizational Research, Greenwich, CT, Information Age Publishing, 169-203 pages (bookchapter)
  • Mark A. Hager, Public Trust in the Public Face of Charities, Democracy & Society, Spring, Georgetown University: Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, 9, 15, 2004
  • Mark A. Hager, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Volunteer Management Practices and Retention of Volunteers, (research report), Washington, D.C., The Urban Institute, 2004
  • Mark A. Hager, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Balancing Act: The Challenges and Benefits of Volunteers, (research report), Washington, D.C., The Urban Institute, 2004
  • Mark A. Hager, Mary Kopczynski, Value of the Performing Arts in Five Communities 2, (research report), Washington, D.C., Performing Arts Research Coalition, 2004
  • Mark A. Hager, Thomas H. Pollak (2004) Haves and Have-Nots: Investment Capital among Performing Arts Presenters in the United States, International Journal of Arts Management, 6 (2), 54-65
  • Mark A. Hager, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Jeff A. Larson (2004) Structural Embeddedness and the Liability of Newness among Nonprofit Organizations, Public Management Review, 6 (2), 157-186
  • Mark Hager, Janet Greenlee (2004) How Important is a Nonprofit's Bottom Line? The Uses and Abuses of Financial Data, In Search of the Nonprofit Sector, Somerset, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 85-96 pages (bookchapter)
  • Patrick M. Rooney, Mark A. Hager, Thomas H. Pollak, Research about Fundraising and Administrative Costs, Giving USA Update, Issue 2, Indianapolis, AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy, 2003
  • Mark A. Hager, Is Grant Proposal Writing a Fundraising Expense?, Nonprofit Quarterly, 10(1), 24-28, 2003
  • Mary Kopczynski, Mark A. Hager, The Value of the Performing Arts in Five Communities, (research report), Washington, D.C., Performing Arts Research Coalition, 2003
  • Mark A. Hager (2003) Current Practices in Allocation of Fundraising Expenditures, New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, 41, 39-52
  • Mark A. Hager, Sarah Wilson, Thomas H. Pollak, Patrick Michael Rooney (2003) Response Rates for Mail Surveys of Nonprofit Organizations: A Review and Empirical Test, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 32 (2), 252-267
  • Mark A. Hager, Thomas H. Pollak, The Capacity of Performing Arts Presenting Organizations, (research report), Washington, D.C., The Urban Institute, 2002
  • Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, Mark A. Hager, Jami M. Stockdale, D. Alex Heckert (2002) Divergent Views of Clients and Professionals: A Comparison of Responses to a Needs Assessment Instrument, Journal of Social Service Research, 28 (3), 41-63
  • Mark A. Hager, Patrick M. Rooney, Thomas H. Pollak (2002) How Fundraising is Carried Out in U.S. Nonprofit Organisations, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 7 (4), 311-324
  • Elizabeth T. Boris, Mark A. Hager, Using Research: Being a Responsible Consumer, NonProfit Times, Financial Management Edition, 15 Dec 2001
  • Mark A. Hager, Update: New Research on Financial Vulnerability, The Not-For-Profit CEO Monthly Letter, 8(8), 4-6, 2001
  • Mark A. Hager (2001) Financial Vulnerability among Arts Organizations: A Test of the Tuckman-Chang Measures, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 30 (2), 376-392
  • Melissa Middleton Stone, Mark A. Hager, Jennifer J. Griffin (2001) Organizational Characteristics and Funding Environments: A Study of a Population of United Way-Affiliated Nonprofits, Public Administration Review, 61 (3), 276-289
  • Mark A. Hager, The Survivability Factor: Research on the Closure of Nonprofit Arts Organizations, Monographs, Washington, D.C., Americans for the Arts, 4(1), 2000
  • Thomas Pollak, Mark A. Hager, Elizabeth Rowland (2000) University Arts Programs and Local Communities: A Report on a Pilot Study, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 30 (2), 146-159
  • Mark Hager, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Wolfgang Bielefeld, Joel Pins (1999) Tales From the Grave: Organizations' Accounts of their Own Demise, When Things Go Wrong: Organizational Failures and Breakdowns, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, 51-70 pages (bookchapter)
  • Mark A. Hager, Organizational Demise: What Can We Learn from Failed Not-For- Profits?, The Not-For-Profit CEO Monthly Letter, 6(2), 1-3, 1998
  • Lilya Wagner, Mark A. Hager, Board Members, Beware! Warning Signs of Troubled Nonprofits, Nonprofit World, 16(2), 18-21, 1998
  • Joseph Galaskiewicz, Wolfgang Bielefeld, with Mark Hager, with Yoshito Ishio, with Joel Pins (1998) Growth and Decline among Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty: A Study of Organizational Change, Hawthorne, NY, Aldine de Gruyter, 83-124 pages (bookchapter)
  • Joseph Galaskiewicz, Wolfgang Bielefeld, with Mark Hager, with Cheryl Jorgensen (1998) A Profile of the Twin Cities Public Charity Sector: 1980-1994, Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty: A Study of Organizational Change, Hawthorne, NY, Aldine de Gruyter, 41-81 pages (bookchapter)
  • Mark A. Hager, Joel J. Pins, Cheryl A. Jorgensen (1997) Unto Thy Maker: The Fate of Church-Based Nonprofit Clinics in a Turbulent Health Care Environment, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 26 (Supplement), S85-S100
  • Mark Hager, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Wolfgang Bielefeld, Joel Pins (1996) Tales From the Grave: Organizations' Accounts of their Own Demise, American Behavioral Scientist, 39 (8), 975-994

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