Research
I'm a public management scholar with a nonprofit practitioner background. My interests are grant making by governments, foundations and donor advised funds; nonprofit planning and response to disaster and climate change; and the policy process. Please don't hesitate to email me for copies of any of my publications or circulating papers in progress!
Publications
Gazley, B. & Cash, R. (2023). Nonprofit Disaster Response and Climate Change: Who Responds? Who Plans?. Nonprofit Policy Forum. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2023-0017
Under Review
Gazley, Beth; Cash, Rachel; Kravitz, Ben; Noonan, Doug. Climate Change Vulnerability of the Nonprofit Social Safety Net.
Gazley, Beth, Parrlberg, Laurie, Cash, Rachel. Community Foundations, Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness
White Papers
2022. Cash, Rachel, Beth Gazley. Results of the Indiana Natural Disaster Preparedness Survey
Projects in Progress
Qualitative Study on How Nonprofits Plan for Disaster
Currently conducting interviews with Dr. Beth Gazley with Indiana nonprofits to build a model of planned behavior.
DAFs, Anonymity,
and Controversial Causes
Using account level data to learn more about how and to what extent donors use DAFs to make donations which are anonymous even to the donee organizations.
Private Foundations, DAFs and Abortion
Building a dataset of grants from foundations from 1971-2022 to analyze how oppositional strategies were formed and evolved in influencing public policy on abortion through the court system.
Donor Advised Funds in the US, UK and South Africa
This project seeks to build a descriptive dataset that we can then use to compare the formation and regulation of DAFs in the U.S., United Kingdom and South Africa.
