Dennis Young, Professor and Director (NSP)
Professor of Public Management and Policy
Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise
M.S. and Ph.D., Stanford University
Suite 355, AYSPS
Phone: 404-413-0126
E-mail: dennisryoung@gsu.edu
Young helped establish the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western and was its director from 1988 to 1996. He is also president and founding CEO of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise based in Arlington, Virginia. From 1972 to 1987, he was a Professor at the W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy.
A former President of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Dr. Young recently received this organization's Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. Dr. Young is editing two forthcoming volumes, Financing Nonprofits: Bridging Theory and Practice and Wise Decision Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively.
Young is the recipient of numerous grants concentrating on nonprofit interests, and is a widely respected authority in the nonprofit field. He has written many articles and several books, including co-authoring Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads, and Economics for Nonprofit Managers. He is founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership, which he edited from 1990 through 2000. He was recently named to the NonProfit Times "Power and Influence Top 50" list.
