Stone Earns RGK Center-ARNOVA President's Award
Melissa M. Stone, the Gross Family Professor of Nonprofit Management and member of the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center, has just been awarded the 2011 RGK Center-ARNOVA President's Award for her research on charter school governance. Stone, with colleague Jerry Zhao and research assistant Colin Cureton, are conducting research that examines how charter school governance and financial management practices may affect school sustainability and student outcomes in Minnesota.
The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service (at the University of Texas at Austin) and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action [ARNOVA] offer this annual award to encourage innovative, foundational research in the field of nonprofit and philanthropic studies.
The RGK Center-ARNOVA President's Award provides a $10,000 prize to a member of ARNOVA to support basic research and theory building in the field of philanthropic, nonprofit and voluntary action studies. Stone, with colleague Jerry Zhao and research assistant Colin Cureton, are conducting research that examines how charter school governance and financial management practices may affect school sustainability and student outcomes in Minnesota.
