ChiaKo Hung
Dr. ChiaKo Hung is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice. His research emphasizes the importance of flexible financial resources for nonprofits to adapt to evolving environments, offering valuable insights to funders, practitioners, and researchers in philanthropy and financial management. His co-authored paper, “The Impact of Revenue Diversification on Nonprofit Financial Health: A Meta-Analysis,” was recognized by Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly as a top article in 2020, and his co-authored work, “Institutional Constraints, Market Competition, and Revenue Strategies,” was celebrated by VOLUNTAS in 2023 for its foundational contributions to social enterprise research.
Femida Handy
Femida Handy is Professor of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and, until her sabbatical in 2022, was the Director of the Ph.D. program. Her research and teaching focus on the economics of the nonprofit sector, volunteering, philanthropy, nonprofit management, entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and microfinance. Professor Handy was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly in 2010-2016, the premier journal in the field. She served on the editorial board of several academic journals. Professor Handy has published widely in various scientific journals on nonprofit-related topics, and her work has garnered many awards. One area of prominence is her scholarship on volunteering and philanthropy in an international context. Her recent books are The Palgrave Research Companion to Global Philanthropy (2015), which she co-edited with Pamala Wiepking, and Ethical Decision-Making for Social Impact. (2018), which she co-authored with Allison Russell. She has also written on environmental issues, including a children’s book introducing the ecological footprint concept.
Peter Schubert
Peter Schubert is currently a project manager at ZiviZ im Stifterverband, Germany. He holds a Master degree in Nonprofit Management & Governance from the University of Heidelberg and completed his PhD at University of Hamburg in 2020. As part of his doctoral research, he examined the phenomenon of the nonprofit starvation cycle and studied the willingness among grantmkaing foundations to support organizational infrastructure of grantee organizations.
