Wolfgang Bielefeld 
Senior Researcher, Organizational Analysis
Dr. Bielefeld is Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs and Adjunct Professor at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Before coming to Indiana, Professor Bielefeld taught in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Sociology departments at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University, and the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. His interests include the relations between nonprofit organizations and their environments, the dynamics of nonprofit sectors, the development of human service delivery systems, and the social impacts of government human service policies and spending patterns. Current research agendas include: the origin, extent and consequences of the spatial distribution of nonprofits over metropolitan areas; the relations of nonprofit and for-profit organizations; the organizational, economic, and political dynamics in local human service delivery systems; the involvement of faith-based organizations in service delivery, and the contributions of nonprofits to social capital in communities. Dr. Bielefeld's work has also appeared in numerous publications, including: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, VOLUNTAS, Social Forces, Administration & Society, Policy Studies Review, Policy Studies Journal, and American Behavioral Scientist.

Partha Deb 
Lead Researcher, Outcome Evaluation
Partha Deb, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at IUPUI. Dr. Deb was trained as an econometrician and has considerable experience in modeling utilization, costs and provider choice in the economics of health, mental health and diabetes. His expertise includes models for discrete and censored, survival analysis including multistate, multispell duration and sample selection and treatment effects models. Dr. Deb's research in a variety of areas of economics has been published in Economics Letters, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Financial Research, Health Economics, Health Services Research, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research and Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Dr. Deb received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Calcutta University and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Economics from Rutgers University. He has taught econometrics at the graduate level at IUPUI, Indiana University and the University of Illinois.

Leda McIntyre Hall
Researcher
Leda McIntyre Hall is an associate professor of public management at IU South Bend's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.  She teaches public management, urban management, and classes on the nonprofit sector.  Hall directs the Institute for Applied Community Research, a consulting service staffed by faculty and grad students; the IACR offers strategic planning, program evaluation, training programs, and survey research (among other services) to local governments and nonprofit agencies.  Her Ph.D. in political science is from Wayne State University in Detroit.  Her dissertation examined the United Methodist Church in Detroit as a Social Change Agent and used the then-nascent literature on the "voluntary sector."  She has continued her interest in the nonprofit sector and has published articles in that area.  She also has an interest in public housing policies, particularly resident management issues and has also published articles about this topic.   In addition to the Charitable Choice Project, Leda is a field associate with Kirsten Grønbjerg's project on Mapping the Nonprofit Sector in Indiana.

Laura Jensen
Lead Researcher, Massachusetts
Dr. Jensen is Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Associate of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before arriving at UMass, she spent ten years in elected municipal office in Connecticut, and was a Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Wesleyan University. Dr. Jensen's work tracing the relationship between Federal social policy and American state formation has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Political Science Association. Her current research focuses on legal and political dimensions of contemporary social policy. She has published articles in The Review of Politics, Studies in American Political Development, Public Administration Review, and Polity. Her book, Entitlements and the Constitution of the American Nation, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Dr. Jensen holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.F.A. from Princeton University, and an M.P.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Dana Jones 
IMPACT Liaison
Dana Jones is a graduate research assistant at the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is currently working as an intern for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration where she is responsible for collecting data for the Charitable Choice Research Project and designing a billing database for the county self-reported data received by the IMPACT program. She is also involved in several research projects related to the future of Central Indiana and the three-year evaluation of Join Hands Day, a national day of service. She recently designed a Web site outlining options for financing local stormwater management programs in cooperation with the United States EPA and the Watershed Management Institute.  Ms. Jones holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Butler University and she is currently pursuing a Master of Public Affairs degree at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Sheila Suess Kennedy
Principal Investigator
Sheila Suess Kennedy holds a B.S. from Indiana University and a J.D. from its School of Law, where she was managing editor of the Indiana Law Review. She practiced real estate, administrative and business law, first at Baker & Daniels and later at Mears, Crawford, Kennedy & Eichholz. She served as Corporation Counsel for the City of Indianapolis, was a Republican candidate for Indiana's then 11th Congressional District seat, and was President of Kennedy Development Services, a real estate development firm. Prior to joining the faculty of I.U.'s School of Public & Environmental Affairs in 1992, she served six years as Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union. Her research focuses on the constitutional and policy implications of privatization and public-private partnerships. Ms. Kennedy is the author of two books, and co-editor of a third. In addition to her scholarly publications, she is a regular columnist for the Indianapolis Star, and a frequent contributor to other periodicals.

Laura Littlepage
Researcher
Laura Littlepage, senior research associate at the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, currently is working on several projects related to the study of Central Indiana as well as projects related to the study of gambling in Indiana. She is co-investigator of a three-year evaluation of Join Hands Day, a national day of service sponsored by America's Fraternal Benefit Societies that emphasizes youth-adult partnerships. She is also co-investigator of an evaluation of FAMILY MATTERS, a program that encourages family volunteering, for the Points of Light Foundation. She is part of a team that is conducting a three-year national evaluation of charitable choice for the Ford Foundation. She has designed and conducted evaluations of all stages of programs, from needs assessments to process evaluations to outcome evaluations for clients that include the Indiana Gaming Commission, Indianapolis Parks Foundation, Arts Partners (a program of Young Audiences), Campus Compact, and Community Centers of Indianapolis. She also serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, teaching Research Methods and Public Program Evaluation. She has been the principal author of several center publications and journal articles.

Littlepage holds a Master of Public Administration degree from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in public affairs from Indiana University. She has ten years of government experience at both the state and local level in New York and Indiana in various capacities with duties that included budgeting, policy analysis, and program evaluation.

Edward Queen
Senior Researcher, North Carolina and Capacity/Accountability
Edward L. Queen II received his B.A. degree (1976) from Birmingham-Southern College and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he studied under Martin Marty. Along with serving as a senior researcher on the Charitable Choice implementation Project Queen directs the Islamic Society of North America's Fellowships in Nonprofit Management. Previously he directed the Religion and Philanthropy Project at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and served as program officer at Lilly Endowment. A specialist in issues related to religion and culture, Queen's research interests are religion and nonprofits, democratization, and civil society. He has written, coauthored, or edited numerous books on these topics, including Philanthropy in the World's Traditions (1998) and The Encyclopedia of American Religious History (1992). Queen also serves as a consultant and adviser to numerous nonprofit organizations.

Rachel Thelin
Researcher and Project Manager
Rachel Thelin, research coordinator at the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, is project manager for the study. She is also involved in a project related to the study of Central Indiana as well as program evaluation for the Points of Light Foundation.  Her previous experience includes working with and volunteering for a variety of nonprofit organizations and social service agencies, in the U.S. and internationally. She has worked as a researcher for the Colorado Department of Human Services, evaluating an agency-wide cultural diversity program. Ms. Thelin holds a B.A. in sociology from Goshen College and an M.A. in international studies from the University of Denver.