Jennifer E Mosley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1743795 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jennifer E Mosley |
| PRENOMES | Jennifer E |
| SOBRENOME | Mosley |
| ASSINATURA | MOSLEY J E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9292-6710 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 325 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Frank R. Breul Memorial PrizeJennifer MosleyJennifer Mosley Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe are pleased to announce that the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize has been awarded to Yoosun Park and Michael Reisch for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humaniz…
Standing Up for Nonprofits
Impact, Equity, and Philanthropic Foundations
Philanthropic foundations in the USA have long wrestled with how to demonstrate they contribute to the public good in a democratic society given the outsized voice their wealth provides. Evaluating the work of their grantees is one way that foundations can demonstrate what that contribution is; the data drawn from evaluation are used to give accounts about the value of their work. Recently, foundations have confronted the evidence-based policy mo…
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks
In fragmented policy areas, collaboration between government entities and nonprofit providers is thought to promote knowledge sharing and reinforce mutual accountability, hopefully improving performance. The popularity of this trend is matched only by the difficulties in actually meeting these multiplex goals. This is partly because there are both process (e.g., engagement and mutual learning) and outcome (e.g., effectiveness) goals that can work…
Decision-Making in Collaborative Governance Networks
Participants may lose faith in collaborative governance processes if they do not perceive internal decision-making processes to be legitimate. Yet, understanding how to assess internal legitimacy and what network characteristics are associated with it has been an enduring challenge. In this article, we propose conceptualizing internal legitimacy as multi-vectored, contrasting input legitimacy—the degree of openness and access that participants ex…
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Homeless Services
Homeless services are plagued by resource scarcity and fragmentation, making the field a poster child for cross-sector collaboration-a policy trend where nonprofits and government come together to address problems that cannot be solved by one sector alone. The continuum of care (CoC) system mandates this-through coordination, regions are thought to be better able to integrate services to improve homeless outcomes. This study uses qualitative data…
Building Knowledge to Support Human Service Organizational and Management Practice
Leaders of human service organizations (HSOs) face significant pressures from policymakers and funders to justify practices and ensure successful outcomes, an issue that has implications for social work practitioners and evidence-informed management practice. Although empirical research has advanced understanding of the factors that improve human service effectiveness and organizational improvement, considerable research-to-practice gaps exist an…
How Structural Variations in Collaborative Governance Networks Influence Advocacy Involvement and Outcomes
Collaborative governance is intended to solve complex problems and promote democratic outcomes by connecting ground‐level stakeholders with government. In order for these goals to be met, however, participants must have meaningful influence and opportunities for voice. Using national survey data from Continuums of Care (CoCs) mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this article investigates what structural characteristic…
The intermediary roles of foundations in the policy process
Do Residents of Low-Income Communities Trust Organizations to Speak on Their Behalf? Differences by Organizational Type
Low-income people of color in urban communities have been found to suffer from high levels of political inequality and poor political representation. To make policy more responsive and accountable, neighborhood organizations are often solicited to serve as informal community representatives in local decision-making processes. Given this reliance on nonelected representatives, we ask, Do community residents believe neighborhood organizations are l…
Strategic use of evidence in state-level policymaking
Nonprofit Organizations’ Involvement in Participatory Processes
Participatory processes – defined as formal efforts to involve constituents in government decision-making – are an increasingly common tool adopted by public agencies and other elite decision making bodies in many developed nations. Unfortunately, although conceptualized as a way to incorporate lay citizens as stakeholders, participation in such processes takes time and expertise that many citizens do not have. As a result, nonprofit leaders are …
Cross-sectoral collaboration in the pursuit of social change
This field note explores how a hybrid social change organization based in India engaged in cross-sectoral collaboration with police and community-based sectors to address sex trafficking and advance both social change and service provision goals. Staff members successfully mobilized and engaged partners via insider tactics, ultimately improving the response of mainstream institutions to sex trafficking, while also strengthening individual service…
Recognizing New Opportunities
Policy advocacy is a concept that is of both practical and historical importance to the profession of social work. To keep up with developments in how advocacy is practiced at the ground level, however, social work research on advocacy needs to expand in scope. Changes in government contracting and public management practices have reshaped the opportunity structure for policy advocacy, incentivizing a kind of advocacy that is routine, professiona…
Representation in Nonelected Participatory Processes
Increasing public participation in administrative decision making has become an important goal in many public agencies. To determine who should participate in an open decision-making process, many public agencies develop purposive selection strategies to counteract the obvious biases that arise from self-selection. To accomplish this, leaders of nonprofit organizations, assumed to represent the views of the residents they serve, are often asked t…
Forthcoming Articles
Collaboration, Public-Private Intermediary Organizations, and the Transformation of Advocacy in the Field of Homeless Services
Participation in collaborative advocacy organizations is one of the most common advocacy tactics pursued by nonprofit organizations. However, field-level dynamics and norms around collaboration may be changing with the growth of public-private intermediary organizations. Using a lens that brings together theories of structuration and institutional entrepreneurship, this research investigates (a) how intermediary organizations structure advocacy o…
Keeping the Lights On
Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars and practitioners to wonder if increased dependence on government funds would compromise this role. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between government funding and advocacy participation, goals, and tactics through a qualitative investigat…
Residents' perceptions of effective community representation in local health decision-making
Institutionalization, Privatization, and Political Opportunity
Although awareness of the involvement of human service nonprofits (HSNPs) in policy advocacy has grown, scholars continue to know little about how they actually carry out their advocacy work. This study uses a large, representative survey of HSNPs to answer two primary research questions: First, what kinds of advocacy tactics do HSNPs participate in most frequently? Second, does reliance on government funding and greater institutionalization, bot…
Nonprofit Agencies in Public Child Welfare
Growth in privatization has made human service nonprofit organizations increasingly important providers of public child welfare services. Policy advocacy is a key tool that these organizations can use to communicate their unique on-the-ground experience to lawmakers, potentially improving policy and strengthening services for at-risk children and families. However, little is known about the degree to which they participate in advocacy or the ways…
Organizational Resources and Environmental Incentives
Participation in policy advocacy by human service nonprofits has the potential to both strategically position organizations in their environment and promote client well‐being. Despite these possible benefits, however, many human service nonprofits do not engage in policy advocacy. This article helps explain why, by placing advocacy involvement in a broad theoretical context and providing evidence on the factors that best explain involvement. It p…
Keeping the Lights On
Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars and practitioners to wonder if increased dependence on government funds would compromise this role. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between government funding and advocacy participation, goals, and tactics through a qualitative investigat…
Organizational Resources and Environmental Incentives
Participation in policy advocacy by human service nonprofits has the potential to both strategically position organizations in their environment and promote client well‐being. Despite these possible benefits, however, many human service nonprofits do not engage in policy advocacy. This article helps explain why, by placing advocacy involvement in a broad theoretical context and providing evidence on the factors that best explain involvement. It p…
Decision-Making in Collaborative Governance Networks
Participants may lose faith in collaborative governance processes if they do not perceive internal decision-making processes to be legitimate. Yet, understanding how to assess internal legitimacy and what network characteristics are associated with it has been an enduring challenge. In this article, we propose conceptualizing internal legitimacy as multi-vectored, contrasting input legitimacy—the degree of openness and access that participants ex…
Representation in Nonelected Participatory Processes
Increasing public participation in administrative decision making has become an important goal in many public agencies. To determine who should participate in an open decision-making process, many public agencies develop purposive selection strategies to counteract the obvious biases that arise from self-selection. To accomplish this, leaders of nonprofit organizations, assumed to represent the views of the residents they serve, are often asked t…
Strategic use of evidence in state-level policymaking
Recognizing New Opportunities
Policy advocacy is a concept that is of both practical and historical importance to the profession of social work. To keep up with developments in how advocacy is practiced at the ground level, however, social work research on advocacy needs to expand in scope. Changes in government contracting and public management practices have reshaped the opportunity structure for policy advocacy, incentivizing a kind of advocacy that is routine, professiona…
Do Residents of Low-Income Communities Trust Organizations to Speak on Their Behalf? Differences by Organizational Type
Low-income people of color in urban communities have been found to suffer from high levels of political inequality and poor political representation. To make policy more responsive and accountable, neighborhood organizations are often solicited to serve as informal community representatives in local decision-making processes. Given this reliance on nonelected representatives, we ask, Do community residents believe neighborhood organizations are l…
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks
In fragmented policy areas, collaboration between government entities and nonprofit providers is thought to promote knowledge sharing and reinforce mutual accountability, hopefully improving performance. The popularity of this trend is matched only by the difficulties in actually meeting these multiplex goals. This is partly because there are both process (e.g., engagement and mutual learning) and outcome (e.g., effectiveness) goals that can work…
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Homeless Services
Homeless services are plagued by resource scarcity and fragmentation, making the field a poster child for cross-sector collaboration-a policy trend where nonprofits and government come together to address problems that cannot be solved by one sector alone. The continuum of care (CoC) system mandates this-through coordination, regions are thought to be better able to integrate services to improve homeless outcomes. This study uses qualitative data…
Collaboration, Public-Private Intermediary Organizations, and the Transformation of Advocacy in the Field of Homeless Services
Participation in collaborative advocacy organizations is one of the most common advocacy tactics pursued by nonprofit organizations. However, field-level dynamics and norms around collaboration may be changing with the growth of public-private intermediary organizations. Using a lens that brings together theories of structuration and institutional entrepreneurship, this research investigates (a) how intermediary organizations structure advocacy o…
The intermediary roles of foundations in the policy process
Residents' perceptions of effective community representation in local health decision-making
Nonprofit Agencies in Public Child Welfare
Growth in privatization has made human service nonprofit organizations increasingly important providers of public child welfare services. Policy advocacy is a key tool that these organizations can use to communicate their unique on-the-ground experience to lawmakers, potentially improving policy and strengthening services for at-risk children and families. However, little is known about the degree to which they participate in advocacy or the ways…
Building Knowledge to Support Human Service Organizational and Management Practice
Leaders of human service organizations (HSOs) face significant pressures from policymakers and funders to justify practices and ensure successful outcomes, an issue that has implications for social work practitioners and evidence-informed management practice. Although empirical research has advanced understanding of the factors that improve human service effectiveness and organizational improvement, considerable research-to-practice gaps exist an…
Cross-sectoral collaboration in the pursuit of social change
This field note explores how a hybrid social change organization based in India engaged in cross-sectoral collaboration with police and community-based sectors to address sex trafficking and advance both social change and service provision goals. Staff members successfully mobilized and engaged partners via insider tactics, ultimately improving the response of mainstream institutions to sex trafficking, while also strengthening individual service…
Impact, Equity, and Philanthropic Foundations
Philanthropic foundations in the USA have long wrestled with how to demonstrate they contribute to the public good in a democratic society given the outsized voice their wealth provides. Evaluating the work of their grantees is one way that foundations can demonstrate what that contribution is; the data drawn from evaluation are used to give accounts about the value of their work. Recently, foundations have confronted the evidence-based policy mo…
Nonprofit Organizations’ Involvement in Participatory Processes
Participatory processes – defined as formal efforts to involve constituents in government decision-making – are an increasingly common tool adopted by public agencies and other elite decision making bodies in many developed nations. Unfortunately, although conceptualized as a way to incorporate lay citizens as stakeholders, participation in such processes takes time and expertise that many citizens do not have. As a result, nonprofit leaders are …
Organizational Resources and Environmental Incentives
Participation in policy advocacy by human service nonprofits has the potential to both strategically position organizations in their environment and promote client well‐being. Despite these possible benefits, however, many human service nonprofits do not engage in policy advocacy. This article helps explain why, by placing advocacy involvement in a broad theoretical context and providing evidence on the factors that best explain involvement. It p…
Institutionalization, Privatization, and Political Opportunity
Although awareness of the involvement of human service nonprofits (HSNPs) in policy advocacy has grown, scholars continue to know little about how they actually carry out their advocacy work. This study uses a large, representative survey of HSNPs to answer two primary research questions: First, what kinds of advocacy tactics do HSNPs participate in most frequently? Second, does reliance on government funding and greater institutionalization, bot…
Nonprofit Agencies in Public Child Welfare
Growth in privatization has made human service nonprofit organizations increasingly important providers of public child welfare services. Policy advocacy is a key tool that these organizations can use to communicate their unique on-the-ground experience to lawmakers, potentially improving policy and strengthening services for at-risk children and families. However, little is known about the degree to which they participate in advocacy or the ways…
Forthcoming Articles
Collaboration, Public-Private Intermediary Organizations, and the Transformation of Advocacy in the Field of Homeless Services
Participation in collaborative advocacy organizations is one of the most common advocacy tactics pursued by nonprofit organizations. However, field-level dynamics and norms around collaboration may be changing with the growth of public-private intermediary organizations. Using a lens that brings together theories of structuration and institutional entrepreneurship, this research investigates (a) how intermediary organizations structure advocacy o…
Keeping the Lights On
Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars and practitioners to wonder if increased dependence on government funds would compromise this role. The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between government funding and advocacy participation, goals, and tactics through a qualitative investigat…
Residents' perceptions of effective community representation in local health decision-making
Recognizing New Opportunities
Policy advocacy is a concept that is of both practical and historical importance to the profession of social work. To keep up with developments in how advocacy is practiced at the ground level, however, social work research on advocacy needs to expand in scope. Changes in government contracting and public management practices have reshaped the opportunity structure for policy advocacy, incentivizing a kind of advocacy that is routine, professiona…
Representation in Nonelected Participatory Processes
Increasing public participation in administrative decision making has become an important goal in many public agencies. To determine who should participate in an open decision-making process, many public agencies develop purposive selection strategies to counteract the obvious biases that arise from self-selection. To accomplish this, leaders of nonprofit organizations, assumed to represent the views of the residents they serve, are often asked t…
Cross-sectoral collaboration in the pursuit of social change
This field note explores how a hybrid social change organization based in India engaged in cross-sectoral collaboration with police and community-based sectors to address sex trafficking and advance both social change and service provision goals. Staff members successfully mobilized and engaged partners via insider tactics, ultimately improving the response of mainstream institutions to sex trafficking, while also strengthening individual service…
Nonprofit Organizations’ Involvement in Participatory Processes
Participatory processes – defined as formal efforts to involve constituents in government decision-making – are an increasingly common tool adopted by public agencies and other elite decision making bodies in many developed nations. Unfortunately, although conceptualized as a way to incorporate lay citizens as stakeholders, participation in such processes takes time and expertise that many citizens do not have. As a result, nonprofit leaders are …
Strategic use of evidence in state-level policymaking
The intermediary roles of foundations in the policy process
Do Residents of Low-Income Communities Trust Organizations to Speak on Their Behalf? Differences by Organizational Type
Low-income people of color in urban communities have been found to suffer from high levels of political inequality and poor political representation. To make policy more responsive and accountable, neighborhood organizations are often solicited to serve as informal community representatives in local decision-making processes. Given this reliance on nonelected representatives, we ask, Do community residents believe neighborhood organizations are l…
Building Knowledge to Support Human Service Organizational and Management Practice
Leaders of human service organizations (HSOs) face significant pressures from policymakers and funders to justify practices and ensure successful outcomes, an issue that has implications for social work practitioners and evidence-informed management practice. Although empirical research has advanced understanding of the factors that improve human service effectiveness and organizational improvement, considerable research-to-practice gaps exist an…
How Structural Variations in Collaborative Governance Networks Influence Advocacy Involvement and Outcomes
Collaborative governance is intended to solve complex problems and promote democratic outcomes by connecting ground‐level stakeholders with government. In order for these goals to be met, however, participants must have meaningful influence and opportunities for voice. Using national survey data from Continuums of Care (CoCs) mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this article investigates what structural characteristic…
Decision-Making in Collaborative Governance Networks
Participants may lose faith in collaborative governance processes if they do not perceive internal decision-making processes to be legitimate. Yet, understanding how to assess internal legitimacy and what network characteristics are associated with it has been an enduring challenge. In this article, we propose conceptualizing internal legitimacy as multi-vectored, contrasting input legitimacy—the degree of openness and access that participants ex…
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Homeless Services
Homeless services are plagued by resource scarcity and fragmentation, making the field a poster child for cross-sector collaboration-a policy trend where nonprofits and government come together to address problems that cannot be solved by one sector alone. The continuum of care (CoC) system mandates this-through coordination, regions are thought to be better able to integrate services to improve homeless outcomes. This study uses qualitative data…
Service Providers’ Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks
In fragmented policy areas, collaboration between government entities and nonprofit providers is thought to promote knowledge sharing and reinforce mutual accountability, hopefully improving performance. The popularity of this trend is matched only by the difficulties in actually meeting these multiplex goals. This is partly because there are both process (e.g., engagement and mutual learning) and outcome (e.g., effectiveness) goals that can work…
Impact, Equity, and Philanthropic Foundations
Philanthropic foundations in the USA have long wrestled with how to demonstrate they contribute to the public good in a democratic society given the outsized voice their wealth provides. Evaluating the work of their grantees is one way that foundations can demonstrate what that contribution is; the data drawn from evaluation are used to give accounts about the value of their work. Recently, foundations have confronted the evidence-based policy mo…
Standing Up for Nonprofits
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Frank R. Breul Memorial PrizeJennifer MosleyJennifer Mosley Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreWe are pleased to announce that the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize has been awarded to Yoosun Park and Michael Reisch for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humaniz…
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