Jamie Levine Daniel
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Addressing Inequity and Othering in our Classrooms and Communities (aka How I went from studying organizations to starting one)
Dr. Jamie Levine Daniel is an associate professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Her research interests include nonprofit capacity, nonprofit finance, organizational identity, and public service delivery. Her initial focus on addressing antisemitism in the classroom led her to a broader research focus on equity and justice in process, policy, and process that involves knowledge co-creation with community partners.
Dr. Levine Daniel has a strong commitment to teaching her students how to demonstrate cultural competency, gain valuable communication and analysis skills that can be used beyond the classroom. She strives to provide inclusive environments for her students to feel comfortable in the growing and learning processes.
Dr. Levine Daniel's translation of research into creating more equitable and inclusive communities is another excellent example of how IUPUI's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.
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Item Op/Ed: Marion County health agency's SCOTUS case could end protections for most vulnerable(The Indianapolis Star, 2022-11-06) Hartsock, Jane; Bosslet, Gabriel; Levine Daniel, JamieThe Health & Hospital Corp. (HHC) v. Talevski case arises out of allegations that Gorgi Talevski, a disabled person with dementia who resided at a long-term care facility owned by HHC, was kept in physical restraints in violation of a federal law ― the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (FNHRA). HHC has responded not only that its use of restraints did not violate the FNHRA, but Talevski’s wife Ivanka (who is bringing the lawsuit on behalf of the estate of her now deceased husband) should not be able to sue at all. HHC goes so far as to argue the Supreme Court should overturn two existing rulings, which would mean that Talevski and other disabled patients would not be able to sue at all under the act. This request, if granted, would result in extraordinary damage to the rights, health and welfare of Hoosiers — and of all vulnerable Americans.Item With anti-Semitism on the rise again, there are steps everyone can take to counter it(The Conversation, 2019-10-19) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Benenson, Jodi; Fyall, RachelAs we work to train government and nonprofit leaders to address issues like anti-Semitism, we also have identified four simple steps that anyone can take to counter it.Item Op/Ed: Indiana abortion law won't improve health for Hoosiers, but will increase obstacles(The Indianapolis Star, 2022-08-05) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Bosslet, Gabriel; Zee-Cheng, JanineThe Indiana Senate passed Senate Bill 1 on Saturday (July 30, 2022), which will ban abortion in Indiana. The House is set to vote on it this week. A close examination of the bill and the fate of amendments proposed in the Senate’s legislative process demonstrate that this process does not appear to be motivated by improving health outcomes for Hoosiers, limiting the number of abortions in the state or representing the will of the majority of Hoosiers.Item Playing Offense: How Athletes are Impacting a Changing Administrative State(2022) Thomas, M. Blair; Levine Daniel, JamieThe start of the 2020s presents a broken American administrative system plagued by state ineptitude in a time of turmoil and government distrust. In their protests, marginalized citizens have seen their voices amplified by integral parts of their communities for whom they have cheered: Athletes. This Perspective draws attention to the idea of super citizens and their ability to influence policy. We argue that Black athlete activism that centers their social reality and legitimizes Black Lives Matter for broader populations is one example of a punctuated equilibrium that work to achieve administrative state change.Item Competition is on the rise: to what extent does traditional fundraising performance research apply in competitive environments?(2022-01-14) Walk, Marlene; Curley, Cali; Levine Daniel, JamieResearch on fundraising performance links organizational size, professional donor engagement, and legitimacy with fundraising outcomes. But can we assume the same factors will positively impact fundraising performance in light of increasing competition among nonprofits? This study explores whether and how traditional factors known to impact fundraising performance perform in the context of online fundraising tournaments, an environment that is explicitly competitive as those who lose drop out. Our analysis draws on data from 596 US nonprofits that participated in such tournaments. This inquiry addresses increasing competitive pressures placed on nonprofits as they likely cannot avoid competition in the future.Item Who gives, who gets, and how do we know? The promises and limitations of administrative data for cross-border philanthropy tracking(2021) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Feit, Galia; Hazan, OsnatCross-border philanthropy occurs across multiple dimensions simultaneously. Seemingly domestic actors become players in international spheres, shattering the idea of a domestic/international dichotomy with clear lines delineating these spaces. This line blurring obscures monetary flows and highlights questions regarding nonprofit accountability in a transnational context. We present a study tracking money from US INGOs to Israeli NGOs, demonstrating the advantages and challenges to a big data approach and highlighting the importance of local partners.Item Tangible Information and Charitable Giving: When (Does) Nonprofit Overhead Matter?(2021) Qu, Heng; Levine Daniel, JamieNonprofit organizations in the U.S. have been under pressure to demonstrate their “worthiness” by minimizing overhead costs. Prior experiment studies find that donors respond negatively to high overhead costs when overhead information is highlighted. In reality, donors receive all sorts of information about nonprofit organizations from various channels. While high overhead has been found to reduce donors’ perceived impact and charitable giving, providing other types of tangible information can increase giving by enhancing donors’ perceived impact. When other types of information are available, to what degree overhead aversion still exists? We use two online survey experiments to examine how information on overhead costs and donation use affect giving intentions to a hypothetical charity in a single-organization and two-organization evaluation setting. Only a small proportion of people demonstrated overhead aversion when presented with a single organization. There was stronger evidence of overhead aversion when participants were asked to compare and choose between two organizations. Providing tangible information about what donations can buy mitigated overhead aversion among male donors. This study contributes to the growing experimental research on the relationship between overhead ratios and charitable giving, and provides practical insights for nonprofits hoping to ameliorate overhead aversion and increase donations.Item What constitutes a new nonprofit? Investigating nonprofit organizational founding dates(2021) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Andersson, Fredrik O.We contend that the question of when a new nonprofit is founded has not been pursued with sufficient precision. Specifically, a fundamental challenge facing any nonprofit researcher planning to detect, isolate, and analyze new nonprofits is that nonprofit founding is a process, not a discrete event. We use administrative data that includes three different founding indicators from more than 4,000 arts organizations, supplemented with survey data from 242 organizations, to illustrate some of the problems inherent in treating the founding process as one discrete event. We also elevate the voices of founders to demonstrate their conceptualization of the concept and offer insights into the multidimensionality of founding.Item The Plantation’s Fall and the Nonprofit Sector’s Rise: Addressing the Influence of the Antebellum Plantation on Today’s Nonprofit Sector(2021) Gladden, Shonda Nicole; Levine Daniel, JamieThe legacy of the American plantation system of the Antebellum South is frequently examined for its influence on American government. However, we do not discuss at length its influence on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. We attempt to address this shortcoming by contextualizing the plantation narrative within the nonprofit sector. We then pose and start to answer three questions to provide a path forward for the sector to address current and future challenges. We conclude with a personal narrative in which we grapple with some of these questions.Item All earned revenue is not created equal: Revenue embeddedness as a framework for exploring crowding-in/crowding-out effects(2021) Levine Daniel, JamieNonprofit organizations increasingly rely on earned revenue to sustain their mission-driven activities. Previous research examining the effects of earned revenue on other income streams tends to study earned revenue in the aggregate. Using panel data from 12,372 organizations from 2010-2015, this analysis uses a framework of revenue embeddedness to link earned revenue activities to mission and analyze the effects of earned revenue activities on donations. Earned revenue activities offering new products or services to existing donors appear to complement individual donations. These findings have theoretical and practical applications related to how nonprofits pursue earned revenue.