Laura Littlepage

Laura Littlepage, full time with O'Neill Bloomington since 2018, joined O'Neill at IUPUI and the Public Policy Institute in 1992. She is faculty advisor for the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. In addition, she is an affiliate faculty member of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Littlepage's professional experience includes being a senior researcher with the IU Public Policy Institute from 2000-2018, the administrative director for the Methodist Research Institute from 1999-2000, policy analyst for the IUPUI Center for Urban Policy and the Environment from 1992-1999, deputy director of the Office of Research with the Indiana Department of Commerce from 1990-1992, and policy analyst with the Division of Planning and Budget for the Indiana Department of Transportation from 1989-1990.

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Nonprofit Organizations
• Evaluation
• Service Learning
• Voluntarism
• Homelessness

Education

• MPA New York University (1980 — 1982)
• B.S. Indiana University Bloomington (1976 — 1980)
• HIgh school Stuyvesant High School (1973 — 1976)
• B.S Indiana University Bloomington

Selected Works

• "Don’t you want to stay? The impact of training and recognition as human resource practices on volunteer turnover," (with M. Walk, R. Zhang), Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 1-19 (2018)
• "Measuring Social Return on Investment: Lessons from Organizational Implementation of SROI in the Netherlands and the United States," (with M. Moody, N. Paydar), Nonprofit Management and Leadership, (2015)
• "Achieving the Partnership Principle in Experiential Learning: The Nonprofit Perspective," (with B. Gazley, T. Bennett), Journal of Public Affairs Education, (2013)
• "What about the host agency? Nonprofit perspectives on community-based student learning and volunteering," (with B. Gazley, T. Bennett), Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, (2012)
• "Service-learning from the supply side: Community capacity to engage students," (with B. Gazley and T. Bennett), Nonprofit Management and Leadership, (2012)
• "Does Public Service Motivation Matter in Volunteering Domain Choices? A Test of Functional Theory," (with D. Coursey, J. Brudney, J. Perry), Review of Public Personnel Administration, (2011)
• "What Drives Morally Committed Citizens? A Study of the Antecedents of Public Service Motivation," (with J. Perry, J. Brudney, D. Coursey), Public Administration Review, (2008)
• "Psychometric Verification of Perry’s Public Service Motivation Instrument: Results for Volunteer Exemplars," (with D. Coursey, J. Perry, J. Brudney), Review of Public Personnel Management, (2008)
• "Exemplary Volunteers: What Is the Role of Faith?" (with J. Perry, J. Brudney, P. Goff) International Journal of Volunteer Administration (2007)
• "Making a Difference in a Day: An Assessment of Join Hands Day," (with R. Christensen, J. Perry), Journal of Volunteer Administration, (2006)
• "Philanthropy, nonprofits, and the fiscal health of cities," (with M. Przybylski, M. Rosentraub), Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, (1996)