John M. Fulwider, PhD, CEPA

Change begins in conversation with your most important partner.

The Dayton Foundation went from near-anonymity to a major player in public-school revitalization and the nation's second-largest community grantmaker. The Lincoln Children's Zoo transformed its CEO's role to fuel fantastic financial success.

At the center of these stories: Transformational partnerships between the CEO and board chair. Every nonprofit should have a transformational partnership like these. Tragically… Show more

Change begins in conversation with your most important partner.

The Dayton Foundation went from near-anonymity to a major player in public-school revitalization and the nation's second-largest community grantmaker. The Lincoln Children's Zoo transformed its CEO's role to fuel fantastic financial success.

At the center of these stories: Transformational partnerships between the CEO and board chair. Every nonprofit should have a transformational partnership like these. Tragically, dysfunction locks too many nonprofit leaders in cycles of mutual agony. They survive by counting down the days until the sweet embrace of term limits takes them away.

This book provides the blueprint CEOs and board chairs need to stop counting down the days left and start counting up accomplishments. When they do, they'll stop surviving and start thriving, and their communities will thrive with them.

Changing the world really is better together. Show less

A guide to entrepreneur-focused economic development strategy and implementation.

Awesome Sauce (n.): The tasty topping through which nonprofit professionals achieve greater mission impact and personal fulfillment.

Nonprofit professionals, awesomize yourself with this book. If you want to achieve mission impact and personal fulfillment, this is the tool and inspiration to get it done.

The book gives you 25 projects you can launch in a week or less in the domains of:

Personal Growth
Productivity
Financial Sustainability
Organizational… Show more

Awesome Sauce (n.): The tasty topping through which nonprofit professionals achieve greater mission impact and personal fulfillment.

Nonprofit professionals, awesomize yourself with this book. If you want to achieve mission impact and personal fulfillment, this is the tool and inspiration to get it done.

The book gives you 25 projects you can launch in a week or less in the domains of:

Personal Growth
Productivity
Financial Sustainability
Organizational Operations
Board Governance Show less

This book chapter examines whether there are perceptual differences in how partisan identifiers think about the in-group and the out-group, and whether these judgments relate reliably to other attitudes and political behaviors. It appears in the edited volume, "Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies." Coauthored with Eric Whitaker.

Policy diffusion research pays virtually no attention to policy content. Yet we should expect content to shape the adoption of any policy—this is what legislators and policy makers, after all, fight about. Thus the extent and speed of diffusion likely critically depend on policy content, which the current literature virtually ignores. This dissertation shows how we can better understand policy diffusion by taking policy content seriously.