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“Financing Nonprofit Growth: Exploring the Strategic Use of Mortgages, Loans, and Bonds "
Selected for the 2024 Nonprofit Management & Leadership (NML) Early Scholar Program
Currently Under Review
“The Landscape of Nonprofit Bond Finance using 990 Schedule K Data”
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“Does Bond Financing Crowd Out Nonprofits’ Operating and Program Expenses?”
“The Short-Term & Long-Term Impacts of Nonprofit Capital Investment on Program Outputs and Financial Capacity”
“An Experimental Test of the Impact of Bond Financing on Donors’ Intention to Donate” with Qiaozhen Liu and Peter Frumkin
“Testing What Financial Conditions are Necessary for Nnonprofits’ Revenue and Expense Growth using Necessary Condition Analysis”
with Bin Chen, Jiahuan Lu, and Weiwei Lin