Jodi Sandfort

Publications and Presentations

• Published Journal Articles and Book Chapters
• Teaching Cases
• Written Works in Progress
• Key Note Speeches
  

My Writing and Research Focuses in a Few Key Areas

• Nonprofit and Government Relationships
• Human Service and Nonprofit Organizations
• Philanthropy
• Public Affairs Training
• Social Policy Analysis

Published Journal Articles and Book Chapters

* denotes academic peer-reviewed

Nonprofits – Government Relationships

* Sandfort, Jodi R. 2000.  “Moving Beyond Discretion and Outcomes:  Examining Public Management from the Front-lines of the Welfare System,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 10:4, pg. 729-756.

Human Service and Nonprofit Organizations

Sandfort, Jodi R. “Trying to Dance to Syncopated Rhythm:  The Dynamics of Government Funding for Nonprofits,” Nonprofit Quarterly, Fall 2004.

Sandfort, Jodi R. “Why is Human Service Integration so Difficult to Achieve?”  Focus, 23:2, pg. 35-8, Summer 2004. 

Philanthropy

Public Affairs Training

Social Welfare Policy Analysis

Adams, Gina, Kathleen Snyder and Jodi Sandfort.  Navigating the Child Care Subsidy System: Policies and Practices that Affect Access and Retention.  Policy Brief.  Urban Institute, Washington DC, March 2002.

Adams, Gina, Kathleen Snyder and Jodi Sandfort.  Getting and Retaining Child Care Assistance:  How Policies and Practices Influence Families’ Experiences.   Assessing New Federalism project (Occasional Paper Number 55) at the Urban Institute, Washington DC, March 2002.

Laura Kaye, Demetra Nightingale, Jodi Sandfort, and Lynne Fender.  Recent Changes in Massachusetts’ Welfare and Work, Child Care and Child Welfare Systems (State Update No. 5)” Urban Institute’s Assessing New Federalism project, Washington DC, July 2001.

Seefeldt, Kristin, Jodi R. Sandfort and Sandra K. Danziger.  Moving Towards a Vision of Family Independence:  Local Managers’ Views of Michigan’s Welfare Reforms.  Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy, University of Michigan, February 1998.

Teaching Cases

Nonprofit Management and Leadership multimedia case study: Making Work Pay! Improving Implementation of the Earned Income Tax Credit at AccountAbility Minnesota

Eichers Penkert, Catherine, Nicholas Dobbins, and Jodi Sandfort.  2009.  “Kujichagulia:  Actively Building a Public-Nonprofit-Community Partnership.” 1st place winner of international, double-blind  peer-reviewed competition.

Sandfort, Jodi R. and Timothy Dykstal, 2007.  “Trust as an Asset:  The MACC Alliance of Connected Communities,” Teaching Case – A and B segments. 1st place winner of international, double-blind  peer-reviewed competition.

Sandfort, Jodi R. 2005. “Case de Esperanza,”  Teaching Case – A, B, and C segments.  Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 15:3; 15:4; 16:1.

Also published at the Center for Women and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs and at the Electronic Hallway, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.

Written Works in Progress

With Jon Pratt, and Clare Mortensen.  “Seeing the Forest Through the Trees:  Tools for Helping Nonprofit Managers Understand their Fiscal Environment.”

“Reconstructing the Safety Net:  Investment Principles and Design Elements,” paper for meeting and book volume, Old Assumptions, New Realities:  Economic Security for Working Families, West Coast Peoverty Center, University of Washington at Seattle, September 2008. 

With Nicole Martin Rogers.  “Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Nonprofit Management Capacity.”      

 “Resistant Transformation:  One Faculty Member’s Journey toward Understanding Information Communication Technologies.” 

“The Development and Use of Multi-Media Teaching Cases in Public Affairs Classrooms,” National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) annual conference, Washington, DC. October 2009. 

“Defining and Tracking Effectiveness: Implementing Performance Management through Human Service Networks,” Public Management Research Association national conference, Columbus, OH (October 2009).

Key Note Speeches

With Jon Pratt, “Practical Leadership:  A Balanced Approach,” Nonprofit Leadership Conference,   St. Paul, MN (June 2009). 

Lunchtime Keynote Speaker, “Reassembling the Pieces:  Constructing Viable Performance Systems by Sharing Expertise,”  National Symposium on Accountability and Performance Measurement, sponsored by the American Society of Public Administration and Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Cleveland State University, Levine College of Urban Affairs (October 2008). 

 “Learning from the Master Gardeners:  Promoting Family Economic Security with the Tools of Community Action,”  Asset Building Strategies for Family Economic Security, edited by Robert Leland, ISED: Washington, DC., August 2006.