EDITOR'S NOTES

• Date: 01 June 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21140
• Published date: 01 June 2015
• Author: Mark A. Hager

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Journal sponsored by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University.

EDITOR’S NOTES

NEWS FLASH: Nonprofi t Management & Leadership is now accepting manuscripts with up to

8,000 words of content—including the abstract, main text, references, tables, illustrations,

and appendices (everything). But that is not the only change afoot—read on!

On January 1, I assumed the editorship of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. I thank

Duncan Neuhauser for his guidance this past fall and winter as I prepared to take on the role.

Five members of the editorial board also completed their service on December 31: Wesley

Lindahl, Myles McGregor Lowndes, Jack Quarter, Margaret Wyszomirski, and Jenny Onyx. I

extend an offi cial and hearty thank you to these fi ve members for their guidance and support,

to which I can personally attest since I have served with them on this editorial board since

2009. I vacate the board as well, leaving six spots open. Duncan was also gracious in allowing

me to choose the six new members. I welcome  ad D. Calabrese (New York University),

Grace L. Chikoto (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Lewis Faulk (American University),

Robert L. Fischer (Case Western Reserve University), Beth Gazley (Indiana University), and

Rebecca Nesbit (University of Georgia) to the Board of Associate Editors for Nonprofi t Man-

agement & Leadership.

I thank the Mandel School at Case Western Reserve University for off ering me the oppor-

tunity to lead Nonprofi t Management & Leadership over the next three years. I have a deep

appreciation for Dennis Young and David Billis’ vision for an academic journal with one foot

fi rmly in practice, speaking to and providing a voice for practitioners in nonprofi t manage-

ment, leadership, and governance studies. I recall lauding the choice of Roger Lohmann as

new editor in 2000, and it was Roger who gave me my fi rst opportunities to do peer reviews

of manuscripts. I recall that Mel Gray asked me to write a letter of recommendation for his

quest to become editor in 2009, and it was Mel who invited me to the editorial board. I

made a point of spending time with Duncan Neuhauser at the 2012 meeting of the Asso-

ciation for Research on Nonprofi t Organizations and Voluntar y Action (ARNOVA) after he

had taken over as the fourth editor of Nonprofi t Management & Leadership earlier that year,

and to quiz him on his experience with the journal over the next two years. I feel poised to

follow the legacy of these editors in moving the journal into a new era.

Because, you see, I do not think that Nonprofi t Management & Leadership can aff ord to just

stay the course if it expects to be relevant and serve its core constituencies in the coming

years. I think that the environment has changed in two important ways since this journal

was founded in 1990. One, the modes for communicating with practitioners have expanded

substantially with the growth of the internet. Two, the fi eld of nonprofi t and philanthropic

studies has developed substantially, with more faculty members seeking quality outlets for

publishing their work. Let’s consider each briefl y.

Big Changes in Environment

First, there is the vision of Nonprofit Management & Leadership as a venue for bringing

research-based studies to serious practitioners of nonprofi t management. I fi rst heard this

vision articulated by Dennis Young when I was a graduate student. I have always accepted

the vision with a doe-eyed faith and naïveté while housing a nagging suspicion that few man-

agers of any stripe were spending time reading the current stylings off ered by the journal.