Danielle Vance-McMullen

Dr. Danielle Vance-McMullen is an expert in donor behavior, fundraising, and nonprofit competition in new charitable giving contexts. Her current work in this area examines the rise of Giving Tuesday and the decline of workplace giving using big administrative data and behavioral experiments. Her article on Donor-Advised Fund giving during recessions was recently published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Dr. Vance-McMullen's research has also been featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Times' Fresh Research Podcast. Before completing her PhD in Public Policy at Duke University, Dr. Vance-McMullen was a consultant at The Alford Group in Evanston, IL, where she specialized in strategic planning, Board development, and fundraising audits and plans.

EDUCATION

• Duke University, Ph.D. – Public Policy, 2017
• Indiana University Purdue University – Indianapolis, M.P.A. – Nonprofit
• Iowa State University, B.S. – Marketing, 2005

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Faculty Research Grant, University of Memphis, 2018
• Horowitz Foundation Award, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, 2016
• Dissertation Support Fellowship, Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke University, 2014-15 and 2016-17
• Kenan Institute for Ethics Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, 2015-16
• Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Award, Duke University, 2015-16
• Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2014 and 2015
• Annual Conference Doctoral Fellowship Award, Association of Researchers on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations, 2014
• Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality 2013, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, The University of Chicago
• James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University, 2011 (4-year award)