Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

Emily Finchum-Mason


December 14, 2021

Nonprofits show resilience and initiative during second year of pandemic

Shelves of food in food bank

Kim Eckart UW News More than a year into the pandemic, Washington nonprofits have shown resiliency in serving their communities and staying afloat, a study from the Evans School of...


November 12, 2021

Ph.D. Student Emily Finchum-Mason piece published in the Conversation

​Evans PhD Student Emily Finchum-Mason recently published a piece in the Conversation discussing her research around community participation and stakeholder engagement in foundation grantmaking. The piece highlights how foundations engage…


August 25, 2021

Sharing Power: The Landscape of Participatory Practices & Grantmaking Among Large U.S. Foundations

August 25, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic and fights for racial justice highlighted questions about whether mission-driven organizations can effectively deliver on their social impact goals without engaging with the communities...


November 2, 2020

Local Impacts of a Global Crisis: How Washington State Nonprofits are Responding to COVID-19

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Erica Mills Barnhart Associate Teaching Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance Co-Director of the Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy


July 12, 2020

Emily Finchum-Mason + Team Receives 2020 ARCHITECT R+D Award for Work on ADUniverse, an App to Increase Housing Access

Evans School PhD student Emily Finchum-Mason, alongside project leads UW Associate Prof. Rick Mohler and the City of Seattle senior planner Nick Welch created a prototype app to help local...


May 17, 2020

UW Philanthropy Project

Bill Melinda Gates foundation lobby

The UW Philanthropic Project is a multiyear research program seeking to understand the many important roles that philanthropic foundations play in American society. Phase One of the UW Philanthropy Project...