Jessica Berrett

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Dr. Jessica Berrett is an Associate Professor in the College of Public Service at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and a Visiting Researcher at the Gradel Institute of Charity at the University of Oxford. She earned her PhD in Public Administration from North Carolina State University, an MBA with a concentration in nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship from Syracuse University, and a BA in Integrative Physiology from the University of Colorado Boulder. With 22 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, management, and consulting, her research examines nonprofit financial and performance management, with a particular focus on efficiency, overhead, fundraising, and philanthropy. She teaches graduate courses in nonprofit and public management, as well as an undergraduate course on exploring ways to engage with nonprofits. Dr. Berrett also serves as Associate Editor of Nonprofit Management & Leadership and co-founded the Early Nonprofit Scholars Fellowship Program to support emerging scholars.

• Financial management
• Efficiency and overhead
• Nonprofit management
• Performance management
• Philanthropy and fundraising

J. Berrett CV