Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, ARNOVA, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (Washington, D.C., November 18), 2005
Honorable Mention, Mayor's Award for Civic Engagement (Bloomington, IN), 2004
Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis), 2001-2006
Outstanding Article Award, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2001
Honorary Mention, Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize, 1999
Academic Leadership Program Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 1998-1999
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 1997
"Architect, Advocate, Advisor" Tribute, United Way/Crusade of Mercy, 1996
Chairman's Award, United Way of Chicago, 1995
Distinguished Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, ARNOVA, 1995
Distinguished Service Award, Past-President (November 3), ARNOVA, 1995
Honorable Mention, Staley-Robeson-Ryan-St.Lawrence Prize for Research on Fund-Raising, 1994