Kimberly Wiley, Ph.D.

kimberlywiley@ufl.edu

Assistant Professor

University of Florida

Year of PhD: 2016

Phone: 3522733557

Address: University of Florida, Family, Youth and Community Sciences, PO Box 110310

City: Gainesville, Florida - 32611

Country: United States

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About Me:

Kimberly Wiley is an Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Community Development at the University of Florida. She earned a PhD in Public Administration from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, an MPA from University of Colorado Denver, and a BS in Family, Youth, and Community Sciences from the University of Florida. Kim brings with her thirteen years of nonprofit experience in the field of victim advocacy in local, state, and national organizations. 

Research Interests

Nonprofits

Public Administration

Public Policy

Text as Data

Domestic Violence

Feminist Methodologies

Countries of Interest

United States

My Research:

The intersection of public policy and nonprofit management is her main area of research. In a current research project, she is examining the impact of the 2015-2017 Illinois budget impasse on publicly-funded nonprofit organizations. She is an expert in domestic violence advocacacy organizations and their related federal, state, and local policy.

Publications:

Journal Articles:

(2018) Compassionate Bureaucracy: Assuming the Administrative Burden of Policy Implementation, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

The lens of administration burden is used to examine the behavior of nonprofit organizations when managing regulations attached to public funding and public policy implementation. Interviews with leaders of nonprofit domestic violence advocacy organizations dependent on public funding streams were qualitatively content analyzed to answer three questions. How do nonprofit managers respond to burdensome bureaucratic reporting measures when they are at odds? How do they determine when to comply and when compliance is not possible? What is the outcome for service recipients? The authors find that these nonprofit organizations simultaneously implement multiple public policies while absorbing the accountability costs. They do this to shield their clients from the laborious task of obtaining a spectrum of services across public systems.

(2015) Teaching social entrepreneurship in public affairs programs: A review of social entrepreneurship courses in the top 30 US public administration and affairs programs, Journal of Public Affairs Education

Social entrepreneurship uses a radically innovative way to address social problems, with sustainable financing and a scale that can be expanded for broader social impact. Social entrepreneurship courses have a growing presence in U. S. public affairs programs, but the content of these courses has not yet been mapped. For this paper, we reviewed 16 syllabi from courses taught in U. S. schools of public affairs and administration, largely from schools ranked in the top 30 nationwide in 2012 by U. S. News & World Report. We identified patterns in program approaches, course content, and evaluation methods in order to offer information to others who may be teaching these classes now or in the near future. We conclude that the confluence of values, skills, and knowledge offered by public affairs programs is highly relevant to students who endeavor to be social entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs at any level of government or nonprofit organization.