Joannie Tremblay-Boire

Joannie Tremblay-Boire is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy & Administration. Her research agenda can be organized into three broad streams, all focusing on how resource providers (governments, philanthropic foundations, and individuals) and nonprofits/charities/NGOs affect each other.

In one stream, she focuses on individual donors, how they decide which nonprofits to support, and what strategies nonprofits adopt to signal their trustworthiness (for example, self-regulation clubs). In a second stream, she focuses on philanthropic foundations and their impact on nonprofits. In the third stream, she focuses on government-nonprofit relationships, through both legislation and funding. Through these three streams of research, she aims to better understand the power dynamics and interdependence between nonprofits and their resource providers.

Prior to joining the School of Public Policy and Administration, Joannie was a faculty member at the University of Maryland and at Georgia State University.

• Seed grant from the Institute for Public Leadership, University of Maryland (2024)
• Emerging Scholar Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) (2020)
• William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for best article by an academic in the journal Public Administration Review (2016)
• Graduate Medal in the Social Sciences from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington (2015)
• Doctoral Fellowship from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) (2013)
• Penn Social Impact Doctoral Fellowship from the School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania (2013)
• J. Allen Smith Fellowship from the Department of Political Science, University of Washington (2009)
• Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (2009)

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

• Tremblay-Boire, Joannie. 2025. “Individual Determinants of Hypothetical Bias in Charitable Giving.”Nonprofit Management & Leadership, https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21660.
• Sanford, Anthony, and Joannie Tremblay-Boire. 2025. “Investor Reactions to Board Changes: Does Gender Matter?” Applied Economics Letters, 32.5: 693–696.
• Tremblay-Boire, Joannie, Aseem Prakash, and M. Apolonia Calderon. 2023. “Delivering Public Services to the Underserved: Nonprofits and the Latino Threat Narrative.” Public Administration Review, 83.1: 78–91.
• Fernandez, Kandyce, and Joannie Tremblay-Boire. 2021. “Raising Money for Government and Connecting Community: The Isomorphic Rise of Nonprofit Police Foundations Across the U.S.” Public Performance & Management Review, 44: 1422–1454.
• Tremblay-Boire, Joannie, and Aseem Prakash. 2019. “Biased Altruism: Islamophobia and Donor Support for Global Humanitarian Organizations.” Public Administration Review 79.1: 113–124.
• Bloodgood, Elizabeth, and Joannie Tremblay-Boire. 2017. “Does Government Funding Depoliticize NGOs? Examining Evidence from Europe.” European Political Science Review 9.3: 401–424.
• Tremblay-Boire, Joannie, and Aseem Prakash. 2017. “Will You Trust Me?: How Individual American Donors Respond to Informational Signals Regarding Local and Global Humanitarian Charities.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 28.2: 621–647.
• Tremblay-Boire, Joannie, Aseem Prakash, and Mary Kay Gugerty. 2016. “Regulation by Reputation: Monitoring and Sanctioning in Nonprofit Accountability Clubs.” Public Administration Review 76.5: 712-722.
• Tremblay-Boire, Joannie, and Aseem Prakash. 2015. “Accountability.org: Online Disclosure by U.S. Nonprofits.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 26.2: 693-719.
• Bloodgood, Elizabeth, Joannie Tremblay-Boire, and Aseem Prakash. 2014. “National Styles of NGO Regulation.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 43.4: 716-736.
• Bloodgood, Elizabeth, and Joannie Tremblay-Boire. 2011. “International NGOs and National Regulation in an Age of Terrorism.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 22.1: 142-173.