Research Foundations

Working with a purpose 

1. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. (2025). Post-fire reforestation in the western United States: Lessons from 30 years of recovery.
2. ScienceDirect. (2024). Seedling survival and vegetation regrowth in burned conifer forests of California.
3. Wired. (2022). City trees save lives: How green spaces cool neighborhoods and reduce heat-related deaths.
4. UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions. (2023). Extreme Heat and Tree Canopy Inequity in Los Angeles County
5. The Nature Conservancy. (2021). Wildfire Resilience Funding and Community Benefits. 
6. TreePeople. (2023). Climate Gardening 101: Building resilience through urban forestry.
7. California Natural Resources Agency. (2023). Forest Stewardship and Climate Workforce Strategy Report.

 Seed the Change  

1. CAL FIRE. (2024). Wildfire statistics and defensible space guidelines. 
2. Brooks, M. L., et al. (2004). Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes: A BioScience Perspective 
3. USDA Forest Service. (2022). Wildland urban interface risk analysis.
4. Quinn, R. D. (1994). Fire ecology of a native California grassland. Journal of Range Management.

The Efficiency Gap

1. Bennett, B. J., Hall, K. D., Hu, F. B., McCartney, A. L., & Roberto, C. (2015). Nutrition and the science of disease prevention: A systems approach to support metabolic health. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1352(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12945
2. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (2023). California wildfire and forest resilience action plan. https://wildfiretaskforce.org/action-plan/
3. Carlson, A. R., Hawbaker, T. J., Mockrin, M. H., Radeloff, V. C., Bair, L. S., Caggiano, M. D., Meldrum, J. R., Alexandre, P. M., Kramer, H. A., & Steblein, P. F. (2025). Rising rates of wildfire building destruction in the conterminous United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(51), e2505886122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505886122
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2022). Chronic disease indicators. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.cdc.gov/cdi
5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023). National diabetes statistics report. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report
6. Dennett, J. M., Soltas, E. J., Goda, G. S., Thornhill, T. A., Werner, K., & Gonsalves, G. S. (2025). Enduring outcomes of COVID-19 work absences on the U.S. labor market. JAMA Network Open, 8(10), e2536635. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.36635
7. Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2025). National Disaster Recovery Framework. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/frameworks/recovery
8. Grossi, G., & Argento, D. (2022). The fate of accounting for public governance development. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35(9), 272–303. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2020-5001
9. Hartman, M., Martin, A. B., Lassman, D., & Catlin, A. (2026). National health care spending increased 7.2 percent in 2024 as utilization remained elevated. Health Affairs (Millwood, Va.). https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.01683
10. Hu, M., Le, M. H., Yeo, Y. H., et al. (2025). Diabetes prevalence and management patterns in U.S. adults, 2001–2023. Acta Diabetologica, 62, 2159–2170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-025-02572-6
11. Huang, X., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., & Chen, J. (2025). [Article title as shown in your PDF]. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2024.109620
12. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. (2022). Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. https://www.niddk.nih.gov
13. U.S. Forest Service. (2022). The rising cost of wildfire operations: Effects on the Forest Service budget. U.S. Department of Agriculture. https://www.fs.usda.gov
14. Yu, J., & Chaturvedi, E. (2025). California’s wildfire crisis and the future of planetary resilience. In A. Cilento, F. Penna, G. Antonelli, & E. Chaturvedi (Eds.), Planetary health: Laws, policies and science on the “One Health” approach (pp. 81–109). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90621-3_6

Navigating Revenue Diversification: Balancing Financial Sustainability and Mission Alignment in Small Environmental Nonprofits 

1. Berrett, J. L., & Holliday, B. S. (2018). The Effect of Revenue Diversification on Output Creation in Nonprofit Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective. Voluntas (Manchester, England), 29(6), 1190–1201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-00049-5
2. Bruder, I. M. (2025). From Mission Drift to Practice Drift: Theorizing drift processes in social enterprises and beyond. Organization Studies, 46(3), 385–407. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251314591
3. Bryson, J. M., & George, B. (2024). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations (5th ed.). Wiley.
4. Chikoto, G. L., & Neely, D. G. (2014). Building Nonprofit Financial Capacity: The Impact of Revenue Concentration and Overhead Costs. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 43(3), 570–588. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764012474120
5. Choi, S. Y. (2025). How Does Nonprofit Revenue Diversification Affect Revenue Volatility Before, During, and After External Economic Crisis? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640251316487
6. EPA. (2023). Climate change indicators in the United States. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators
7. Goldberg, L. (2018). Capacity Building for Collaboration: A Case Study on Building and Sustaining Landscape-Scale Stewardship Networks in the 21st Century. California Landscape Stewardship Network.
8. Hung, C., & Hager, M. A. (2019). The Impact of Revenue Diversification on Nonprofit Financial Health: A Meta-analysis. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(1), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018807080
9. Independent Sector. (2024). Health of the U.S. nonprofit sector annual report. https://independentsector.org
10. Irvin, R. A., & Furneaux, C. W. (2022). Surviving the Black Swan Event: How Much Reserves Should Nonprofit Organizations Hold? Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 51(5), 943–966. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640211057405
11. IPCC. (2023). Sixth assessment report: Climate change 2023. https://www.ipcc.ch
12. Mayer, W. J., Wang, H., Egginton, J. F., & Flint, H. S. (2014). The Impact of Revenue Diversification on Expected Revenue and Volatility for Nonprofit Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 43(2), 374–392. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764012464696
13. National Council of Nonprofits. (2023). Nonprofit impact matters: How America’s charitable nonprofits strengthen communities and improve lives. https://www.councilofnonprofits.org
14. National Philanthropic Trust. (2023). 2023 Donor-Advised Fund report. https://www.nptrust.org
15. Nonprofit Finance Fund. (2022). State of the nonprofit sector survey. https://nff.org
16. Nordin, N., Khatibi, A., & Azam, S. M. F. (2024). Nonprofit capacity and social performance: mapping the field and future directions. Management Review Quarterly, 74(1), 171–225. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-022-00297-2
17. Searing, E. A. M., Wiley, K. K., & Young, S. L. (2021). Resiliency tactics during financial crisis: The nonprofit resiliency framework. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 32(2), 179–196. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21478
18. Searing, E. A. M., & St. Clair, T. (2025). Nonprofit Revenue Portfolios and Exposure to Business Cycle Risk. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640251317639
19. Sledge, D., & Thomas, H. F. (2019). From Disaster Response to Community Recovery: Nongovernmental Entities, Government, and Public Health. American Journal of Public Health (1971), 109(3), 437–444. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304895
20. Sloan, E., Hajjar, R., & Davis, E. J. (2025). Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States. Ecology and Society, 30(1), Article art20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15862-300120
21. Throwe Environmental, LLC. ​ (2020). Bourne, MA Coastal Resilience Financing Assessment. ​ Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Network. ​ 
22. TreePeople. (n.d.). Urban forestry programs. https://www.treepeople.org
23. Walk, M., Curley, C., & Levine Daniel, J. (2022). Competition is on the rise: To what extent does traditional fundraising performance research apply in competitive environments? Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 32(4), 651–667. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21500
24. Wild Farm Alliance. (n.d.). Habitat on the farm. https://www.wildfarmalliance.org
25. Young, D. R. (2022). Resilience and the management of nonprofit organizations: a new paradigm /. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889736