2006
Francie Ostrower, Attitudes and Practices Concerning Effective Philanthropy

2005
First Prize: Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

Honorable Mentions: Richard Chait, Bill Ryan, and Barbara Taylor, Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards; and
Steven Dubb and Gar Alperovitz of The Democracy Collaborative, Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems.

2004
First Prize: Marc Morje Howard, The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe

Second Prize: Marion Fremont-Smith, Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation

2003
First Prize: Benjamin Gidron, Stanley Katz, and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, editors, Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa

Second Prize: Lawrence Friedman and Mark McGarvie, editors, Charity, Philanthropy and Civility in American History

2002
First Prize: “Government-Nonprofit Relations in Comparative Perspective,” a special issue of the journal Public Administration and Development, with guest editors Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff and Derick W. Brinkerhoff. Other contributors to the issue are Lori Brainard, Juliet Musso, Arthur Goldsmith, Denis Bouget, and Philip Warin

Second Prize: Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs, co-authored by Professor Coralie Bryant and the late Professor Marc Lindenberg

2001
First Prize: Lester M. Salamon, Helmut K. Anheier, Regina List, Stefan Toepler, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, and Associates, Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, “Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector”

Second Prize: James E. Austin, Initiative on Social Enterprise, Harvard Business School, “The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed Through Strategic Alliances”

2000
First Prize: Richard A. Couto, University of Richmond, "Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and Democratic Prospect"

Second Prize: Burton A. Weisbrod and Cagla Okten, Northwestern University, "Determinants of Donations in Private Nonprofit Markets"

1999
First Prize: Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Minnesota, and Wolfgang Bielefeld, Indiana University, "Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty: A Study of Organizational Change"

Second Prize: Kirsten Grønbjerg, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, "Mapping Small Religious Nonprofit Organizations: An Illinois Profile"

1998
Paul Schervish and John Havens, Boston College, "Social Participation and Charitable Giving: A Multivariate Analysis"