Tiana Marrese

Tiana Marrese

Assistant Professor

Publications

Volunteering Under Crisis: How Resource Perceptions Relate to Formal and Informal Civic Participation Before and During COVID-19

Published in Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2025

Our research builds on extant work to analyze the relationship between one’s resources and their propensity to report formal or informal volunteering before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recommended citation: Marrese, T., Handy, F., Cnaan, R., Choi, D. & Ferris, A. (2025). Volunteering Under Crisis: How Resource Perceptions Relates to Formal and Informal Civic Participation Before and During COVID-19. Nonprofit Policy Forum. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2024-0051
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From Service to Sector: Understanding Pathways into Nonprofit and Public Sector Employment

Published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2025

This study adds to extant literature by hypothesizing that early-adulthood volunteering serves as a pathway for emerging-career nonprofit and public employment.

Recommended citation: Marrese, T. & Handy, F. (2025). From Service to Sector: Understanding Pathways into Nonprofit and Public Sector Employment. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Who Volunteers at Refugee and Immigrant Nonprofits? Two Studies Exploring Volunteering at Nonprofits Serving Refugees and Immigrants.

Published in Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2024

This paper explores the differences between individuals that volunteered in refugee and immigrant domains relative to volunteers who engaged in other nonprofit domains.

Recommended citation: Ferris, A., Marrese, T., Cnaan, R., Choi, D. & Handy, F. (2025). Who Volunteers at Refugee and Immigrant Nonprofits? Results from Two Studies. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 16(2), 305-332. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2023-0066
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Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors: do grandparents’ environmental behaviors influence grandchildren?

Published in Sociological Spectrum, 2023

In this work, we analyze intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors within families through a nationally representative survey of young adults and their parents.

Recommended citation: Marrese, T., Greenspan, I., Katz-Gerro, T., & Handy, F. (2023). Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors: do grandparents’ environmental behaviors influence grandchildren?. Sociological Spectrum , 44(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2274021
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The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers and Donors in the US.

Published in Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 2023

This article details the experiences of those entrusted with the acquisition and retention of time and money for human service organizations during the pandemic.

Recommended citation: Choi, D., Ferris, A., Marrese, T., Cnaan, R. A., & Handy, F. (2023). The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers and Donors in the US. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 1-15.
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Book Review: The intersector: How the public, nonprofit, and private sectors can address America’s challenges, by Gitterman, D. P., & Britto, N.

Published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2023

In this review, I engage with The Intersector, a collection of more than 40 contributors highlighting the importance of cross-sector collaboration.

Recommended citation: Marrese, T. (2023). Book Review: The intersector: How the public, nonprofit, and private sectors can address America’s challenges, by Gitterman, D. P., & Britto, N. (Eds.). Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 52(4), 1134-1137.
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