David O. Renz is a

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and the director of the

Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest, the Heartland or the American Midwest) is one of the four List of regions of the United States, census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern c ...

at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the

University of Missouri-Kansas City A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

. He was the former executive director of the Metropolitan Council and the assistant commissioner of Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.

Education and career

David holds a B.S. in organizational communications, M.A. in

industrial relations Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor union, labor/trade unions, employer organ ...

, and a Ph.D. degree with a concentration in

organization theory Organizational theory refers to a series of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also seeks to explain how interrelated units of organiza ...

and

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, both from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

and taught at the

Hamline University Hamline University ( ) is a private university in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1854, Hamline is the oldest university in Minnesota, the first coeducational university in the state, and is one of five Associated Colleges of th ...

, University of St. Thomas and the

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. He has published in various journals including ''

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly ''Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on the nonprofit and voluntary sector. The journal's editors are Joanne Carman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Jaclyn Piatak (Univ ...

'' and '' The American Review of Public Administration'' and is the editor o
The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership And Management
().

External links

Dave Renz
at the

David Renz Biography
at Bloch School
David Renz, Editor Biography
at

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