PMRA · 2001 – 2026 · 25th Anniversary

Twenty-Five Years of Building a Field.
Now We Build Its Future.

The 25th Anniversary Campaign for the PMRA General Endowment

Make a Pledge to the 25th Anniversary Campaign

Campaign Goal: $500,000  ·  Launching at PMRC June 2026  ·  Gifts accepted through December 2026

Think about where you were when you first encountered PMRA. Maybe it was a conference panel where someone finally asked the question you'd been circling for years. A conversation in a hallway that turned into a collaboration. A mentor who made time for you because this community made time for them.

That is what PMRA has built over 25 years — not just a professional association, but the intellectual home of a field. Now, as we mark this milestone, we face a question that every academic community eventually confronts:

What does it take to sustain something worth sustaining?

We believe the answer starts with you.

Why This Campaign

The financial ground is shifting.
Our field's needs are not.

Public management research has never been more needed. The questions our field asks — about governance, accountability, public organizations, and the people who run them — are pressing in ways that are hard to overstate. Our journals shape the literature. Our conference generates the conversations. Our networks produce the collaborations that advance the work.

Journal revenues that once underwrote the infrastructure of professional communities are declining. Institutional support is thinning. Associations that don't build independent financial strength now will find themselves constrained precisely when the field needs them most.

PMRA has been thoughtful stewards. Our endowment, managed through the Douglas County Community Foundation, supports operations, awards, and member programs. But to do in the next 25 years what we've done in the last, we need to grow it — meaningfully, sustainably.

Our goal is to grow the PMRA General Endowment by $500,000 in honor of our 25th anniversary. This is not a campaign for a building. It is an investment in the intellectual infrastructure of a field — the kind that doesn't make headlines but makes careers, shapes scholarship, and connects the researchers who advance knowledge about how public organizations work.

What Your Gift Sustains

The programs that define PMRA — and that PMRA makes possible.

The Annual Conference

PMRC is where careers are launched, collaborations are born, and the field takes stock of itself. Where junior scholars meet mentors, and where the work gets tested by the people who know it best.

Our Journals

JPART and PPMG are among the most cited outlets in public administration. The editorial infrastructure behind them depends on PMRA's financial stability.

Awards & Recognition

From dissertation awards to travel inclusion funds, PMRA's awards signal to the field what matters and open doors for scholars who might not otherwise walk through them.

Independence

An endowed association is a free association. Financial strength means PMRA makes decisions based on what's right for the field — not what's necessary for survival.

How to Give

Every gift becomes part of the permanent record of this anniversary.

Donors at all levels will be recognized as founding contributors to PMRA's 25th Anniversary Circle of Supporters. All gifts are tax-deductible and processed through the Douglas County Community Foundation.

TierGiftRecognition
Founder's Circle $25,000 Website · Conference · Newsletter
Leader's Circle $10,000 Website · Conference · Newsletter
Field Builder $5,000 Website · Conference · Newsletter
Anniversary Partner $2,500 Website · Newsletter
Research Champion $1,000 Website · Newsletter
Friend of PMRA $500 Newsletter
PMRA Advocate $250 or less Newsletter

Donors are recognized publicly unless they prefer to remain anonymous. Please indicate your preference when making your gift.

A word to those who built this

"I believe this field is worth investing in. I believe PMRA is how we do it together."

If you've been part of PMRA for a decade or more — if you served on the board, hosted a conference, edited a journal, or simply showed up year after year — you know what this community is at its best.

You've watched junior scholars become senior ones. You've seen debates that mattered and work that held up under scrutiny. This campaign is an invitation to make that continuity not just possible, but permanent.

Join the 25th Anniversary Circle

All PMRA PROGRAMS

PMRA's full range of programs

Public Management Research Association Fund — Provides support for the sustainable management of PMRA in the form of staffing, conferences, awards, and editorial assistance for our two academic journals (Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and Perspectives on Public Management and Governance). The Public Management Research Association Endowment

Claudia Avellaneda Global South Award — Supports an cash award for the author(s) of the best article on the global south published in JPART or PPMG every three years. The Claudia Avellaneda Award

Meier PMRC Doctoral Travel Award — Supports PhD students from underserved populations in the United States to attend and participate in PMRA conferences each year.  The Ken Meier PMRC Doctoral Travel Award

Riccucci-O'Leary Diversity Award — Supports an annual cash award for the author(s) of the best article on diversity published in JPART or PPMG each year. The Riccucci-O'Leary Award

Make a Pledge to the 25th Anniversary Campaign

 

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The next 25 years start now.

Help ensure PMRA continues to lead the field of public management research for the scholars who haven't arrived yet.

 

Make Your Pledge Today 

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Questions? Contact the PMRA Office at [email protected]

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