ChiaKo Hung, MA, MPA, PhD

ChiaKo Hung is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on nonprofit financial management, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, fundraising management, and collaborative governance.

ChiaKo began his journey in nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship in the early 2000s while majoring in cooperative economics during his undergraduate studies. After completing a master’s degree in economic development and fulfilling a mandatory year of military service, he entered the technology industry in Taiwan for his first full-time job. However, after a couple of years, he realized his true passion lay in nonprofit finance. This realization led him to Arizona State University in 2014, where he redirected his focus back toward nonprofit management.

ChiaKo’s research has received funding from the Satell Institute, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the University of Pennsylvania, and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy. Notably, one of his research papers was recognized by Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly as part of the “Editor’s Choice” list of top articles from 2018–2019, and another was acknowledged by VOLUNTAS in 2023 as one of the most foundational and impactful landmark social enterprise articles since the journal’s inaugural issue. His research has been published in leading journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, VOLUNTAS, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Public Performance & Management Review, Public Administration Review, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

He received the Emerging Scholars Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action in 2020 and was twice nominated for a teaching award (2021 and 2022) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He also holds visiting and affiliate appointments: Visiting Researcher at the Gradel Institute of Charity, University of Oxford (2025–2026); Research Affiliate at the Center for Grantmaking Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; and Ewha Global Fellow at Ewha Womans University (2024–2026). He was previously a Penn Social Impact Doctoral Fellow in 2017.
Before joining Penn, ChiaKo was an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He earned his PhD and MPA from Arizona State University and completed his MA at National Chengchi University in Taiwan in 2009.

Selected Publications
Hung, C., Lu, J., & Hung, W. J. (2025). Are Donors Sensitive to the Price of Giving? A Meta-Analytical Assessment. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 1-19.

Suykens, B., Hvenmark, J., Hung, C., Raeymaeckers, P., & Verschuere, B. (2025). Trading Voice for Viability? The Impact of Marketization on Nonprofits’ Critical Voice. Public Administration Review.

Berrett, J. L., & Hung, C. (2024). Does revenue concentration really bring organizational efficiency? Evidence from Habitat for Humanity. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53(4), 974-996.

Hung, C., Tsai, C. C., & Wu, W. N. (2023). Organizational and environmental determinants of board performance in community-based human service nonprofit organizations. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 47(4), 279-296.

Hung, C., Hager, M. A., & Tian, Y. (2023). Do donors penalize nonprofits with higher non-program costs? A meta-analysis of donor overhead aversion. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 52(6), 1587-1608.

Hung, C. (2020). Commercialization and nonprofit donations: A meta‐analytic assessment and extension. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 31(2), 287-309.

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.