ChiaKo Hung is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the critical role of flexible financial resources in enabling nonprofits to adapt to evolving environments, providing insights for funders, practitioners, and researchers in philanthropy and financial management.

ChiaKo's work has been supported by funding from the Satell Institute, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the University of Pennsylvania, and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy. His research has been published in leading journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, VOLUNTAS, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Public Performance & Management Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Public Administration Review. His co-authored paper, “The Impact of Revenue Diversification on Nonprofit Financial Health: A Meta-Analysis,” was recognized as a top article by Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly in 2020, and his paper, “Institutional Constraints, Market Competition, and Revenue Strategies,” was highlighted by VOLUNTAS in 2023 for its foundational contributions to social enterprise research.

ChiaKo received the Emerging Scholars Award from the ARNOVA in 2020 and was twice nominated for a teaching award (2021, 2022) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He has also been recognized as a Penn Social Impact Doctoral Fellow (2017), an Ewha Global Fellow (2024-2026), and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Grantmaking Research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Before joining Penn, ChiaKo was an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He holds a PhD and MPA from Arizona State University and earned his MA from National Chengchi University in Taiwan in 2009.

Selected Publications:

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., 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., & Suykens, B. (2023). Donors' giving decisions toward nonprofit commercialization: Do commercial form and intensity matter?. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 34(2), 293-315.

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.