Saerim Kim, PhD

Biography

Dr. Saerim Kim’s research focuses on the fields of public budgeting and financial management, nonprofit finance and management, collaborative governance, and homelessness issues. Her current interest involves understanding how cross-sectoral collaboration affects the performance of public service provision with special attention to financial resource composition and equity. Her studies have been published in Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Cities, Urban Studies, Journal of Public Affairs Education, and Korean Journal of Public Administration. Her co-authored publication, “Linking Practice and Classroom: Nonprofit Financial Management Curricula in MPA and MPP programs,” was selected as the Journal of Public Affairs Education Outstanding Article in 2020. She received a doctoral fellowship by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in 2017 and ARNOVA’s Emerging Scholar Award in 2016. She earned her PhD from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky and a Master of Public Policy from Georgia State University.

Awards

• ARNOVA’s Best Poster, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), November 2023
• ARNOVA’s Emerging Scholars Research Roundtables, 2021
• The 2020 Article of the Year, Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2020
• Co-Principal Investigator, Cash-less State Governments: Electronic Collections and Benefit Disbursements, The Council of State Governments, 2019
• Best Student Paper Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), 2017
• Doctoral Fellowship Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), 2017
• Emerging Scholars Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), 2016
• Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Fellowship Award, University of Kentucky, 2013

Professional Activities

Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP), Nonprofit Leadership Alliance

Recent Intellectual Contributions

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Kim, H., Kim, S., & Sullivan, A. (2025). Does merging mandated collaborative governance networks improve community-based community outputs? Public Management Review, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2025.2590476
• Combs, A. & Kim, S. (2025). Constraints and contributions: The effects of tax limits on education-supporting nonprofit revenue. Public Finance Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/10911421251385050
• Choi, Y. J., Kim, S., & Sullivan, A. (2025). Capitalization of social service nonprofit activities: Homeless service provider openings and home values. Public Management Review, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2025.2460762
• Kim, S. & Sullivan, A. (2024). The effect of merging mandated collaborations on performance in homeless services. Public Management Review, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2024.2329222
• Sullivan, A., Yeo, J., & Kim, S. (2024). Am I my brother’s keeper? A critical review of mandated collaboration research. American Review of Public Administration, 54(4), 323-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241229989
• Kim, S. (2024). Nonprofit revenue strategy and downside risk: Applying portfolio theory and extreme value theory. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53(4), 948-973. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231191792
• Kim, S., Kwak, H., Nwakpuda, E., Sullivan, A., & Fenley, V. (2023). social equity for wicked problems: Reducing racial disparities in homeless services. Public Management Review. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2246969
• Kim, S. & Sullivan, A. A. (2023). Connecting the composition of collaborative governance structure to community-level performance in homeless services. Public Administration Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13632
• Sullivan, A. A., Kim, S., & Lee, D. (2023). Applying organizational density to local public service performance: Separating homeless service outcomes from outputs. Public Management Review, 25:2, 262-285. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2021.1972682
• Kim, S., Sullivan, A. A., & Lee, D. (2022). Does local community effort relate to neighbors’ homelessness? Cities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103729
• Kim, S. & Sullivan, A. A. (2021). Complementary policies for multidimensional problems: Does the low-income housing tax credit complement homeless services in the United States? Urban Studies, 58(5): 903–921. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020941688
• Denison, D. V. & Kim, S. (2019). Linking practice and classroom: Nonprofit financial management curricula in MPA and MPP programs. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2018.1443690
• Jung, Y., Kim, S., & Lim, T. (2018). Risk aversion and sorting into public sector: Evidence from South Korea. Korean Journal of Public Administration, 56(1): 183–211.