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Melissa Middleton Stone

Director
Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center, Humphrey Institute

Melissa Middleton Stone is the Director of the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center at the Humphrey Institute. As an associate professor, she specializes in nonprofit management. She has researched the effects of state contracting on United Way agencies, intra- and inter-organizational governance, and the politics of planning in nonprofit organizations. She is an associate editor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership and frequently writes on nonprofit management issues for scholarly journals. Stone came to the Humphrey Institute from the Boston University School of Management where she taught management policy and developed core curriculum. She also has served as associate director of the Yale Program on Nonprofit Organizations, supervising budgets and administration of research grants and publications.

As founder of Family Connection in Anchorage, Alaska, Stone conducted statewide and national workshops on organizational planning and social policy development. As co-founder of Alaska Youth Advocates, she secured program funding, testified before legislative committees, and held national advocacy workshops. Stone also is a member of the Head Start Management Panel of Experts. She has a doctorate in organizational behavior from Yale University.