ROBERT LONG is a program director in Philanthropy and Volunteerism, at the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. His responsibilities include developing
and recommending projects for funding, and administering funded projects. Before
joining the Foundation, Dr. Long served as McElroy Professor of Youth Leadership
Studies at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, where he also coordinated
the Division of Youth and Human Service Administration. Dr. Long is a founding
member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, a member of the
National Organization of Human Service, the American Education Research
Association, and the Association of Leadership Educators. Dr. Long received an
M.A. in program and facility administration and a Ph.D. in adult higher and continuing
education from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He previously served as a working
group facilitator for Salzburg Seminar Session 317, Non-Governmental Organizations in
Democratic Societies: Roles, Responsibilities and Obligations, 1994, and was a faculty member
at Salzburg Seminar Session 330 Building and Sustaining Democracies: The Role of Non-
Governmental Organizations, 1995.