community as well as information specific to the organization.
Citizen Participation and Voluntary Action Abstracts appeared originally
as a supplement to the first newsletter, bringing together a variety of resources
for researchers working in this interdisciplinary field. Volunteer Administration
was published by AVAS until 1982, and is now published by the Association of Volunteer
Administrators as the Journal of Volunteer Administration. The Journal
of Voluntary Action Research (JVAR), begun in 1972, was, for a long time, the
only scholarly journal focusing on all aspects of voluntary action research. In
1986 JVAR attempted to broaden its focus to include the rapidly growing field of
nonprofit study by adding a subtitle: Studies of Voluntarism, Citizen Participation,
Philanthropy, and Nonprofit Organizations. 1988 heralded a new publisher for
the journal, and an entirely new name- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
(NVSQ). More recently, theorganization has collaborated with the Indiana University
Center on Philanthropy on Research in Progress.

ARNOVA’s executive office moved from its original home at Boston College to Pennsylvania
State University, and then again to the Lincoln Filene Center at Tufts University
in 1986. In 1990 the office moved again to become loosely affiliated with the Department
of Adult and Youth Education at Washington State University. Continuing financial
problems and low membership throughout the 1980's caused Delwyn A. Dyer to convene
a Strategic Planning Committee in 1988. Following the committee’s recommendation,
the Board of Directors voted to change the organization’s name from the narrowly
focused Association for Voluntary Action Scholars to the more inclusive Association
of Researchers on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).

The planning process continued at a retreat on February 8-10, 1991, in Corpus
Christi, Texas. Board members focused