Carl Milofsky received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California-Berkeley in 1975. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. He has taught at Richmond College-City University of New York, Yale University, and Bucknell University. His sociological research focus is on communities, organizations, and medical sociology. He has a long-standing involvement in research on nonprofit organizations. He was a founding member of the Program on Nonprofit Organizations at Yale. He has served as editor of the NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY and the VOLUNTARY SECTOR REVIEW. He has served on the board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). He has been author or editor of twelve books and more than eighty academic papers.