Brown has students in many of his classes conduct service learning projects with local non-profit organizations. Building on this work, Brown is launching a project to examine the management-related learning behaviors, and learning needs, of non-profit managers. This project is a partnership including undergraduate and graduate students as well as other faculty, and is being guided by a series of interviews with executive directors of local organizations. The long term goals are to publish the research in a peer-reviewed journals and build relationships that help local non-profits better meet the learning needs of their current and upcoming managers.