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Aspen
Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
Center
for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), University of Minnesota
Guidestar.org
Independent
Sector
Minnesota
Attorney General - Charities Division
Minnesota
Budget Project
The
National Center on Charitable Statistics
Rainbow
Research
Wilder Research
Aspen
Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
awards research grants and organizes convenings to expand knowledge
of the nonprofit sector and philanthropy, improve nonprofit
practices, and inform public policy related to nonprofits.
NSRF website: http://www.nonprofitresearch.org/index.htm
Center
for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), University of Minnesota
CURA is an
all-University applied research and technology center at the University
of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with nonprofit
organizations, ethnic and racial minority groups, businesses, rural
towns, inner-city neighborhoods, suburban communities, local
governments, and public agencies in Minnesota.
CURA website: http://www.cura.umn.edu/
Guidestar.org
In addition to its other products and
services, Guidestar.org provides a searchable, national database of
nonprofit financial information (IRS Form 990), provided by the
IRS. The service is easy-to-use and free of charge.
Guidestar website: http://www.guidestar.org
Independent
Sector
Independent
Sector is a national coalition of nonprofits, foundations and
corporations formed to strengthen nonprofit initiative, philanthropy
and citizen action. Independent Sector publishes a number of
reports on the sector, including the New Nonprofit Almanac,
produced in conjunction with the Urban Institute.
IS website: http://www.independentsector.org
Minnesota
Attorney General - Charities Division
The Minnesota Attorney General -
Charities Division has a number of resources on their website,
including sample forms, laws and policies. The site includes a
searchable database of Minnesota nonprofits which are currently
registered with the Attorney General's office.
Minnesota Attorney General, Charities Division website: http://www.ag.state.mn.us/charities
Minnesota
Budget Project
| The Minnesota Budget Project - an initiative
of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits - provides independent
research, analysis, and outreach on budget and tax policy issues,
emphasizing their impact on low- and moderate-income Minnesotans and
the organizations that serve them. |
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Minnesota Budget Project website: http://www.mncn.org/bp
The
National Center on Charitable Statistics
A
project of the Urban Institute, the NCCS gathers financial and
descriptive data on nonprofit organizational activities and works to
promote the highest standard of data collection. The NCCS
developed the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) to serve
as a common language for charitable organization classification and
to provide a better fit with the IRS's classifications for exempt
entities. The NCCS also publishes the State Nonprofit Almanac,
which includes statistical profiles for each state.
NCCS website: http://nccs.urban.org
Rainbow
Research
Rainbow Research's mission is to help
socially concerned organizations become more effective in their
efforts to build healthier, stronger, and more vital communities
through the following goals
:
to discover what works, good practices, and lessons learned in a
variety of community-building arenas, and get these findings into
the hands of those who can put them to good use, resulting in more
widespread use of these practices;
to build the capacity of socially concerned organizations, by
helping them improve upon their own and others' experiences with
community-building efforts, resulting in improved capacity for
communities and their organizations;
and to engage
whole networks, associations, and systems in exploring and
integrating principles of effectiveness, resulting in more
sustainable and more influential networks.
Rainbow Research website: http://www.rainbowresearch.org/
Wilder
Research
Wilder Research is one of the nation’s
largest nonprofit research and evaluation groups dedicated to
practical research in the field of human services. Wilder Research
works with more than 100 organizations each year to study the
effectiveness of their services and to understand trends and issues
that affect their work.
Wilder Research website: http://www.wilder.org/research/
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