National Research Organizations

An ever-growing number of think tanks and academic centers publish research studies about nonprofit management practices and about the nonprofit sector generally. Listed below are the organizations that publish high quality studies consistently.

• ARNOVA
• Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
• Brookings Institution’s Center for Public Service
• Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Policy Studies
• Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute
• Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
• CompassPoint
• Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University
• Independent Sector
• National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
• Pew Partnership for Civic Change
• Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy

For additional resources, we encourage you to use the Nonprofit Pathfinder, available on Independent Sector’s web site, or the Philanthropic Studies Index, administered by the Payton Philanthropic Studies Library at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.