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Search across the following databases: Communication & Mass Media Complete; Academic Search Premier; SocINDEX with Full Text; EconLit™ with Full Text, and APA PsycInfo,

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• Limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals under Limit your results.

The Boston Indicators Project is a source for local statistics and analysis of the role of nonprofits in communities in the surrounding area.

"[Charity Navigator rates] charities by evaluating two areas of performance: Financial Health and Accountability & Transparency. Our ratings show donors how efficiently we believe a charity will use their support today, how well it has sustained its programs and services over time, and their level of commitment to being accountable and transparent.

The Foundation Center and GuideStar have combined to establish this new 501(c)3 nonprofit.

• Grantseeker resources: funder data, nonprofit skills training, and more. Click on the Candid option to search for non-profit information.
• Foundation Directory Online Professional and Foundation Grants to Individuals are only available in person at the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library.

Explore Find a nonprofit, View forms 990, Learn about NCCS Data, and more.
National Center for Charitable Statistics, The Urban Institute.

Search for IRS 990 Filings by institution or keyword, State, Major nonprofit categories, or Org. Type. ProPublica.

“The Urban Institute is the trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States. We are a nonprofit research organization that believes decisions shaped by facts, rather than ideology, have the power to improve public policy and practice, strengthen communities, and transform people’s lives for the better.”

“The span of our network – from coast-to-coast and border-to-border – enables the National Council of Nonprofits to learn about developments directly from local charitable nonprofits in the field. With daily access to information through our network of state associations of nonprofits and state policy allies, we identify and track regional and national trends by aggregating information and supplementing it from multiple other sources.”

Search across the following databases: Communication & Mass Media Complete; Academic Search Premier; SocINDEX with Full Text; EconLit™ with Full Text, and APA PsycInfo,

• Click on Choose Databases (above the search boxes) to change the databases being searched.
• Limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals under Limit your results.

The Foundation Center and GuideStar have combined to establish this new 501(c)3 nonprofit.

• Grantseeker resources: funder data, nonprofit skills training, and more. Click on the Candid option to search for non-profit information.
• Foundation Directory Online Professional and Foundation Grants to Individuals are only available in person at the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library.

This Library of Congress research guide is designed as a starting point for locating primary and secondary resources relevant to the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors in the United States,

The Foundation Center and GuideStar have combined to establish this new 501(c)3 nonprofit.

• Grantseeker resources: funder data, nonprofit skills training, and more. Click on the Candid option to search for non-profit information.
• Foundation Directory Online Professional and Foundation Grants to Individuals are only available in person at the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library.

The primary resource for finding and applying for federal grants. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Search their database of open paid and volunteer positions at nonprofit and philanthropic organizations worldwide.