Nonprofit Resources Catalogue
Policy Development
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Social Sciences Research
Links to resources related to specific data sources can be found in this section of the Nonprofit Resources Catalogue.

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Border Research Institute
Research into the problems of impoverished people living along the Texas-Mexico border.

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
This Center, at the University of Minnesota, conducts over 150 projects per year, linking University faculty and students with community groups and government organizations to adsress critical societal issues.

Communications as Engagement: a Communications Strategy for Revitalization
An on-line report on community revitalization from Millennium Communications Group; commissioned by the Rockefellow Foundation as the key component of its Common Enterprise initiative.

Fraser Institute
A Canadian source for free market solutions to public policy problems since 1974. Includes a searchable database of their publications.

IPRNET: The Information Service on Puerto Rican Issues
From the Institute on Puerto Rican Policy; includes policy analysis and civic participation research.

Independent Sector  [new]
Information, advocacy, and service for philanthropy, charities, and volunteerism.

Institute for the Study of Civic Values
Upgraded to the WWW; includes on-line papers and speaches related to building better communities.

National Association of Regional Councils
Bulletins, positions, and other information via gopher from regional policy-making and planning councils.

Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund supports and disseminates relevant, high quality research to improve the operations of nonprofit organizations and inform public policies affecting them.

Public Policy Network
From the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Includes the HHH PUBPOL Archives.

Rand Corporation
With on-line indexes such as Selected Publications, 1992-1993: Drug Policy and Selected Publications, 1992-1993: Human Resources.

San Francisco Urban Institute
Encouraging interdisciplinary approaches inpartnership with school districts, community-based organizations, labor and local, state and federal agencies.

Texas A&M University's Center For Housing and Urban Development
The Center for Housing and Urban Development engages in research and outreach activities mainly related to improving living conditions for impoverished Texas residents living in "colonias" along the Texas-Mexico border.

Twentieth Century Fund  [new]
Researching and writing about progressive public policy.

Urban Institute
A nonprofit, policy research organization established in 1968, the Institute's objectives are to sharpen thinking about society's problems, and to improve government decisions and their implementation.


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