Database Indexes Nonprofit Research

December 2, 2012 | Read Time: 1 minute

The merger of two online resources has created a new database of more than 11,000 reports, case studies, and other documents on more than 40 causes that nonprofits tackle, including aging, immigration, and transportation.

The Foundation Center got the materials after it acquired IssueLab, a Web site that provides free access to research on pressing social, economic, and environmental problems and potential solutions. It has since integrated IssueLab into PubHub, the Foundation Center’s catalog of more than 7,000 annotated links to foundation-sponsored reports.

The combined platform, which will continue to use the IssueLab name, also includes all the studies published by Public/Private Ventures, a pioneering research and evaluation group that ceased operations in July.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.