New Database Lists Nonprofit Legal Sources

June 26, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute

Lawyers and scholars have a new resource to which they can turn as they conduct research on nonprofit legal issues.

The National Center on Philanthropy and Law at the New York University School of Law has created an online database that offers citations to more than 7,000 books, articles, and other secondary sources on nonprofit law. New citations are added weekly.

Jill S. Manny, the center’s executive director, says that, while the Internet has been an excellent research tool for primary sources, such as statutes, rulings, and cases, the Nonprofit Law Bibliography is the first comprehensive online index of secondary sources that includes materials published before 1975.

The bibliography was created with financial support from the John and Mary R. Markle and Surdna Foundations, in New York, and the Pew Charitable Trusts, in Philadelphia.

To get there: Go to http://ncpl.law.nyu.edu/ncplsearch.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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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.