January 13, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
State Nonprofit Databases: Current Conditions and Future Directions, by Russy D. Sumariwalla, assesses the progress of efforts to build computer data bases of non-profit organizations, and calls for establishing a committee to steer the development of such compilations state-by-state. This paper, part of the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund’s “dialogue series,” summarizes the efforts of some organizations (such as the National Center for Charitable Statistics) to assemble data bases, and includes the responses to a survey that asked non-profit officials their views on gathering reliable information. Publisher: Aspen Institute, One Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 700, Washington 20036; (410) 820-5338; fax (410) 827-9174; http://www.aspeninst.org/dir/publications/publications.html; 70 pages; $10.
