Web Site Links Researchers and Non-Profit Groups

January 27, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

A new Web site plays matchmaker between non-profit organizations with research needs and students and academics looking for projects.

Link — also the name of the new Stanford, Cal., non-profit group that runs the site — allows charities to post research projects that they would like to have conducted, which university students and academics can then search by topic. Research categories include arts and culture, civil and human rights, law, and poverty issues.

The project was founded by five graduate students who had worked in non-profit organizations or service-learning programs.

Link is testing its service in New York, the metropolitan Seattle area, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

To get there: Go to http://www.linkresearch.org.

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.