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Research Projects
The Center
is one of the foremost academic research
centers in the world concentrating on the nonprofit sector and
civil society issues. Building on the pioneering empirical
studies of the American nonprofit sector conducted by its
director in the early 1980s, the Center has extended its
analysis to the international sphere, producing the first
comprehensive comparative assessment of the size, structure,
financing, and role of the nonprofit sector at the global
level.
The Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project is systematically analyzing the scope, structure, financing, and impact of nonprofit activity in more than 40 countries throughout the world.
The UN Nonprofit Handbook Project seeks to improve the visibility of the nonprofit sector in national economic statistics by promoting the global implementation of the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts.
The Listening Post Project identifies key trends and challenges facing the U.S. nonprofit sector and the innovative strategies nonprofits have adopted in response.
The Nonprofit Economic Data Project is a systematic effort to document and analyze employment in the private nonprofit sector in the U.S. both nationally and locally.
The New Governance Project has developed a set of materials on the "tools of government" that can help students as well as equip nonprofit, government, and business leaders to operate the many new tools of public action such as grants, contracts, loan guarantees, and vouchers, which are now in widespread use.
The International Fellows in Philanthropy Program provides research and study opportunities at the Johns Hopkins University for researchers in the nonprofit and philanthropic community throughout the world.
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Center Supporters:
The work of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies is supported by an extensive array of public and private funding sources throughout the world.
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