Research Guides: Nonprofits and NGOs: Articles & Reports

Articles

Business Source Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
This is one of the best databases to search for scholarly literature on business research topics. The database contains indexing and abstracts for scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals back from 1886 to the present.
Business Abstracts with Full Text (H. W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
This is one of the main resources to search for literature on business topics. The database contains the full text articles of more than 500 publications dating back to 1995.
EconLIT [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
EconLIT is a literature database covering subject areas such as accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis ®.
Academic Search Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.

Conference Board - Giving in Numbers
CECP is intended to help companies with their giving strategy by providing benchmarking and analysis in the areas of societal/community investment, employee engagement, environmental social governance/sustainable business, diversity equity inclusion, and more.
Volunteering and Civic Life in America
This biannual report from AmeriCorps covers civic engagement trends in the United States utilizing the Current Population Survey Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement, the most robust longitudinal survey about volunteerism and other forms of civic engagement in the United States.
Center for Effective Philanthropy
The resources library of the CEP is intended to provide data and insights to help individual and institutional donors improve their effectiveness.
Center for High Impact Philanthropy
This research center at the University of Pennsylvania is focused on improving the use of philanthropic funds for social impact.
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy - Research
This school at Indiana University IUPUI states that they intend to "identify emerging trends, challenge conventional wisdom, and provide valuable insights into philanthropy with our cutting-edge research."
The Nonprofit Times
Whitepapers from "the leading business publication for nonprofit management".