MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy
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Community Development
- Asset-Based Community Development Institute for Policy Research (ABCD) - Northwestern University
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html
The ABCD Institute produces practical resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets.
- Association for Community Design (ACD)
http://www.communitydesign.org
The ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning.
- Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
http://www.cnt.org
The CNT maintains a listserv for those interested in the latest developments in community development, in addition to other web-based resources.
- Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR) - Rutgers University
http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/research/comdev.htm
CUPR conducts research on the causes and consequences of urban poverty and evaluates associated public policies and programs.
- Community and Rural Development Center - Cornell University
http://www.cardi.cornell.edu
The primary research topics at the Center include land use, Main Street revitalization, community capacity, and economic development.
- Community Development Research Center (CDRC) - New School
http://www.newschool.edu/milano/cdrc/
With a focus on New York City, the CDRC publishes reports on community development strategies and policies intended to revitalize poor urban communities.
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
http://www.lincolninst.edu
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conducts research on issues of land policy and land-related taxation.
- National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)
http://www.nado.org
NADO provides advocacy, education, research and training for the nation's regional development organizations.
- NeighborWorks America
http://www.nw.org/network/
NeighborWorks America is a national nonprofit organization that works to revitalize communities through affordable housing opportunities, training, and technical assistance.
- NYU Furman Center
http://www.law.nyu.edu/realestatecenter/
The Furman Center is devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate development and housing.
- NYU Taub Urban Research Center
http://urban.nyu.edu
The Taub Urban Research Center serves as Wagner's hub for urban policy research.
- Pratt Center for Community Development
http://www.prattcenter.net
The Pratt Center for Community Development's website includes many resources, mostly focused on New York City.
- Woodstock Institute
http://www.woodstockinst.org
The Woodstock Institue's mission is to research, develop, and promote ways to bring economic resources to lower-income and minority families and communities.
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Education
- American Education Finance Association (AEFA)
http://www.aefa.cc
AEFA is a professional and academic association of those interested in understanding of means by which resources are generated, distributed, and used in education.
- American Institutes for Research (AIR)
http://www.air.org
AIR's publications on education policy span the field, from children's mental health to education finance to higher education.
- Annenberg Institute for School Reform - Brown University
http://www.annenberginstitute.org
The Annenberg Institute is a policy research center and technical assistance organization.
- Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution
http://www.brook.edu/data/brookings_taxonomy.xml?taxonomy=Education
The Brookings Institution's Brown Center conducts research on topics in American education, focusing on efforts to improve academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools.
- California Educational Research Cooperative
http://cerc.ucr.edu
The Cooperative is a research, development, and training center focused on improving school policies and programs, enhancing educational leadership, and developing effective strategies to solve problems confronting public school systems.
- Center on Reinventing Public Education
http://www.crpe.org
The Center on Reinventing Public Education studies major issues in education reform and governance in order to improve policy and decision-making in K-12 education.
- Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE)
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/crede/
CREDE is a research organization that is focused on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty.
- Center for the Study of Evaluation & National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
http://www.cse.ucla.edu
CRESST conducts research and development that improves assessment and accountability systems.
- Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management - University of Oregon
http://eric.uoregon.edu
Archived at the University of Oregon's College of Education, the website offers access to resources published while under a contract with the Education Resource Information Center system.
- Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
http://www.cpre.org
CPRE unites researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in an effort to improve elementary and secondary education through practical research.
- Economic Policy Institute (EPI): Education
http://epinet.org/subjectpages/edu.cfm
EPI has a special focus on policies that affect low- and middle-income workers.
- Education Commission of the States
http://www.ecs.org
The Education Commission of the States provides non-partisan information about education policy to help state leaders develop educational systems.
- Education Finance Research Consortium (EFRC) - University at Albany
http://www.albany.edu/edfin/
The EFRC is a collaborative research and policy analysis venture between the New York State Education Department, the New York State Board of Regents, and education scholars, researchers, policy makers and educational institutions in New York State and around the country.
- Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov
ERIC is a digital library of education-related resources.
- Eurydice
http://www.eurydice.org
Eurydice serves as an information network on education in Europe.
- Fordham Foundation
http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/global/
The Fordham Foundation supports research, publications, and action projects in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio and vicinity.
- Institute for Education and Social Policy
http://www.nyu.edu/iesp/
A joint effort between NYU Steinhardt and NYU Wagner, the Institute aims to preserve and strengthen city schooling by developing and advocating bold, workable solutions to critical problems of urban schools.
- Mathematica Policy Research: Education
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/education/
Mathematica researchers have examined K-12 education as well as higher education, with reports available online.
- Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/
The NYU Steinhardt Metro Center assists education, government, and community agencies in improving quality and ensuring equality in education.
- National Assessment of Educational Progress
http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Papers in the Economics of Education
http://papers.nber.org/papersbyprog/ED.html
The NBER offers recent papers submitted by academics, with archives stretching back to 2001.
- National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education - Columbia University
http://www.ncspe.org
The Center's program includes research, evaluation, conferences, publications, and dissemination on a full range of issues regarding privatization of education from pre-school to higher education, both national and international.
- New York City Department of Education
http://www.nycenet.edu
The NYC Department of Education's website includes information on its Panel For Education Policy.
- New York State Education Department
http://www.nysed.gov
The NYS's website includes School Report cards and other publications such as finance reports.
- North Central Regional Education Laboratory
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/
The Laboratory website includes current research publications as well as archived favorites.
- Program on Education Policy and Governance - Harvard University
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/
Publishes reports and studies on school reform policy.
- RAND Corporation: Education
http://www.rand.org/research_areas/education/
Research at RAND includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.
- Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/sihep/
The NYU Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy seeks to define and assess the critical challenges facing colleges and universities in the present era.
- Urban Institute: Education
http://www.urban.org/education/
The Urban Institute features papers evaluating programs and analysing education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act.
- US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov
Links to reports on all aspects of the ED's work, including student aid, legislation, statistics, school locator, and many others.
- WestEd's Policy Center
http://www.wested.org/pub/docs/245
WestEd's Policy Center provides research-based policy analyses of current trends in education reform.
- What Works Clearinghouse
http://www.whatworks.ed.gov
Established by the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the Clearinghouse is a central source of scientific evidence of what works in education.
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Labor and Employment
- African American Labor History Links
http://afscme.org/about/aframlink.htm
This website features a selection of links to online archives focusing on the history of African Americans in labor movements.
- American Institutes for Research (AIR): Workforce Research & Analysis
http://www.air.org/workforce/
AIR's publications on workforce focus on & analysis; equity analysis; organizational performance; skills assessment; team performance; and, usability engineering.
- Center for Labor Research and Education - UCLA
http://www.labor.ucla.edu
The Center for Labor Research and Education serves as a source of information about unions and workers to interested scholars and students.
- Kheel Center Labor Photos - Cornell University
http://www.laborphotos.cornell.edu
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives' photographic materials provide documentation of the nature of labor and management history.
- Industrial Relations Centre (IRC) - Queen's University
http://industrialrelationscentre.com
The IRC is one of Canada's leading university management development units for practitioners in industrial relations, human resource management, and organizational development.
- Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR) - UC Berkeley
http://www.iir.berkeley.edu
IIR brings together faculty from several academic departments at UC Berkeley and supports multidisciplinary research about labor and employment relations.
- Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) - MIT
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/iwer/
IWER conducts research on issues of work and employment. Its website provides working papers written by scholars at IWER and MIT Sloan School of Business.
- Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
http://www.lera.uiuc.edu/
LERA is an organization of professionals interested in industrial relations and human resources.
- The Labor Research Association
http://www.laborresearch.org
The Labor Research Association, based in New York City, is a non-profit research and advocacy organization working with trade unions.
- Mathematica Policy Research: Labor
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/labor/
Mathematica has examined operational and administrative issues related to the provision of services and financial support to help government agencies and nonprofit organizations provide services effectively.
- Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/
The Tamiment Library and the Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left.
- Warwick Institute for Employment Research (UK)
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/
The Warwick Institute offers a selection of publications and resources on the operation of labor markets in the UK, with comparative research on other European markets.
- WorksonWork - University of Minnesota
http://www.worksonwork.irc.umn.edu
WorksOnWorks is a database of citations to materials related to the field of industrial relations, including books, journal articles, working papers, proceedings, and web sites.
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Leadership and Management
- Alliance for Nonprofit Management
http://www.allianceonline.org
The Alliance for Nonprofit Management's website has a resource center that includes a database of alliance members.
- American Management Association
http://www.amanet.org
The American Management Association is a non-profit that provides a full range of management development and educational services to individuals, companies and government agencies. Most resources are for members only, but some free resources including limited set of publications are available.
- Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
http://www.arnova.org
ARNOVA is a forum committed to strengthening the research community in the emerging field of nonprofit and philanthropic studies.
- Center for Action Research in Professional Practice - University of Bath School of Management
http://www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/
The Center for Action Research in Professional Practice helps the individual practitioner develop skills of reflective practice and to help organizational members develop communities of inquiry.
- Center for Reflective Community Practice - MIT
http://crcp.mit.edu
The Center for Reflective Community Practice at MIT designs and implements projects which build the capacity of practitioner and community-centered cross sector teams.
- Echoing Green
http://www.echoinggreen.org
Echoing Green works to spark social change by identifying, investing and supporting the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch.
- Foundation Center
http://www.foundationcenter.org
The Foundation Center offers funding and nonprofit resource libraries in New York, Washington DC, and other cities and an informative website.
- Free Management Library
http://www.managementhelp.org
The Free Management Library offers a vast number of short articles on a variety of issues faced by managers.
- Give.Org
http://www.give.org
Run by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Give.Org helps donors make informed giving decisions and advances standards of conduct among organizations that solicit contributions from the public.
- GovLeaders.Org
http://www.govleaders.org
GovLeaders.org is a free on-line resource designed to help government managers cultivate a more effective and motivated public sector workforce.
- Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
http://www.geofunders.org
GEO's website gives nonprofit managers opportunities to share and learn from other nonprofit organization leaders.
- Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations - Harvard University
http://www.ksghauser.harvard.edu
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is a research center at Harvard focusing on nonprofit policy and leadership.
- James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership - University of Maryland
http://www.academy.umd.edu
The UM Academy of Leadership offers resources for business leaders, scholars, community activists, and others.
- Leadership for a Changing World
http://leadershipforchange.org
Partnered with NYU Wagner, the Leadership for a Changing World program hopes to facilitate a new dialogue about community leadership, one that encourages others to appreciate that leadership comes in many forms and from many different communities.
- Leader to Leader Institute
http://www.drucker.org
The Leader to Leader Institute's mission is to strengthen the leadership of the social sector.
- Nonprofit Genie
http://www.compasspoint.org/askgenie/
Nonprofit Genie at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services provides free information in the form of FAQs written by leading experts.
- Npower
http://www.npower.org
NPower seeks to aid nonprofits better use technology to fulfill their missions.
- NYU Library Resources: Public and Nonprofit Management
http://library.nyu.edu/wagner/management.html
Links to journals, periodicals, and research guides pertaining to public and nonprofit management research.
- NYU Research Center for Leadership in Action
http://wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/
The Research Center for Leadership in Action promotes practice-grounded, social science-based, interdisciplinary research that will help strengthen both the theory and the practice of leadership in public service.
- OMG Center for Collaborative Learning
http://www.omgcenter.org
The OMG Center for Collaborative Learning is an independent nonprofit research and consulting organization with a variety of online resources including reports and issue papers.
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Housing
- Center for Housing Policy
http://www.nhc.org/housing/chp-index/
The Center for Housing Policy works to broaden understanding of America's affordable housing challenges and examines the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.
- Housing Research Foundation
http://www.housingresearch.org
The Foundation's website features information on two issues: the revitalization of severely distressed properties and communities, and the challenge of providing supportive housing options for low-income seniors and disabled persons.
- Joint Center for Housing Studies - Harvard University
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is Harvard University's center for information and research on housing.
- Lusk Center for Real Estate - University of Southern California
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/lusk/
The USC Lusk Center for Real Estate seeks to advance real estate knowledge, inform business practice, and address timely issues that affect the real estate industry, the urban economy, and public policy.
- National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO)
http://www.nahro.org
NAHRO's members administer HUD programs such as Public Housing, Section 8, CDBG and HOME.
- KnowledgePlex
http://www.knowledgeplex.org
KnowledgePlex's wealth of data and publications are designed to support the efforts of practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and others involved or interested in the fields of affordable housing and community development.
- NYU Furman Center
http://www.law.nyu.edu/realestatecenter/
The Furman Center is devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate development and housing.
- NYU Taub Urban Research Center
http://urban.nyu.edu
The Taub Urban Research Center serves as Wagner's hub for urban policy research.
- Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center - University of Pennsylvania
http://realestate.wharton.upenn.edu
The Real Estate Center's publications include the Wharton Real Estate Review, a twice-yearly journal primarily aimed at real estate executives, analysts, public officials, and scholars.
- Urban Institute: Housing
http://www.urban.org/housing/
The Urban Institute analyzes policies, evaluates programs, and informs community development to improve social, civic, and economic well-being.
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
http://www.hud.gov
HUD's website includes a wide selection of publications on housing and other related topics.
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Public Finance and Financial Management
- American Accounting Association
http://aaahq.org
The American Accounting Association is the primary association of accountants in academics. Its website includes information on available grants and other pertinent topics for scholars.
- Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
http://www.fasb.org
The FASB is the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting and reporting.
- Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
http://www.gasb.org
GASB is designated to help improve governmental accounting and financial reporting practices.
- GuideStar
http://www.guidestar.org
Available for free for students, professors, and researchers, GuideStar's database provides detailed financial information on thousands of nonprofits.
- Institute of Management Accountants
http://www.imanet.org
The Institute of Management Accountants, a professional association, has some publicly available resources of interest to students.
- Rutgers Accounting Research Center
http://accounting.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University's Accounting Research Center has a large number of links to other accounting resources.
- TeachMeFinance
http://www.teachmefinance.com
TeachMeFinance provides simple explanations of concepts such as time value of money; annuities; bond valuation; internal rate of return; and, other terms commonly used in finance.
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Race and Diversity
- Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) - Stanford University
http://ccsre.stanford.edu
CCSRE researches on topics of race and ethnicity from both domestic and international comparative perspectives.
- Center for Institutional Diversity - University of Michigan
http://www.diversity.umich.edu/center/
The Center for Institutional Diversity is currently in development: it will allow leaders from a variety of fields to come together to develop the models, networks, and tools needed for a sustained engagement with diversity.
- Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) - University of Chicago
http://csrpc.uchicago.edu
CSRPC is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to scholarship and debate around the topics of race and ethnicity.
- Civil Rights Project - Harvard University
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu
The Civil Rights Project focuses on issues including affirmative action, criminal justice, electoral reform, education, and religion.
- Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) - University of Maryland
http://www.crge.umd.edu
CRGE explores the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference; the website includes a Intersectional Research Database.
- Diversity Research Institute - University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/divres/
The Diversity Research Institute links diversity research from different centers at UW.
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender - Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is a center of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship at Columbia.
- Mind, Culture, and Society Lab - Stanford University
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~mcslab/
The Lab conducts research on issues identity, racial bias, and social class.
- National Council for Research on Women
http://www.ncrw.org
The National Council for Research on Women is a network of more than 100 leading American research, advocacy, and policy centers with a growing global reach.
- NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/gender.sexuality/
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality conducts a broad interdisciplinary investigation of gender and sexuality.
- Project Implicit - Harvard University
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
This Harvard website allows users to participate in studies on implicit associations, one that are outside of conscious awareness or outside of conscious control.
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Social Entrepreneurship Centers and Foundations
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- Ashoka
http://www.ashoka.org
Ashoka, one of the largest organizations involved with social entrepreneurship, has invested in over 1,700 fellows in 60 countries.
- Business in Development Network
http://www.bidnetwork.org
Business in Development Network promotes poverty reduction through entrepreneurship in developing countries.
- Blue Ridge Foundation New York
http://www.brfny.org
Blue Ridge Foundation New York supports start-up nonprofit organizations in New York City.
- Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) - Duke University
http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/
CASE's current programs and activities fall into three broad areas: knowledge development and dissemination; MBA involvement in the social sector; and increasing awareness of the field.
- Draper Richards Foundation
http://www.draperrichards.org
Draper Richards Foundation provides start-up funds to selected social entrepreneurs annually for three years.
- NYU Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.nyu.edu/reynolds/
NYU's cross-university initiative is designed to attract, encourage, and train a new generation of leaders in public service.
- NYU Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/berkley/social.cfm?doc_id=1868
Based at NYU Stern School of Business, the Stewart Satter Program includes the Satter Social Entrepreneurship Fund, Social Entrepreneurship Courses, Initiatives and Research.
- Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
http://www.schwabfound.org
The Schwab Foundation does not provide grants; instead, it builds networks amongst social entrepreneurs and works with academic centers to publish case studies.
- Social Edge
http://www.socialedge.org
Social Edge is a program of the Skoll Foundation where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, philanthropists and other practitioners of the social sector connect to network, learn, and share resources .
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