Nonprofit information
- GuideStar – World’s largest source of information on nonprofits
- Charity Navigator – Rates nonprofits on financial health, accountability, and transparency
- Great Nonprofits – Community-sourced stories about nonprofits, written by donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries
- ImpactMatters – Provides “audits” of nonprofits that have proven evidence of impact
Children & youth (U.S.)
- Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (University of Colorado) – Registry of evidence-based youth development programs and best practices to improve the lives of children
- Child Trends – Catalogue of programs that work and those that don’t for supporting kids
- KIDS COUNT – Premier source of data on children and family indicators in the U.S.
Violence prevention (U.S.)
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Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (University of Colorado) – Identifies the most effective programs that promote behavioral, mental, physical, and academic health and success
Global poverty
- GiveWell – Rates charities based on empirical data, cost-effectiveness, and capacity for increased funding
- Innovations for Poverty Action – Research on over 300 potential solutions to poverty
- Life You Can Save – Charities that aid the global poor vetted for record of effectiveness
- The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab – Database of over 850 publicly available randomized evaluations of programs found to be effective
Knowledge for smarter giving
- Giving Compass – Curates content from many expert sources, including the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, with the goal of sharing knowledge in order to create social change
- Root Cause Social Impact Research (SIR) – Reports on cause areas and topics for creating social change
- IssueLab (a service of Foundation Center) – Organizes research from social sector organizations on 30+ cause areas