Staying Informed in Social Work Practice: Nonprofits & Think Tanks

The Foundation is dedicated to helping vulnerable children and families. Their work includes Kids Count, a great source for demographic, education, health and safety data on children in the U.S.

The mission of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families (CIR) at the USC School of Social Work is to enhance the visibility and impact of research, education and outreach to inform decision-makers on policy issues affecting veterans and their families.

Issue Lab is where Candid collects, preserves, and shares research reports, whitepapers, evaluations, case studies, issue briefs, and more. Our knowledge base is published and/or funded by social sector organizations, and is one way that we connect people who want to change the world with the resources they need to do it.

The world’s largest database for public policy, with more than 3.2 million reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of more than 24,000 IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers. It includes over a million pages of premium content from leading publishers and restored from organizations that have disappeared.

Rand is a think thank and its site has free research reports and commentary on topics covering population & aging, child policy, health & healthcare, and substance abuse.