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2002 Indiana Nonprofit Survey
The Survey of Indiana Nonprofits, completed in 2002, has been a joint effort by the Center on Philanthropy and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. It is designed to develop solid information on a broad array of topics about the more than 60,000 nonprofits of all types in the state of Indiana - charities, congregations, advocacy nonprofits and membership associations. This effort has also served as the baseline for our Nonprofit Capacity Assessment survey, currently underway.
A broad-based Survey Advisory Board is working with the project team to create linkages to related or complementary efforts, identify key policy implications of the survey findings, and insure effective dissemination of results as they become available. There are local advisory boards in several of the participating communities as well.
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For a look at our findings about Indiana nonprofits, see the executive summaries and papers listed below. We hope to have additional findings available shortly and will send a copy of the key findings to all respondents who requested it.
- Indiana Nonprofits: A Portrait of Religious Nonprofits and Secular Charities, Nonprofit Survey Report #7 (Executive Summary and Key Findings, with links to full report).
- Indiana Nonprofits: A Profile of Membership Organizations, Nonprofit Survey Report #6 (Executive Summary and Key Findings, with links to full report).
- Indiana Nonprofits: Affiliations, Collaborations, and Competition, Nonprofit Survey Report #5 (Executive Summary and Key Findings, with links to full report).
- Indiana Nonprofits: Managing Financial and Human Resources, Nonprofit Survey Report #4 (Executive Summary and Key Findings, with links to full report). Corrections to the first four pages of Appendix B added 9/13/2004.
- Indiana Nonprofits: Impact of Community and Policy Changes, Nonprofit Survey Report #3 (Executive Summary and Key Findings, with links to full report).
- Indiana Nonprofit Sector: A Profile, Nonprofit Survey Report #2 (Key Findings, with links to full report).
- The Indianapolis Nonprofit Sector: Management Capacities and Challenges, Preliminary Survey Report #1 (Executive Summary, with links to full report).
- The Role of Congregations in Providing Human Services (you will need a free copy of the Acrobat program to read this latter file).
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For a look at the profile of nonprofits in selected communities across the state, see the reports listed below. Using key findings from the Nonprofit Survey Reports #2 through #5 above, these reports compare nonprofits in the particular community to (1) nonprofits elsewhere in the state, and to (2) nonprofits in selected other metropolitan regions (or selected other non-metropolitan counties, as appropriate). Note, you will need a free copy of the Acrobat program to read these reports.
- Scott Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #12, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Abigail Powell and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Miami Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #11, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Kerry S. Brock and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Dubois Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #10, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Abigail Powell and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Cass Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #9, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Andrea Lewis and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Bartholomew Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #8, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Kerry S. Brock and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- South Bend Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #7, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Kerry S. Brock and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Fort Wayne Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #6, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Abigail Powell, Andrea Lewis and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Indianapolis Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #5, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, November 2006.
- Evansville Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #4, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg, Curtis Child and Patricia Borntrager Tennen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, June 2006 (revised November 2006).
- Muncie Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #3, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Patricia Borntrager Tennen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, June 2006.
- Northwest Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions.Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #2, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Patricia Borntrager Tennen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, February, 2006).
- Bloomington Nonprofits: Scope and Dimensions. Nonprofit Survey Series, Community Report #1, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child, Patricia Borntrager Tennen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, December, 2005).
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- Highlights the many important ways in which Indiana nonprofits contribute to the state and local communities.
- Lays the foundation for more effective collaboration among congregations, charities, civic organizations, and other types of membership associations.
- Establishes benchmarks for a variety of nonprofit management and organizational practices.
- Documents major nonprofit strengths and challenges and how those compare among key nonprofit fields of activity.
- Helps state and local leaders determine how best to support and strengthen Indiana nonprofits.
- Highlights regional differences and similarities among nonprofits located in different communities across the state.
The survey was designed to gather information about Indiana nonprofits that would allow for comparisons to a survey conducted for the Donors Forum of Chicago on Illinois charities, congregations, and advocacy nonprofits (excluding membership associations), using an almost identical survey instrument. For more information, please see Illinois Nonprofits: A Profile of Charities and Advocacy Organizations, by Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Curtis Child. (Chicago, IL: Donors Forum of Chicago, December 2003).
If you have questions about the survey, please contact the project director, Professor Kirsten Grønbjerg (812-855-5971 or kgronbj @ indiana.edu).
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If your nonprofit organization is one of the more than 2,200 Indiana nonprofits that have responded to the survey, we are very grateful for your participation and we THANK YOU for taking the time to do so. As promised, we have selected at random eleven nonprofit organizations that responded to the survey (roughly one per 200 respondents) to receive a $75 donation in appreciation for their participation in the survey. Click here for a list of the eleven respondents selected in this manner to receive the donation.
Updated: January 24, 2007
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