Sector Research
- Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement
- An international organization for fundraisers who specialize in research and information management.
- Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network
- Formed by a group of leading Canadian researchers with a long-standing scientific interest in language and literacy; helps Canada's leading minds to discover evidence-based ways to help children.
- Canadian Policy Research Networks
- A nonprofit, charitable policy think tank based in Ottawa with a voluntary board of directors that works to create knowledge and lead public dialogue and debate on social and economic issues important to the well-being of all Canadians.
- Canadian Social Research Links
- Provides a comprehensive, current and balanced collection of links to Canadian social program information for those who formulate Canadian social policies and for those who study and critique them.
- Centre for Voluntary Sector Research & Development
- Encourages original and applied research that is: dedicated to the voluntary sector; founded on practical co-operation between practitioners in the sector and members of the research community; and sustained by a commitment to social justice, democracy and diversity.
- Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies (CVSS) in the Faculty of Business, Ryerson University
- Enhances understanding of the voluntary sector by conducting research relevant not only to academics but also to policymakers and nonprofit managers and extending consulting and research services to nonprofit organizations.
- Institute for Research on Public Policy
- An independent, national, nonprofit organization seeking to improve public policy in Canada by generating research, providing insight and sparking debate that will strengthen the quality of the public policy decisions made by Canadian governments, citizens, institutions and organizations.
- Institute for Volunteering Research
- Develops links with bodies involved in volunteering research in England, the UK and other countries, with a view to sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas.
- National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating
- Developed by Imagine Canada in concert with Volunteer Canada to provide the statistics and resources developed from the 1997, 2000 and 2004 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (NSGVP).
- Nonprofit Library Commons at Imagine Canada
- The public information portal of Imagine Canada; hosts the Imagine Canada – John Hodgson Library and serves as Imagine Canada’s knowledge centre, a comprehensive one-stop shop for accessing Imagine Canada’s resources.
- Policy Research Initiative
- Conducts research in support of the Government of Canada's medium term agenda. Its core mandate is to advance research on emerging horizontal issues, and to ensure the effective transfer of acquired knowledge to policy-makers.
- The Research Data Centres Program
- Helps strengthen Canada's social research capacity and to support the policy research community; provides researchers with access, in a secure university setting, to microdata from population and household surveys.
- Social Policy in Ontario (Laurentian University)
- A tool for public reporting about social programs in Ontario. Combines the resources of faculty and students at Laurentian University with those of staff and volunteers at the Ontario Social Development Council (OSDC), and the Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO), to generate a 'macro' view of the human service system.
- Statistics Canada
- Produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country—its population, resources, economy, society and culture. In addition to conducting a Census every five years, there are about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life.
