ABOUT CCSS
About the Center for Civil Society Studies
The Center for Civil Society Studies of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies is engaged in a wide variety of research and capacity-building activities designed to improve understanding of the role that philanthropy and nonprofit organizations play in modern society and to strengthen the capacity of these organizations to carry out their missions.
The Center is one of the foremost academic research centers in the world concentrating on the nonprofit sector and civil society issues. Building on the pioneering empirical studies of the American nonprofit sector conducted by its director in the early 1980s, the Center has extended its analysis to the international sphere, producing the first comprehensive comparative assessment of the size, structure, financing, and role of the nonprofit sector at the global level.
