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Finding the Needle in the Haystack: An Analysis of Search Strategies to Identify Community Development Corporations. The Urban Institute. Sheryl Romeo Linda M. Lampkin Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. ARNOVA November 2002 Montreal, Quebec. Why A Search Strategy is Needed.

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  1. Finding the Needle in the Haystack:An Analysis of Search Strategies to Identify Community Development Corporations The Urban Institute Sheryl Romeo Linda M. Lampkin Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy ARNOVA November 2002 Montreal, Quebec

  2. Why A Search Strategy is Needed • Charities of interest located in many codes • Incorrect coding • Categories too broad – need to narrow focus • Save time and improve search results The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  3. Community Development Corporations • Indigenous • Local • Comprehensive • Produce Tangible Results The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  4. “A private, non-profit, community-based organization that develops and/or finances housing, commercial, industrial, and community facilities; or business enterprises” The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  5. Sources of Information • National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED) • Forms 990 Filed with the IRS The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  6. Search Strategies • A Single NTEE Code • A Topical Cluster of NTEE Codes • Keyword Searching • Custom-Tailored Search The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  7. Datasets Created From • NTEE S20 Community, Neighborhood Development (1,566 organizations) • Housing and Community Development NTEE Major Groups (11,039organizations) • Keywords (7,105 organizations) • Keyword-NTEE Combinations (5,776 organizations) The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  8. Composition of the Datasets The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  9. Test for Accuracy The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  10. Test for Comprehensiveness The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

  11. Conclusions • CDCs, a poorly defined group, are best found in the Form 990 database by a combination of NTEE and keyword searching • Similar approaches may help researchers increase the precision and comprehensiveness of their datasets. • Helps overcome limitations of the data • Identifies difficult to define organizational types The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

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