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Guidestar (UMich Only)

Database of 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United States, including 10,000 foundations
Covers arts, the environment, communities, and health services
Searchable by organization name, subject, place, and category
To search for grant-providing foundations, use the IRS code: 501(c)(3)
Provides purpose of the organization, program reports and considerable financial information, including 990 reports from the mid-1990s (lobbying expenditures are on Line 85 of IRS form 990)

Gun Crime in the Age Group 18-20 (Treasury, Justice)

Short pdf report on gun possession, violent and non-violent crimes, time-to-crime, and illegal weapons by juveniles 18-20
Time series data and data for selected cities
Updated by the Youth Crime Interdiction Report for 2000, the latest available

Hate Crime Statistics (FBI)

Includes reports from 1995-2006
National data on hate crimes by motivation, type of offense, perpetrator, and victim
Includes total number of incidents by state
A microfiche version of the same title also provides city data and is located in the Documents Center as ASI Microfiche 6224-9

Henry A. Murray Research Center/Archive(Harvard & MIT)

Data base of 200 sociological surveys spanning the human lifetime
Ranges from causes of juvenile delinquency to participation in the women's movement to mental health over generations
Approximately one third of the files have abstracts which provide methodology, data, and a bibliography of related studies

Historical immgration data sources:

Historical Statistics on the Foreign Born Population of the United States (Census Bureau)

Resident foreign born population, 1850-1990
Tables include country of birth, mother tongue, race, age and sex at a national level
Nativity data (foreign v. native born) for metropolitan areas, counties, and 50 large urban areas

Homeless Fact Sheets

Estimates on the number of homeless in the United States and their socio-demographic characteristics
Each section cites further printed sources of information
Sponsored and data compiled by the National Coalition for the Homeless
See Demographic Statistics for additional data

Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated with the Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

Article appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (August 2, 2000)
Compares the 32 states which implemented a waiting period to purchase a gun versus those who had implemented a waiting period prior to 1994
Authors conclude that the Brady Law had no effect in curbing homicide or suicide, except for the suicide of people 55+

How Many Children Were Adopted in 2000 and 2001?(CWIG)