The quantitative data sources for NGO scholars are increasing, introducing new possibilities for our understanding of the global NGO population. The most frequently used data sources tend to privilege larger NGOs located in more politically open countries. We highlight two developments. First, we introduce a new Global Nonprofit Registry of Data Sources (GRNDS) dataset. GRNDS documents the information that governments collect and release to reveal variations in the data environment. Second, new sources of information from social media and donation platforms avoid the filtering and curation of reports from nonprofit regulators. These include Twitter, Google Trends, and new data from #GivingTuesday. Together, this richer information on cross-national variation in reporting and quickly available digital data should help research build a richer picture of the global NGO sector.

NGO 学者的定量数据来源正在增加，为我们了解全球 NGO 人口带来了新的可能性。最常用的数据源往往优先考虑位于政治更加开放的国家的大型非政府组织。我们强调两个发展。首先，我们引入了一个新的全球非营利数据源注册中心 (GRNDS) 数据集。GRNDS 记录政府收集和发布的信息，以揭示数据环境中的变化。其次，来自社交媒体和捐赠平台的新信息来源避免了对非营利监管机构报告的过滤和整理。其中包括 Twitter、谷歌趋势和来自#GivingTuesday 的新数据。一起，