22nd Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference

The West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference is an annual gathering for:

Emerging and leading scholars in the field

Emerging research and methodological problem solving

New data sources, new methods, new technologies

New findings about the nonprofit and voluntary sector originating in the western U.S.
Join us for this year's conference on Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th at the University of San Diego.

Friday, April 4th

Doors Open: 1:30pm

Program Begins: 2:30pm

Saturday, April 5th

Doors Open: 8:00am

Conference Concludes: 3:30pm

Agenda Coming Soon

The idea for the West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference (WCNDC) was the result of a conversation over beer in Tucson, AZ between Brint Milward, Helmut Anheier and Joe Galaskiewicz around 2002. Joe had recently moved to Arizona and Helmut to UCLA and were looking for some intellectual company. Joe had run a workshop in Minnesota where researchers doing nonprofit-related studies got together periodically to chat about their research, data, and trends in the field. Helmut had just relocated from the London School of Economics and run a similar workshop on data on philanthropy in Europe. The distance between schools is a little greater out here, but why not replicate the model that worked in Minnesota and London? No one ever associates the West Coast with nonprofits or voluntary action, but actually there were many scholars doing work on the sector west of the Rockies.

The conversation led to the first WCNDC in the spring of 2004 hosted by the Center for Civil Society and the then School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA (now the Luskin School) and co-sponsored by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Zeke Hasenfeld, Steve Smith, Robert Ashcraft, Kirsten Gronbjerg, Brint Milward, and Laura Deitrick were all early supporters and participants. We had 49 attendees from a variety of institutions, mostly in California and Arizona. It did not cost very much (just breakfast and lunch on Saturday) and people paid their own airfare and hotel and Friday night dinner.

The following hotels near the University of San Diego in San Diego, CA.

4200 Taylor Street, San Diego, California, 92110, USA
(619) 260-0607

Distance from USD: 1.3 miles
Distance from airport: 4 miles

4041 Harney Street, San Diego, California, 92110, USA
(619) 298-4707

Distance from USD: 1.7 miles
Distance from airport: 4 miles

2201 Hotel Circle South, San Diego, California, 92108, USA
(619) 881-6800

Distance from USD: 2.1 miles
Distance from airport: 5.5 miles

2151 Hotel Circle South, San Diego, California, 92108, USA
(619) 295-7600

Distance from USD: 2.2 miles
Distance from airport: 5.5 miles

Host or Publisher The Nonprofit Institute, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego