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The Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC) was founded in 1991 by leaders of university-based nonprofit academic programs who wanted to share information and ideas to strengthen their programs and advance the field of philanthropic and nonprofit sector education within their institutions and beyond. NACC is a membership association comprised of academic centers or programs at accredited colleges and universities that focus on the study of nonprofit organizations, voluntarism and/or philanthropy. NACC is the first group entirely dedicated to the promotion and networking of centers that provide research and education in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. NACC is a global association member centers located both inside and outside the United States.

The mission of NACC is to support academic centers devoted to the study of the nonprofit, nongovernmental sector, philanthropy and voluntary action to advance education, research and practice that increases the nonprofit sector's ability to enhance civic engagement, democracy and human welfare. NACC's office is located at the Mandel Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

NACC fulfills its mission by 1) Providing leadership to strengthen existing centers, 2)Supporting the establishment of new centers, 3)Serving as a resource for sharing best practices, 4)Fostering collaboration among programs and centers, 5) Developing creative approaches to researcher-practitioner collaborations, 6) Advancing universities' missions of teaching, research, and service through nonprofit studies, 7) Developing and promoting curricular guidelines, and 8) Identifying issues for NACC action on behalf of its members

NACC has developed curricular guidelines for degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels that has helped universities develop and implement a wide variety of educational responses to the growing number of stakeholders interested in pursuing this field of study.