The Nonprofit Academic Centers Council is an international membership association comprised of academic centers or programs at accredited colleges and universities focused on the study of nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations, voluntary action, and/or philanthropy.

• Providing leadership to strengthen existing centers
• Supporting the establishment of new centers
• Serving as a resource for sharing best practices
• Fostering collaboration among programs and centers
• Developing creative approaches to researcher-practitioner collaborations
• Advancing universities’ missions of teaching, research, and service through nonprofit studies
• Developing and promoting curricular guidelines
• Identifying issues for NACC action on behalf of its members