Association for sociologists devoted to the visual study of society, culture, and social relationships.

IASSIST bridges three communities: 1.social scientists who are producers and users of social data; 2.information specialists who preserve social data, manage facilities and provide services that promote the secondary use of social data; and 3.computing specialists who advance methods to analyze social data.

An international membership organization dedicated to fostering through research an understanding of the nonprofit sector, philanthropy and volunteerism.