The Foundation Center Grants & Nonprofit Collection
Nonprofit organizations and other grantseekers in Florence county and the Pee Dee looking for funding sources now have a valuable new collection of resources at the Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library, which is the home of a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center of New York.
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(Core Collection Provided by the Foundation Center)
- Board Member's Book (2003)
- The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing (2007)
- The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2003)
- The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2008)
- The Foundation Directory (2008)
- The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (2008)
- The Foundation Directory, Part 3 (2008)
- The Foundation Directory Supplement (2008)Foundation Fundamentals (2008)
- Foundation Grants to Individuals (2008)
- Foundations Today Series (2008)
- Guía para Escribir Propuestas (2008)
- Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (2008)
- International Grantmaking IV (2008)
- Philanthropy Annual (2008)
- Securing Your Organization’s Future (2001)
- Social Justice Grantmaking II (2008)
Additional Reference Titles and Circulating Titles (items that can be checked out) are available.
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(Available within the Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library Only)
- The Foundation Directory Online Professional
- Updated weekly to keep you current, Foundation Directory Online provides the most comprehensive and accurate information on U.S. grantmakers and their funding activities.Top-tier intelligence on grantmakers and their grants.
- more than 92,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities
- Over 1.3 million recent grants
- More than 400,000 trustees, officers, and donors
- Over 441,000 IRS 990s--all keyword-searchable
- 39 search fields plus keyword search
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
- An online database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. It provides online access to accurate, up-to-date information on foundations that fund:
- Educational support – scholarships, fellowships, loans, and internships
- Students and graduates of specific schools
- Arts and cultural support
- Awards, prizes, and grants by nomination
- International applicants
- Employees/families of employees at specific companies
- Research and professional support
- General welfare and special needs
RECOMMENDED WEB SITES
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- Foundation Center (New York)
- The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants.
http://foundationcenter.org/
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Small Business Collection
Our special collection of material for small businesses and entrepreneurs was developed in cooperation with our Pee Dee partners. Located in the Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library, it consists of books, databases, periodicals, and recommended Web sites. We have two computers in the SBC area dedicated for online SBC resources.
- PRINT TITLES
- We have nearly one hundred books in the print collection. They include core
small business titles on accounting, finance, human resources, marketing,
and business law, as well as numerous books on how to start and run a
particular type of business.
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Click Here for Examples of Books
- Accounting and Finance for Small Business Made Easy (2004)
- Attracting & rewarding outstanding employees (2001)
- Business Plans that Work : A Guide for Small Business (2004)
- The Complete Guide to Buying a Business (2007)
- Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Book of Low-cost Franchises (2005)
- Financing Your Small Business: From SBA Loans and Credit Cards to Common Stock and Partnership Interests (2006)
- Getting Started in Entrepreneurship (2001)
- Guerrilla Marketing (2007)
- The Home-Based Business Kit : From Hobby to Profit (2005)
- HR for Small Business : From Hiring to Firing and Everything in Between (2005)
- The Law (in plain English) for Small Business (2007)
- Managing a Small Business Made Easy (2005)
- Marketing in a Nutshell : Key Concepts for Non-Specialists (2007)
- Tax Smarts for Small Business (2006)
- Ultimate Book of Franchises (2007)
Additional Reference Titles and Circulating Titles (items that can be checked out) are available.
- DATABASES
- Would you like an overview of a particular of industry? Do you need a list of potential competitors within a particular zip code or city? Our databases can help. They provide and an enormous amount of content for business oriented questions.
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Click HERE for a list of databases.
- Business and Company Resource Center
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment topics, with Newsletters ASAP and Predicast’s PROMT databases
- Articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4,000+ indexed titles; 2,900+ full-text)
- Investment and broker research reports
- Company and association directory listings from a number of sources
- Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share and more
- Twenty-minute delayed stock quotes
- General Business File ASAP
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For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical resource for business, management and investment topics
- Articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newspapers and newswires (3,300+ indexed titles; 2,600+ full-text)
- Investment and broker research reports
- Company directory listings
- Hoover's Online Business Information
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Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations. Hoover's editorial staff of some 80 editors and researchers brings vital business information and knowledge to its coverage, updating the site daily to bring our visitors and subscribers the most up-to-date business information in the industry.
- Reference USA
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ReferenceUSA compiles the most accurate database of nearly 13 million U.S. businesses, churches, associations, schools, physicians, government organizations, and corporations.
- Small Business Resource Center
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When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Access to Small Business Resource Center is like having experts on call 24 hours a day. Created by subject experts and a librarian advisory board and designed for success, nothing has been overlooked.
Small Business Resource Center -- perfect for public and academic libraries, chambers of commerce and small business development centers -- covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they're looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business."
Whether the aspiring businessperson searches by existing business topics, types, sample business plans or creating their own, search results will be returned quickly and are designed for easy readability and use.
- RECOMMENDED WEB SITES
- There are thousands of Web sites that the small business person or entrepreneur could go to for information. Which ones are best? We provide a list of high-quality sites with reliable, accurate information for particular needs.
Click HERE for a list of Web sites.
- Entrepreneur.com
- Plenty of free content, including inspirational articles from the magazine of the same name. Contains pages on marketing, franchises, human resources, technology, and more.
http://entrepreneur.com/
- Small Business Development Center of South Carolina
- The center provides management and technical assistance to small business owners and managers within a 15 county region, Florence county being one of them. They have an office at Florence-Darlington Technical College.
http://cba.winthrop.edu/sbdc/
- FindLaw for Small Business
- Well established legal site provides legal information on wide range of small business topics, including incorporation & legal structures, forms & contracts, and worker’s compensation.
http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/
- Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce
- Presents benefits of membership and other information, such as chamber programs and event calendar.
http://www.florencescchamber.com/default.asp
- SC Business One Stop (SCBOS)
- Excellent for understanding and meeting our state government’s requirements for doing business in South Carolina. The place to go for registrations, licenses, permits, and paying state taxes. Also has plenty of other helpful information about doing business in SC.
http://www.scbos.com/default.htm
- SC Department of Commerce : Entrepreneurship and Small Business Services
- Offers Starting a Business in South Carolina Guide. Financing opportunities are also found here.
http://www.sccommerce.com/smallbusiness.html
- SC Department of Commerce : Searchable Databases
- The communites database provides demographics and other important information about counties and communities in SC. The user-friendly interface is a big plus.
http://www.sccommerce.com/SearchDatabase.aspx
- SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business
- SCORE Volunteers are working or retired business owners, executives and corporate leaders who share their wisdom and lessons learned in business. Info and tools on everything from human resources management to financial planning.
http://www.score.org/
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Very useful demographic information for market research. “Your Gateway to Census 2000” contains an enormous amount of data collected from the year 2000, while Economic Census provides industry/sector info within specific geographic areas.
http://www.census.gov/
- Wall Street Journal Small Business
- Voice of business provides site worth going to. Be sure to click on “Small Business Link” for the monthly focus on a particular topic – previous months’ included.
http://online.wsj.com/small-business
- Yahoo Trade Associations
- Trade associations often provide valuable market research that pertains to their trade or industry. This site listed 175 associations.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Organizations/Trade_Associations/
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