Northwest Research

One of my favorite not very expensive resources is

NozaSearch

which I’ve reviewed in the past. Noza has now decided that foundation records (gifts given to foundations) are free for anyone, which is a great gift.

In addition Goodwin Deacon reported on the ‘L that Noza has bought GrantSmart, and is uploading its 990 information into the NozaSearch database.

Thanks Noza!

I get quite a few hits about international prospect research. I haven’t done a lot of international research, but two resources that keep being mentioned on the ‘L are

www.fresource.info

and

http://www.fundraisingresearch.info/

Both look very useful

I found this today

http://www.bizpubs.org/

The Alliance of Area Business Publications, an organization of over 70 publications dedicated to delivering customized regional business news to over 1.2 million business professionals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Australia, provides links to various small business publications all over the country. I found several business publications, with archives, that I hadn’t known existed.

Enjoy!

UPDATE–I WAS WRONG. Things are very hard to find with the new interface, but the Benmarking tool is still available at

http://bizstats.com/industry-financial-benchmark.asp

Bizstats

which has been an extremely useful tool for estimating small business net income to owner, has been sold to Bizminer.com. The company has changed the interface, and I previously reported that many of the previously useful tools were gone, but I was wrong and benchmarking is still available. Thank you Biztstats

Robert L. Weiner, a consultant who focuses on software and technology solutions for non-profits, shared his resources page on Prospect-l today. The page collects articles and information on donor databases, email marketing and online fund raising. I’m looking forward to diving into this and to sharing it with my clients. Thanks Robert!

I found

Access My Library

while I was looking for an obituary from a New Mexico Newspaper that wasn’t available either through my usual sources or the Multnomah County website.

As the service, which is a part of the Gale Group,

The Free Library

has recently added periodicals. I found it has a great number of business magazines, including the LA Business Journal from at least 1991 to the present. A wonderful and FREE! resource.

Here

Is a list of the publications available.

An interesting article about Silicon Valley Millionaires can be found here

“When chief executives are routinely paid tens of millions of dollars a year and a hedge fund manager can collect $1 billion annually, those with a few million dollars often see their accumulated wealth as puny, a reflection of their modest status in the new Gilded Age, when hundreds of thousands of people have accumulated much vaster fortunes.”

I received an very odd call yesterday about Allbusiness.com from a woman who identified herself as a journalist and researcher.

The person I spoke to appeared to believe that Allbusiness.com was somehow breaking copyright law. I’m still not entirely clear who this person was or why they were calling me.

However, a quick look at Allbusiness shows it has a business relationship with Reed Elsevier and Proquest, both major information providers and repackagers who aggregate thousands of journals and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal. Proquest is responsible for ABI-Inform as well as numerous specialty databases. Major companies like Proquest are usually very very careful about copyright infringement.

In addition, I would like to clarify that I received no compensation for reviewing Allbusiness.com on this blog. I put together this blog because it is more expedient than posting resources on the Prospect-L, the researchers’ listserv, and I hope that it will be helpful to people, especially people in the non-profit arena.

The following is a reprint of part of my review.

AllBusiness.com is an online media and e-commerce company that operates one of the premier business sites on the Web. Founded in 1999, the site has received critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business 2.0, Fortune, and other publications. AllBusiness.com helps entrepreneurs, small and growing businesses, consultants and business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world business questions and presenting practical solutions. The site offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a small business association and more.

Allbusiness.com is particularly useful for prospect researchers as it provides a great range of full-text searchable free business periodicals. I found an excellent biography of a potential donor from the October 2001 edition of Inside Business.

You do have to sign up, and make sure you don’t accidently deluge yourself with newsletters, but I think this is a wonderful resource.

Periodicals by title can be found here

http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/

And appear to go back quite a bit (for example the ABA Journal goes back to 1989). The search interface isn’t the best, but is adequate.

Enjoy!

The newest issue of APRA Connections is available to non-members for 30 days here

There is some great information and articles on data mining, and campaign screening!

Enjoy.