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!