Library Research Guides: SPEA Career Resources (2019): Nonprofit

Research Employers

Start by finding out about potential employers! These resources will give you information on nonprofit organizations that you need to be prepared for career fairs and interviews.

Gale Directory Library
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Online collection of premier directories providing information on companies, publishers, associations. Includes descriptions of associations, professional societies, and nonprofit organizations, at local, state, national and international levels.
Includes Associations Unlimited content, including the Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations, the Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S., and the Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations.
Yearbook of International Organizations
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Reference encyclopedia profiling international non-governmental (INGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) except for-profit enterprises.

Guidestar
An organization that collects, organizes, and presents nonprofit information.
Nonprofit Explorer
Use this database to view tax returns and see financial details - executive compensation and revenue.

Activities

Find out about recent projects of your potential employer by looking at their website, social media accounts, and searching for articles in these databases.

Nexis Uni
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Nexis Uni allows you to search through newspaper articles from a variety of sources.
Regional Business News
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This newspaper database provides full text coverage of regional newspapers that will help you find information on small, local non-profit organizations.
Includes full-text for more than 100 business publications, with full-text coverage dating back to 1990. Includes such titles as: Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

Community

Learn about the community that a non-profit serves.

SimplyAnalytics
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This tool allows you to research demographic information and spending habits for a geographic area.
Allows users to:
-Access thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.
-Develop interactive thematic maps and export high-resolution images to word processing or presentation software.
-Select, sort, and compare data across multiple locations and build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet for additional functionality.
-Explore historical census data to understand how regions change over time and use estimates and projections to analyze current and future trends.
-Make informed personal and business-related decisions by asking questions like “what are the social and demographic characteristics of my neighborhood?” and “where should I locate my retail store?”
Mintel Reports
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Look at reports such as the Green Consumer to find research about marketing to people that support your organization's mission.
Mintel Reports offers product and industry market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports may be downloaded as RTF (rich-text format) files; tabular data may also be saved as CSV (comma-separated values) files.

Access and downloading instructions:
1. All users will have to agree to the Academic permissions and prohibitions, which prohibits systematic copying, use without attribution, use for commercial purposes, or distribution to non-IUB students and employees.
2. After accepting the above permissions and prohibitions, you must create an individual profile in order to download reports.
3. Select "Log into your profile..." to create a new (or log into an existing) Mintel profile.
4. After logging in, downloading is available by either using the direct download option for a report or by using the My Presentations feature which also offers the direct download option for the report.

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