Nonprofit Organizations
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AtoZdatabases
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, or finding friends and relatives.
Business Source Complete
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines, including nonprofit management. Includes Marketline SWOT Company Profiles and The Harvard Business Review.
Foundation Directory from Candid
Use at Home? No
Description: Helping nonprofits find funding faster: over 242,000+ grantmakers to build prospect lists fast, LinkedIn integration, and opportunities to collaborate with other nonprofits
Gale Courses
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. Learn a new hobby, improve your job skills, or your life skills. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks, and new sessions begin every month.
Courses teach skills including grant writing and nonprofit management.
Gale Legal Forms
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Illinois Legal Forms includes thousands of business, personal, litigation and federal forms.
GuideStar by Candid
Use at Home? No
Description: Comprehensive source of nonprofit information to easily find local nonprofits to donate, work, or volunteer at, and connect those in need to resources they rely on, such as food banks or shelters
LinkedIn Learning
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Courses include various nonprofit management, funding, and marketing topics.
Our library code is “scpld” (all lowercase).
Mergent Intellect
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coupling Mergent’s expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®’s Hoover’s™private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
Udemy
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Nearly 20,000 up-to-date online video business and technical courses, including 7,000+ courses taught by native speakers in more than 12 different languages. Udemy takes a learner-first approach so that users can select the instructor and content that best addresses their skills need and learning preferences.
Courses include various nonprofit management, funding, and marketing topics.
Winmo
Use at Home? Yes
Description: All the great advertising resources you loved from Redbooks, with the added strength of Winmo, bringing you even more advertising industry information to improve decision making. Includes email addresses for individuals at companies with national advertising or advertising agencies.
Nonprofit Organizations Websites
Looking to volunteer with a nonprofit?
- AmeriCorps – volunteer opportunities
- AmeriCorps – volunteer opportunities for seniors
- Idealist – volunteer opportunities
- Points of Light Engage
- Volunteer Fox Valley – local volunteer opportunities
- Volunteer Match – volunteer opportunities
Need to find volunteers for your nonprofit?
- Idealist – sign up to recruit volunteers
- Points of Light Engage – sign up to recruit volunteers
- Volunteer Fox Valley – sign up to recruit volunteers
- Volunteer Match – sign up to recruit volunteers
Local Nonprofit Resources
- Charitable Giving – Illinois Office of the Attorney General
- Charitable Trust Database
- Charitable Trust Grants
- Illinois Guide for Organizing Not-for-Profit Corporations
- Illinois Not For Profit Corporations Publications/Forms
- St. Charles Chamber of Commerce – list of local nonprofit organizations
- Starting a nonprofit organization – Illinois Legal Aid
Other Nonprofit Resources
- Charity Navigator
- NPO.net – Nonprofit job opportunies
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
- Tax Exempt Organization Search – IRS