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Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit Organizations Research Materials
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.
Candid Search (formerly Foundation Directory and Guidestar)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Formerly known as the separate resources Foundation Directory and Guidestar, Candid Search combines these two sources to give you one powerful search of both non-profits and as the organizations that fund them.
Gale Legal Forms
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Description: Illinois Legal Forms includes thousands of business, personal, litigation and federal forms.
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 opportunities
- Volunteer Fox Valley – local volunteer opportunities listed through United Way
- 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 – add your organization to list of Fox Valley United Way’s list of partners looking for volunteers
- Volunteer Match – sign up to recruit volunteers
Local Nonprofit Resources
- Charitable Giving – Office of the Illinois Attorney General
- Charities Search – Office of the Illinois Attorney General
- Charitable Trust Grants
- Illinois Guide for Organizing Not-for-Profit Corporations
- Illinois Not For Profit Corporations Publications/Forms
- 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