• Board Member’s Book (2003)
• The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing (2007)
• The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2003)
• The Grantseeker’s Guide to Winning Proposals (2008)
• The Foundation Directory (2008)
• The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (2008)
• The Foundation Directory, Part 3 (2008)
• The Foundation Directory Supplement (2008)Foundation Fundamentals (2008)
• Foundation Grants to Individuals (2008)
• Foundations Today Series (2008)
• Guía para Escribir Propuestas (2008)
• Guide to Funding for International and Foreign Programs (2008)
• International Grantmaking IV (2008)
• Philanthropy Annual (2008)
• Securing Your Organization’s Future (2001)
• Social Justice Grantmaking II (2008)

Additional Reference Titles and Circulating Titles (items that can be checked out) are available.

The Foundation Directory Online Professional

Updated weekly to keep you current, Foundation Directory Online provides the most comprehensive and accurate information on U.S. grantmakers and their funding activities.Top-tier intelligence on grantmakers and their grants.

• more than 92,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities
• Over 1.3 million recent grants
• More than 400,000 trustees, officers, and donors
• Over 441,000 IRS 990s–all keyword-searchable
• 39 search fields plus keyword search

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online (Available within the Library System Only)

An online database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. It provides online access to accurate, up-to-date information on foundations that fund:

• Educational support – scholarships, fellowships, loans, and internships
• Students and graduates of specific schools
• Arts and cultural support
• Awards, prizes, and grants by nomination
• International applicants
• Employees/families of employees at specific companies
• Research and professional support
• General welfare and special needs

There are thousands of Web sites that the small business person or entrepreneur could go to for information. Which ones are best? We provide a list of high-quality sites with reliable, accurate information for particular needs.

We have close to 130 books in the SBC print collection. They include core small business titles on accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, and business law, as well as numerous books on how to start and run a particular type of business.

• Accounting and Finance for Small Business Made Easy (2004)
• Attracting & rewarding outstanding employees (2001)
• Business Plans that Work : A Guide for Small Business (2004)
• The Complete Guide to Buying a Business (2007)
• Entrepreneur Magazine’s Ultimate Book of Low-cost Franchises (2005)
• Financing Your Small Business: From SBA Loans and Credit Cards to Common Stock and Partnership Interests (2006)
• Getting Started in Entrepreneurship (2001)
• Guerrilla Marketing (2007)
• The Home-Based Business Kit : From Hobby to Profit (2005)
• HR for Small Business : From Hiring to Firing and Everything in Between (2005)
• The Law (in plain English) for Small Business (2007)
• Managing a Small Business Made Easy (2005)
• Marketing in a Nutshell : Key Concepts for Non-Specialists (2007)
• Tax Smarts for Small Business (2006)
• Ultimate Book of Franchises (2007)

Additional Reference Titles and Circulating Titles (items that can be checked out) are available.

Would you like an overview of a particular of industry? Would you like to study some examples of business plans? Our databases can provide valuable information to complete these and many other small business tasks.

Business and Company Resource Center

For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment topics, with Newsletters ASAP and Predicast’s PROMT databases

• Articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4,000+ indexed titles; 2,900+ full-text)
• Investment and broker research reports
• Company and association directory listings from a number of sources
• Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share and more
• Twenty-minute delayed stock quotes

General Business File ASAP

For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
Comprehensive periodical resource for business, management and investment topics

• Articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newspapers and newswires (3,300+ indexed titles; 2,600+ full-text)
• Investment and broker research reports
• Company directory listings

Hoover’s Online Business Information

Hoover’s, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world’s top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations. Hoover’s editorial staff of some 80 editors and researchers brings vital business information and knowledge to its coverage, updating the site daily to bring our visitors and subscribers the most up-to-date business information in the industry.

Small Business Resource Center

When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Access to Small Business Resource Center is like having experts on call 24 hours a day. Created by subject experts and a librarian advisory board and designed for success, nothing has been overlooked.

Small Business Resource Center — perfect for public and academic libraries, chambers of commerce and small business development centers — covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. Startup and established businesses alike can find the answers they’re looking for from an easy-to-use interface that includes a “How To” menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions — including “How to start a small business.”

Whether the aspiring businessperson searches by existing business topics, types, sample business plans or creating their own, search results will be returned quickly and are designed for easy readability and use.

There are thousands of Web sites that the small business person or entrepreneur could go to for information. Which ones are best? See the link below for a list of high-quality sites with reliable, accurate information for particular needs.