Jackson Library

Websites:

• Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)
• Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards
• Bridgespan Group: Articles and Papers
• Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) - reports on markets, metrics, and management of social enterprises and social venturing.

Key journals:

• Nonprofit Times • catalog record
• Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Nonprofit Management & Leadership
• Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

For more articles, also search Jackson eJournals.

Business literature databases:

• ABI/ Inform Global 
• EBSCO Business Source Complete 
• Factiva 

Database:

• GuideStar (2 simultaneous users) - directory of nonprofits in the U.S., including 990 filings.

Online directory:

• Idealist.org - directory of worldwide nonprofits.
  

Selected lists of winners of social enterprise awards:

• Leadership Award Winners from Social Enterprise Alliance
• Fast Company/ Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards

Special reports

• The NPT Power and Influence Top 50 :an annual list from the NonProfit Times of 50 distinguished leaders of nonprofit organizations
• Online Giving: an annual survey of Internet giving from the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Print directories in the Reference Room: Non-profit Organizations section. Notable titles are:

• Giving Guide: A special supplement to the San Francisco Business Times • catalog record
• National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations • catalog record

Website:

• Million Dollar List - quarterly listing of corporate and non-corporate donors of gifts over one million.

Print publications are in Reference: Grants section. Notable titles:

• Corporate Giving Directory - Detailed profiles of 1,000 top corporate charitable programs across the U.S., indexed by type of grants and location. Also includes a list of Top 100 Corporate Founders  • catalog record
• Giving Guide: Special supplement to Silicon Valley /San Jose Business Journal

Also in Reference: "Corporations" section:

• 100 Best Corporate Citizens: An annual listing compiled by Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine on the U.S. companies which contribute to community, minority groups, and environment.

Websites:

• Bplans - a collection of free business plans including sample plans on starting nonprofits.
• Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income - samples of comprehensive business plans for nonprofit ventures in PDF format. Presented as free online companion to the book: Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies  • catalog record
• Social Enterprise Planning - instructions and templates for social enterprise business plan created by the Community Business Scotland Network.

Print publications in Reference: " Business Plans" section. Notable title:

• Model Business Plans: Includes chapter on writing a business plan for nonprofit ventures • catalog record 

Websites:

• Nonprofit Guides - Web-based grant-writing tools.
• Short Course on Proposal Writing - From The Foundation Center.

For books on proposal writing, search Jackson Library Catalog.

Try subject searches: "Proposal writing in research", "Proposal writing for grants", "Fund raising", and "Nonprofit organizations -- Finance".

Notable titles are:

• Grants for Nonprofit Organizations: a Guide to Funding and Grant Writing • catalog record
• A Concise Guide to Getting Grants for Nonprofit Organizations • catalog record
• Demystifying Grant Seeking • catalog record
• Getting Funded: a Complete Guide to Proposal Writing • catalog record

Websites:

• Worldwide Initiative for Grantmakers Support (WIGS) - e-version of the two-volume compilation of case studies, dealing with grantmakers' organizations and their experiences.
• Bridgespan Group: Case Studies - a compilation of free case studies on nonprofits.
• Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - selected cases from the Case Study Series in Social Entrepreneurship.

Cases and working papers - search Jackson Library Catalog.

Try keyword search: Social Enterprise. Notable titles are:

• Scaling Social Innovations: A Report From the Front Lines • catalog record
• Business Leadership Coalitions • catalog record