Jackson Library

Websites:

• Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)
• 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 list of winners of social enterprise awards:

• Fast Company/ Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards
• Enterprising Solutions Award winners: nonprofit organizations in the UK.

Special reports

• The NPT Power and Influence Top 50 :an annual list from the NonProfit Times of 50 distinguished leaders of nonprofit organizations
• The NPT Top 100: the annual list of the largest nonprofit organizations from the NonProfit Times

Print directories in the Reference Room. Notable titles are:

• San Francisco Business Times. Giving Guide catalog record
• National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations catalog record

Website:

• 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008 : an annual list of the large corporations contributing to the charity from Corporate Governance Officer magazine.

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 USA: an annual report from the Center on Philanthropy which offers detailed data on contributions by donor types, information on recipients, statistical tables on contributions by sources for the past 40 years and more. Also includes the listings of donors of gifts over one million. catalog record

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:

• The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of 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

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.

Search Cases and Research Papers in Jackson Library Catalog.