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STRAMGT 369 Social Entrepreneurship

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Find News & Journal Articles on Social Enterprises
Websites:
Key journals:

For more articles, also search Jackson eJournals.

Business literature databases:
Identify a Nonprofit
Database:
  • GuideStar [icon - GSB Network] (2 simultaneous users) - directory of nonprofits in the U.S., including 990 filings.

Online directory:

Selected list of winners of social enterprise awards:
Special reports
Print directories in the Reference Room. Notable titles are:

Learn About Corporate Givers

Website:
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
 

Write a Business Plan

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 

Prepare a Funding Proposal

Websites:
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

Find Cases on Nonprofit Organizations

Websites:

Search Cases and Research Papers in Jackson Library Catalog.

 

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