Library: Not-for-Profit Companies: Articles

Articles

The most current information on non-profit business topics, as well as historical information, can frequently be found in magazine, journal, and newspaper articles. Below, find both Business databases and Specialized databases. Also included here are some key journals that are often cited in nonprofit literature.

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing for articles from international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Searches three ABI-INFORM databases: Dateline, Global, and Trade and Industry. Covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Search nearly 8,000 publications worldwide, almost 80% available in full text. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective from 1923-present. Full text coverage of the Wall Street Journal is also included from 1984-present.
Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing of articles with information on companies, markets and industries. Specializes in access to business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.
This innovative resource includes company profiles (with corporate parent/sibling relationships), industry rankings, products and brands, investment reports, industry statistics, financial ratios, case studies, and corporate chronologies and history. Coverage is from 1980-present.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing of articles with information on companies, markets and industries. Specializes in access to business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.
Provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. Subject areas include: accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Indexing and abstracting from 1965-present. Some cases indexing go back further than 1965. Updated daily.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window

Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries and contains approximately 30,000 citations. It is updated on a regular basis.

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers nonprofits in the field of education.
Containing over 1.3 million records with hundreds of additions a few times a week, ERIC is freely available through the U.S. Department of Education.

Non-Profit Donation Database
The database lists nearly 50 million donations to U.S. nonprofits, providing access to donor name, gift amount, donation type, gift year, recipient organization, etc. Customized mailing lists for more than 5,000 donors upon request. This database answers the question of who gives what and why."

Key Journals

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Weekly news journal of the nonprofit sector. Offers the complete contents of the new issue, an archive of articles since October 1997, and two issues worth of grant listings -- all fully searchable.

You can search the full run of this publication in: Academic Search Premier.

NonProfit Times
Bills itself as "The leading business publication for nonprofit management". You can search the full run of this publication in: Small Business Reference Library.

Philanthropy News Digest
A daily news service of the Foundation Center is a compendium in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.