The links below are for resources of interest to advancement researchers or their peers. If you would like to recommend additional postings, please forward the information to Michel Hudson, CFRE, APRA-SW Webmaster. Advancement Collections Portico - Web Resources for Advancement Professionals http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico Internet Prospector http://www.internet-prospector.org/ Stanford University - Development Research http://www.stanford.edu/dept/OOD/RESEARCH/ Planned Giving Design Center Created to provide professional advisors and planned giving specialists with resources used to advise clients in matters of advanced charitable gift and estate planning. http://www.pgdc.com/usa/ Companies Dun & Bradstreet D&B Million Dollar Database provides detailed information on companies with $1 million or more in sales, OR 20 or more employees, OR branches with 50 or more employees. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. http://www.dnbmdd.com/ Farm Subsidy Database http://www.ewgactionfund.com/farm Free Erisa This is the primary source for the latest available pension and benefit information for U.S. employers. Using freeERISA.com, you can locate, view and download facsimiles of employers’ most recent form 5500, as filed with the United States Department of Labor. (Note: no longer a "free" service.) http://freeerisa.com/ HEP Matching Gift Register Contains profiles of nearly 9,000 companies that match gifts to nonprofits. Online and print products are available. http://www.hepdata.com/gift.cfm Hoovers Online Hoovers Online gives you company profiles, advanced searching, in depth financials, historical financials, full list of officers, and a full list of competitors. http://www.hoovers.com/ Market Watch Marketwatch.com - lots of new insider info - historical. You can set up portfolio trackers and news alerts. http://insider.marketwatch.com Oil Online Information on Oil and Gas companies including rig reports and oil prices. http://www.oilonline.com Ten K Wizard Free SEC Edger filing, full text search, downloads, and text alerts. http://www.tenkwizard.com Yahoo Finance Yahoo Finance contains public company information such as quotes, charts, splits & dividends, company profiles & financials, SEC filings, insider trades, and financial news archives. http://finance.yahoo.com/ Foundations Foundation Center Enter keywords to search the Web sites of more than 1,500 U.S. grantmakers by type (private, corporate, community, or grantmaking public charity), or all at once. You can also search for a foundation's tax return (form 990 PF) by name or Employer Identification Number (EIN). Tax returns are provided in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). http://fdncenter.org/ Giving USA Various products are available that document sources of funding, recipients, giving trends & benchmarking information. http://aafrc.org/gusa/ Guidestar GuideStar is a searchable database of more than 640,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. Type a name in the Charity Search box to find your favorite charity, or use the Advanced Search to find a charity by subject, state, zip code, or other criteria. http://www.guidestar.org/ Philanthropy News Digest Philanthropy News Digest (PND), a weekly 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. http://fdncenter.org/pnd/current/index.html Individuals American Medical Association The Doctor Finder allows you to locate a quick reference on a doctor and search according to his/her name. It provides basic identification of the individuals including their specialties. http://webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/home.html Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress This allows you a quick reference for finding biographies on members of the Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp Biography Resource Center Biographies on more than 320,000 people. Free trial available. http://www.gale.com/biographyrc/quick.htm Campaign Money Research http://www.campaignmoney.com Lawoffice.com This allow you to do a quick search for lawyers, but provides only basic identification information. http://lawyers.findlaw.com/ The Leadership Library http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/lloi.htm Martindale-Hubbell This site allows you to search for a specific lawyer or firm and provides brief summaries on partners and overall interests of their firms. It also lists Websites for the firms, which can lead to much more extensive bios on the lawyers. http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml NNDB An intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people  - both living and dead - determined to be noteworthy (beta). http://www.nndb.com Obituary Search http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp Roots Web The oldest and largest free online geneology site, supported by Ancestry.com. http://searches.rootsweb.com/ Zoom Info The search engine for discovering people, companies, and relationships. http://www.zoominfo.com Government State and Local Government Information A directory of official state, county and city government Websites. http://www.statelocalgov.net Political Money Line The Federal Election Commission records all receipts from individuals who contribute over $200. You can search for any name (or part of a last name) to find that individual's contribution pattern. It also inclues a directory of lobbyists, PACs and PAC donors. http://www.tray.com/ Public Records Directory Contains over 35,000 free searchable public records databases. http://www.searchsystems.net News Business Journals Provides links to each newspaper's home page, with news, information, and commentary from each American City market. 1,000 articles, news items, and columns added each week about local business from around the country. http://www.bizjournals.com/ Business Week National business news with search archives. http://www.businessweek.com/ Excite News searches and alerts. http://www.excite.com/ Individual Free news service with customized News Page delievered daily by e-mail and the Web. Contains business news from over 40 sources worldwide news and press releases for over 15,000 companies expert editors review all stories for urgency and relevancy. Unlimited access to headlines and briefs in all topics searchable access to the past 5-days new. http://www.individual.com/ Wall Street Journal Contains personalized e-mail alerts. http://public.wsj.com/tour/ Phone and Address Information FoneFinder Search USA and Canada telephone numbers. http://fonefinder.net/ Information Space You can find businesses and people worldwide, and it includes reverse lookups for phone numbers. http://www.infospace.com/ Information USA Contains access to a database with information on 200 million consumers and 12 million businesses. Great site for locating addresses when you only have a phone number. One can also specify industries with-in a specific zip code or other user defined criteria. It also has a Canadian directory. http://www.infousa.com/ Search Bug This site includes a people finder, company finder, SSN verification, e-mail verification and other useful searches. http://www.searchbug.com Search-It-All Has a variety of free search tools like mailing address verification, toll-free number searches, and find a person by phone number. http://www.search-it-all.com The Super Yellow Pages http://www.superpages.com Switchboard Additional searches include town directories and e-mail finders. http://www.switchboard.com/ The Ultimates Search Internet resources such as phone books, e-mail directories and trip planners. http://www.theultimates.com Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page World Pages http://www.worldpages.com/ Zip Code Data http://zip.langenberg.com Real Estate Christina Pulawski's (formerly Northwestern University) Tax Assessor Database http://www.pulawski.net   Home Fair Contains Salary conversion rates for specific regions of the United States. http://www.homefair.com Realtor Contains demographic neighborhood information. http://www.realtor.com/ Yahoo Real Estate The Home Price Check database contains over 20 million U.S. home purchase price records. The database is updated each week. A home transaction price is typically available 6 weeks after the close of sale. Historical coverage varies by state, but they have home prices for at least the past five years. Home Price Check will return the purchase price, sale date, and address of homes matching your search criteria. http://realestate.yahoo.com Search Engines AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/ Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com Excite http://www.excite.com/ Google http://www.google.com/ Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com/ Associations for Nonprofit Professionals Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement http://www.APRAhome.org Association of Fundraising Professionals http://www.afpnet.org/ Association for Healthcare Philanthropy http://www.go-ahp.org/ Council for Advancement and Support of Education http://www.case.org/default.cfm Discussions PRSPCT-L Pronounced "prospect el" - an electronic mail list provided as a forum for discussion of prospect research issues. The electronic nature allows discussions to take place in "real time" and thus serves as an important conduit of information for the profession. http://charitychannel.com/archives/PRSPCT-L.html  Steven Hupp's Prospect Research Blog http://stevenhupp.typepad.com/prospectresearch/ Sandra Larkin's Prospect Research Blog http://larkinresearch.blogspot.com/ Louisiana Links Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce http://www.lafchamber.org/ Louisiana Division of the Arts This site lists information on the arts including grants in the Louisiana area. http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/ Louisiana Association of Business & Industry http://www.labi.org/ Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association This site provides news and information on the oil and gas industry. http://www.lmoga.com/ Louisiana Board of Regents http://www.regents.state.la.us/ Louisiana Department of Education http://www.doe.state.la.us/ Louisiana Secretary of State Corporations Database http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/app1/paygate/crpinq.jsp Louisiana Library Database This database allow you to search for library reference for all libraries in Louisiana and is free to all residents. http://lalibcon.state.lib.la.us/ The Times (Acadiana Weekly Newspaper) http://www.timesofacadiana.com/ Real Louisiana.com (City Guide) http://www.reallouisiana.com Go Gulf Magazine The #1 magazine for the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas industry. http://www.gogulf.net/ Louisiana Land Records This database allows for interactive searches but owners name. http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/laland/laland.pl New Mexico Links New Mexico Arts http://www.nmarts.org New Mexico Department of Tourism http://www.newmexico.org New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board http://www.nmoca.com City of Santa Fe http://www.santafenm.gov State of New Mexico http://www.state.nm.us New Mexico State Library http://www.stlib.state.nm.us Albuquerque Journal http://www.abqjournal.com New Mexico Business Journal http://www.nmbiz.com New Mexico Business Weekly (daily e-mail headline alert) http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque New Mexico Magazine http://www.nmmagazine.com Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Connections Magazine http://www.santafechamber.com Santa Fe New Mexican http://www.sfnewmexican.com  http://www.freenewmexican.com Santa Fean Magazine http://www.santafean.com Santa Fe Assessor’s Office http://www.co.santa-fe.nm.us/assessor/tax/ Oklahoma Links Daily Oklahoman Free Archive search with subscription. http://www.newsok.com/ Journal Record Free Archive search with subscription. http://www.journalrecord.com/ State of Oklahoma http://www.ok.gov/ Oklahoma Living Free Archive searches on all articles. http://ok-living.com/ Oklahoma Press Association Links to Oklahoma publications. http://www.okpress.com/ Oklahoma Secretary of State This Website offers access for businesses. http://www.sos.state.ok.us/sooneraccess_news.htm Tulsa World Free Archive searches on all articles from 1996 to present. http://www.tulsaworld.com Oklahoma County Tax Assessor The county assessor is responsible for lists and maintains records on each piece of taxable real and personal property in Oklahoma County. Individual parcels now number close to 300,000 and cover an area of 720 square miles. http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/disclaim.htm Texas Links Arlington City Government http://www.ci.arlington.tx.us/ Dallas City Government http://www.dallascityhall.com/ Fort Worth City Government http://www.fortworthgov.org Texas Legislature Online www.capitol.state.tx.us Texas Records These records are separated by county. Among the information available here is birth records, death records, and divorce information. http://www.pac-info.com/list.php?nid=52 Dallas Morning News This is the connection to the newpaper online, its articles remain accessible for approximately a week and there is a fee if you want to do archive searches. http://www.dallasnews.com Fort Worth Star Telegram The online connection to the main newspaper in Fort Worth. http://www.dfw.com Texas Monthly "The National Magazine of Texas" includes archives back to 1973. http://www.texasmonthly.com Texas Newpapers This site does not cross reference every newspaper in Texas, but it does have several of the smaller markets. It also has links to college newspapers, plus TV and radio stations. http://www.usnpl.com/txnews.html Harris County Appraisal District Provides real estate information for the main county in Houston. http://www.hcad.org/ TaxnetUSA.com Provides real estate information for most counties in Texas. http://www.taxnetUSA.com/ Tarrant County Appraisal District The primary source for Real Estate information in Tarrant County (Fort Worth) http://www.tad.org Texas Appraisal Districts http://home.austin.rr.com/graf/ http://www.taad.org/hot_list_for.htm Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce http://www.fortworthcoc.org Funding Information Center of Fort Worth http://www.fic-ftw.org/ Tarrant County Medical Society http://www.tcms.org Tarrant County Bar Association http://www.tarrantbar.org/ Tarrant County http://www.tarrantcounty.com/