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Business Plans Handbook
Description
Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans. -site
Availability
Requires a JCLC card and residence in Birmingham, AL.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Description
Foundation Directory Online Professional provides subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a searchable database of the entire universe of over 92,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a searchable database of nearly 3,700 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; a searchable database of over 1.3 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 441,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.
 
Available only at the Central Branch of the Birmingham Public Library.
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Birmingham Public Library (Central) - In Library Use Only.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
Description
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online allows users to quickly search through detailed descriptions of more than 8,300 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. This unique online database — the only one devoted exclusively to the needs of individuals — is convenient and easy to use! Within seconds you can generate your own list of prospective funders.
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Foundation Maps Professional
Description
Foundation Maps is a data visualization platform for philanthropy. We partner with a wide variety of foundations and other organizations on custom projects that apply our technology to their particular field or interest, from Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy, which shows funding for democracy-related activities, to a custom interactive map that shows a real-time snapshot of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation’s grants approved in the past 3 years.--site Foundation Maps lets you:
  • Explore who is supporting your areas of interest by filters such as subject, geography, population served, type of support, organization name, and keyword
  • Get detailed information about funders, grant recipients, and grants
  • Discover new partners for collaboration>
  • Uncover trends, see networks, and monitor changes across the sector
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LegalForms
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Provides a wide selection of Alabama legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language. Also, via https://subscriptions.uslegalforms.com/gale/forms.html
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Requires a JCLC card.
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National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations, 31st Ed
Description
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations provides names, addresses, and annual income figures of more than 510,000 organizations. Entries cover all twenty-two of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service 501(c) subsections, as well as IRS sections 501(e), 501(k), and 4947(a)(2), as provided for in the 1954 Internal Revenue Code.
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Requires a JCLC card and residence in Birmingham, AL.
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