tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203760542011-07-30T19:05:57.365-07:00Maryrose Larkin's prospect research blog, featuring new sites, tips and suggestions for donor research.Maryrose Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15858294522096001544noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20376054.post-90162614482210604922010-01-25T08:41:00.000-08:002010-01-25T08:42:57.123-08:00

Hello All--Northwest Research Blog has moved to my new site here. All archives are available at the new site. Hope to see you there.

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Here is a terrific article about the deep web. I have always heard that Google only reaches 35% of the web. It is great that some of the newer search engines, like Kosmix and DeepPeep are addressing some of Google's deficiencies.DeepPeep looks especially promising, since so much biographic information is behind search boxes. At this point, DeepPeep is limited to a few topics, but I'm looking

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The Multnomah County Library has now subscribed to a Newsbank Online Portal that includes a variety of national papers and news sources. You can see the complete source list here

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Just a quick note to to let new, old, and future clients know that I have returned to consulting full time and am actively looking for new projects. My contact information can be found in the "about me" section of this blog.

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Funding Universe Company Histories has thousands of company histories and a handy search feature. Funding Universe appears essentially to be a tool for VC and angel inventors, but could be very useful for our prospect research purposes.

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Hello-A copy of my peer screening excel spreadsheet can be found hereI'll write more about peer screening soon.

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I found this amazing free tool, that I don't think has been mentioned previouslyhttp://www.msa-zip.comIt will give you zip codes for an entire Metropolitan Statistical Area at once! As well as getting the MSA for a particular zip code. It will also give you the MSAs for an entire state. This is great. I'm using it in combination with Reference USA from the library to identify individuals who are

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I tripped across Seattle Business Monthly website today, and found it has archives through 2007. It is a relatively new publication.Seattle Magazinepublished by the same company, also has some archives up, although the search interface is pretty simple and I can't figure out how far back it goes.

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One of my favorite not very expensive resources isNozaSearchwhich I've reviewed in the past. Noza has now decided that foundation records (gifts given to foundations) are free for anyone, which is a great gift.In addition Goodwin Deacon reported on the 'L that Noza has bought GrantSmart, and is uploading its 990 information into the NozaSearch database.Thanks Noza!

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I get quite a few hits about international prospect research. I haven't done a lot of international research, but two resources that keep being mentioned on the 'L arewww.fresource.infoandhttp://www.fundraisingresearch.info/Both look very useful

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I found this todayhttp://www.bizpubs.org/The Alliance of Area Business Publications, an organization of over 70 publications dedicated to delivering customized regional business news to over 1.2 million business professionals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Australia, provides links to various small business publications all over the country. I found several business

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UPDATE--I WAS WRONG. Things are very hard to find with the new interface, but the Benmarking tool is still available athttp://bizstats.com/industry-financial-benchmark.aspBizstatswhich has been an extremely useful tool for estimating small business net income to owner, has been sold to Bizminer.com. The company has changed the interface, and I previously reported that many of the previously

Maryrose Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15858294522096001544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20376054.post-87256727741373450882007-12-04T09:43:00.000-08:002007-12-04T09:49:27.072-08:00

Robert L. Weiner, a consultant who focuses on software and technology solutions for non-profits, shared his resources page on Prospect-l today. The page collects articles and information on donor databases, email marketing and online fund raising. I'm looking forward to diving into this and to sharing it with my clients. Thanks Robert!

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I foundAccess My Librarywhile I was looking for an obituary from a New Mexico Newspaper that wasn't available either through my usual sources or the Multnomah County website.As the service, which is a part of the Gale Group,Enabled by deep integration with search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com, AccessMyLibrary opens up Gale's large and ever-expanding vault of digital content to the

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The Free Library has recently added periodicals. I found it has a great number of business magazines, including the LA Business Journal from at least 1991 to the present. A wonderful and FREE! resource.HereIs a list of the publications available.

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An interesting article about Silicon Valley Millionaires can be found here"When chief executives are routinely paid tens of millions of dollars a year and a hedge fund manager can collect $1 billion annually, those with a few million dollars often see their accumulated wealth as puny, a reflection of their modest status in the new Gilded Age, when hundreds of thousands of people have accumulated

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I received an very odd call yesterday about Allbusiness.com from a woman who identified herself as a journalist and researcher.The person I spoke to appeared to believe that Allbusiness.com was somehow breaking copyright law. I'm still not entirely clear who this person was or why they were calling me.However, a quick look at Allbusiness shows it has a business relationship with Reed Elsevier

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The newest issue of APRA Connections is available to non-members for 30 days hereThere is some great information and articles on data mining, and campaign screening!Enjoy.

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I just added the Stanford Development Research Blog to my sidebar. It looks highly informative for both beginners and for more advanced researchers.

Maryrose Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15858294522096001544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20376054.post-86866657270487827452007-07-10T06:17:00.000-07:002007-07-10T07:01:24.903-07:00

Manta is a business database that offers free and pay-as-you-go business information.According to the marketing materials, Manta gives Web users access to data and analysis from the most trusted business publishers in the world, including D&B, Newstex, Snapdata, Datamonitor, and ICON. I've registered for Manta, and I've found the free information very useful. The sales numbers for privately held

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I re-found this very interesting link todayMongabayThis organization provides information on wealthiest and poorest zip codes, cities and states. Very interesting for data mining your own database. It is also broken down by state for wealth. All information appears to be based on IRS data.Enjoy!

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I hope you can join myself and Zach Kronser, Director of Development Operations, at Oregon Ballet Theatre on April 19 from 12 to 1 to discuss Research Resources.This brown bag will open up discussion on some of the best of the best in research resources! Come and discuss -- and be reminded of -- some of the tried & true resources available, what's hot and what's not, and how to make the most

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I haven't found a simple page for Washington State assessor, but you can find all county pages here:http://www.mrsc.org/countyprofiles/profilesmenu.aspx

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Links, email addresses and phone numbers for all of Oregon's county assessors can be found herehttp://www.oregon.gov/DOR/PTD/County.shtml

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I've recently set up a simple blog that discusses some basic resources at Northwest Research ResourcesThe blog focuses on simple resources for beginning researchers, with a special focus on resources helpful to those in the Pacific Northwest.I'll continue to blog new and cool things here.Enjoy!

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Here is an interesting and somewhat incendiary article from Sunday's Oregonian on Philanthropy and naming buildings:The John Q. Public Memorial Anything

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The Business Journals published salary information based on survey for 20 cities in the USA including Portland and Seattle.This information can be found here:What 20 Top Jobs Pay in 75 MetrosEnjoy

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Happy New Year!I'm always surprised by what I don't know, and what other people don't know.While training a beginning researcher (of the "Congratulations you are now a researcher" variety) I discovered that she didn't know search basics, like how to create an exact phrase search in Google, so I dug up the Google Basic Search Help PageFrom the basic search page, I learned that Google is now

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Qwika is a Wiki search engine. According to its marketing materials, it has translated wikis from 12 languages into English.The engine also includes WikiTravel and aims to include all sizable wikis.I don't rely on the Wikipedia for a great deal, but it can be useful when researching individuals whose (large) companies have recently been in the news.Recently a new researcher I had trained was

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I looked at my site statistics today, and found that almost 40% of the visits to this blog are by using a Firefox browser.I find this very interesting, because many of the sites I use regularly are not set up for Firefox. For example, when using Foundation Search I've had to switch over to Internet Explorer, because I am unable to get the site to let me save a window as a text file in Firefox.

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The Oregonian had an article on "The New Affluence" yesterday. It can be seen here.The New Face of Affluence What is most interesting is how many people in this article have earned their money through real estate and how little philanthropy is mentioned.

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Hello All--This isn't really a prospect research tip, but I thought it was neat anyway.I've been looking for a car on Craig's List. I've wanted to buy an inexpensive car from a private seller. I prefer a car that has been with a person for a while.One of the problems of buying a (not very expensive) car on Craigslist is that there are a lot of people who purchase cars from auctions, or salvage

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I found this todayhttp://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/name/Which provides little biographies, including birthdates and educationof some business leaders. Not very extensive, but might be useful forquick and dirty research. I also like how it lets you see the list by undergraduatecollege, place of birth, and gender.

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I stumbled over this todayhttp://www.loc.gov/rr/business/company/private.htmlWhich is a guide to private company research available at the Library of Congress.The Library of Congress also has a guide to public company research and international company research. These guides are designed to give someone searching for company information some ideas and strategies for finding this type of

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I was using Bizjournals.com today and found thisALL stories from the Sacramento Business Journal print edition are available online to print-edition subscribers ONLY.It appears that bizjournals may be going to a subscription only model, and that there will be many stories not available to us. I have an email in to the company and will update when I hear from them.

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I was using Bizstats today and found this new disclaimer This benchmarking tool provides national average results of US Sole Proprietorships and does not include operating results for corporations, LLC's and larger entities. These are nationals averages only, individual results will differ, and the differences may be significant.Bizstats does offer other business statistics on LLCs, and

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As any researcher knows, finding the charitable giving of individual donors is like finding a needle in a haystack. Finding gifts required time eating internet searches, using the Charitable Database Online, which isn’t very comprehensive for some parts of the county and combing through news sources. But a few months ago, I received a call from a new company, NOZA, who asked me to look at their

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I found a new, or new to me anyway, search engine today calledFactbitesFactbites bills itself as a topic-based search engine. It appears to search wikis and open encyclopedia as well as providing other answers. According to Factbites' marketing it offers users meaningful, relevant sentences from every site in the search results.I found it useful for searching for biographies on major, high

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Hell0--I've had some emails requesting the links from the APRA-NW presentation on June 28th. They can be found here:http://www.backflip.com/members/maryroseThen click on PNW Financial ResourceIf anyone who missed the conference is interested in a copy of the presentation, email me and I will be happy to send you one.

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It appears that the Foundation Center has improved its free tools.Today, I found the new improved Foundation FinderWhich according to the literature, provides basic information on more than 86,000 grantmakers in the U.S.-—including private foundations.They seem to have also improved their 990 search, which provided four years of 990s for a small Portland Foundation. Guidestar Basic only provides

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Hello--Although the interface doesn't work perfectly for me, Oregon Business now has its archives online.I spent some time poking around today, and it looks like they also have their 2005 top business listsEnjoy!

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APRA-Northwest Summer Conference June 26, 2006 Dollars Making Sense: Finding, Interpreting, and Analyzing Financial Indicators8:30-4:00 (Continental breakfast and lunch included in registration)The Longhouse Educational and Cultural CenterEvergreen State CollegeOlympia, WA 98505Cost: APRA-NW members $55; non-members $70Download the registration form at www.apra-nw.orgLeaders in the field of

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ETA-As of 7:30 this evening, it appears that Exact Phrase is fixed. After more research it appears that it the Google Exact Phrase Search problem seems to be related to certain Google Databases. Here is a blog entry from Nico's Blog (I don't know who Nico is, but the blog is very interesting) that explains it far better than I can.Google: Exact Phrase Search No Longer WorksSo a quick fix would

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I just stumbled across a lovely set of links from Yahoo!Financial Reference>GlossariesI love how Yahoo aggregatessouces, and this is very useful when trying to figure out what those annual reports, proxies, 8-Ks and other business financial documents really mean.I have always been especially fond of Moneywords, which disappeared a while back, but I have become very fond of the

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A reader wrote me asking about Secretary of State databases.I have been using Merlin Information Systems National Secretary of State Database, which can be found hereMerlin Information SystemsYou do need an account with Merlin in advance, and they have a lot of databases that I don't use, but I do like being able to search, by name, in all Secretary of State databases at once.If you are looking

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It appears that at least 75 researchers are having the same problems with Google as I am, and there has also been a message on the Google problems board. Most people have had this problem about a week.What is even more interesting is that two researchers sitting at separate computers in the same room will get wildly different search results.I believe it may have something to do with this:Google

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In the past 24 to 48 hours, I have been finding that Google is notproviding me with accurate searches for an Exact Phrase.I can't give you a real example, because it involves potential donornames, but I have done a search on the name "Katherine E. Morrison"which pulls up 12,900 hits. However, of the first 10 hits, the name"Katherine E. Morrison" only appears in three of them. So, Iimmediately

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Oregon business filings, which until now were only searchable by company name, are now searchable by individual name! With an option to search for all names but resident agent!http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_br_web_assoc_name_srch.mainIn addition, you can search by name and by associated name type (only Presidents or only Directors)Please note that the default settings search only active

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Finding new potential donors is one of the most common and difficult tasks asked of researchers.Here are some things I have done in the past to find new prospects for non-profit organizationsFirst thing I set up a spreadsheet to hold these names.Then I would referenceUSA, a database which you may be able to use at your local library.With referenceUSA you can do very complicated searches For

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I have been enjoying Google Finance, have you?One of the things it seems particularly useful for is finding comparable public companies for private companies.For example, the other day I was researching a large privately held food processor in Washington. The company discloses sales, and number of employees but not much else.I clicked on the "food" subcategory under related companies, and Google

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These are from the fabulous Chris Mildner.The following books are available at the Multnomah County Library National Cyclopedia of American Biography (1893-1963) 920.07 N77 Who's Who for Oregon (1936-44) 920.0795 W58 v. 1-3 (have to request at book pick-up) Dictionary of National Biography (1901-1970) 920.042 D554 Biography Index (1946-2005) 920.B63 Current Biography (1940-2005) 920.C98

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finance.google.comGoogle Finance offers an easier way to search for stocks, mutualfunds, public and private companies. Further, Google Finance alsooffers a broad range of company news and information in order todeliver more relevant, unbiased results in a clean, uncluttered userinterface.I haven't looked very carefully yet, but I especially like the fact thatyou can search on name and come up

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This is the first in a series of posts with a focus on research on a very tight budgets.The first thing I recommend to any researcher on a very limited budget is to make an appointment with the business librarian of your local library (or the largest regional library that you have access to). If you work at an educational institution it can be helpful to meet with your librarian as well.I have

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I am working on a database cleanup project and found this wonderful resource http://www.secstate.wa.gov/charities/charities_store/ctdwcover.pdf This is a 225-page PDF that provides full information on all charitable trusts in Washington! A great resource if you don't have access to FC Search or a good foundation directory.It includes both grant making and grant seeking organizations, average

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According to Search Engine Watch, Firstgovsearch is now live.First Gov search is the search engine of Firstgov.gov the U.S. government's official web portal, but it also appears to search some state and local resources as well.I think this site can be very useful for researchers in two ways:A quick search on the word "salary" provided me with various Federal, State and Local salary tables

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I just suggested this to someone on the 'L as a way of confirming deaths.Obituary Archives is Newslibrary's (Newsbank) Obituary Archive. Like other Newslibrary's products, it is a little expensive to actually see the article/obituary, but searching is free.Often I am able to confirm someone's death using just the search, and don't pay for the obituary.

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Allbusiness.com is a free resource which provides a variety of business resources, business blogs, forms and other advice.The following is a description of from the website:AllBusiness.com is an online media and e-commerce company that operates one of the premier business sites on the Web. Founded in 1999, the site has received critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business 2.0,

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As prospect researchers, we are often attempting to find useful numbers on privately held businesses. 2005 provided many new resources but I think my favorite is Bizstats.comBizstats describes itself as No Chat ... Just Stats!The site, run by Patrick M. O'Rourke, CPA, provides a variety of statistics and benchmarks on businesses. Bizstats.com allows you to "benchmark a business in five

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