Business Research Guide

Reference sources like dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks help to define and explain concepts. The handbook Business: The Ultimate Resource is such a resource.

The website Massachusetts Nonprofit Network has a listing of more than 650 nonprofit members from the Berkshires to the Cape and Islands. You can sort by location or subsector

The website idealist.org includes a directory of local, national, and international nonprofit organizations, and allows you to limit your search by interest group or geographic area.

BBB Wise Giving Alliance reports on nationally soliciting charities that the public has most often asked about as well as charities that request to be evaluated. Give.org reports on about 1,300 nationally soliciting charities. In addition, about half of the 112 Better Business Bureaus in the United States and Canada cumulatively produce reports on over 10,000 locally soliciting charities using the same BBB Charity Standards as BBB WGA.