researching donors
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Presented at RA-BBV FR Course 2007TRANSCRIPT
Researching Donors
The Internet way
Type of donors
Individuals Corporations Foundations
Researching Individuals
Generic research for small & medium donors Focused research on a particular major donor
prospect
How do we start
Simply www.google.com Yahoo People Search is another option Use “…..” to get better results Using “search within results” option Do not add words like ‘to’, ‘of’, ‘and’ etc.
User generated content
www.en.wikepidia.com Social networking sites www.orkut.com,
www.myspace.com, www.facebook.com Business Networking websites
www.linkedIn.com, www.ryze.com Pictures on Google pictures Videos on www.youtube.com Alumni websites Blogosphere
Location + Coordinates
www.mtnl.net.in (tel./add/name/company) www.bsnl.co.in www.maps.google.com (directions) www.mapmyindia.com http://www.eci.gov.in/ (family/age)
Subscription based info
www.lexisnexis.com www.dialog.com
News results
Google news and Google alerts RSS Feeds http://rss.userland.com/
Researching Corporations
http://www.securities.com/search_campaign.html?ui_lang=EN&how_hear=110&spage=10262&gclid=CNqMktKP1Y4CFQ0eEgodOCjhAw
Dun & Bradstreet http://www.dnb.co.in/default.asp
Individual company websites- CSR page www.economictimes.com CII, NASSCOM databases
Financials of the corporations
http://www.sebi.gov.in/Index.jsp?contentDisp=Summons
http://www.rbi.org.in BSE, NSE, OTCEI websites Yellow Pages www.kompass.com Thomas Industrial Index
Sector websites
www.indianngos.com www.propoor.com www.devnetindia.com
Researching Foundations
www.cof.org- The Council of Foundations Philanthropy News Network Online
(www.pnnonline.org) The Foundation Center's homepage
(www.fdncenter.org) OryxPress’ GrantSelect
(www.grantselect.com) The Chronicle Guide to Grants
(www.philanthropy.com/grants)
Foundation websites
http://www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm Provides guidelines and formats
www.thankyou.org
Happy researching