Browse by Topic Business, Investing, and Fundraising
Business, Investing, and Fundraising
ACCESS
ACCESS is the portal to Greenville's organizations that support small business. ACCESS makes it easy for businesses to identify and access programs and services that can address their business needs.
AllFreelance.com
A jobs directory offering self-employed small business owners links to freelance & work at home job boards, self-promotion tips, contract employment, lists of self-employment health/medical insurance for freelancers, jobs for freelance graphic designers, web designers, artists, illustrators, and other self-employed home-based small business.
Bigcharts
An easy-to-use investment research website, providing access to professional-level research tools such as interactive charts, current and historical quotes, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners, as well as market news and commentary.
Business and Company Resource Center
Academic and general business, industry & management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires. Investment research reports, company directory listings. (4,000+ indexed titles; 2,900+ full-text).
Business Leader Profiles for Students
Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry.
D and B Million Dollar Database
The Million Dollar Database provides the information professional, marketer and sales executive with information on U.S. and Canadian leading public and private businesses located in South Carolina. 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.
Directory of Development Organizations
Listings of 51,500 development organizations, downloadable in PDF format by geographical region with contact information arranged under 9 categories: international organizations, government institutions, private sector support organizations (including fairtrade), finance institutions, training and research centers, civil society organizations, development consulting firms, information providers, and, grantmakers.
Encyclopedia of Small Business, 4th edition
Provides how-to information that entrepreneurs can apply to their own business. Contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.
FindLaw for Small Business
This site provides legal information for small business owners or those establishing a small business. Topics can be searched by subject and a Lawyer Directory QuickLinks can be browsed by city.
Foundation Directory Online
A research tool that includes the latest intelligence on grant makers and their grants for non-profit organizations. Available only at library locations.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
Detailed descriptions of more than 6,200 foundations that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individuals. Compiled by the Foundation Center. Available only at library locations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
General BusinessFile ASAP (1980 to present)
Information on companies, markets and industries. Market trends, mergers and acquisitions, management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full-text and images.
Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce
Organization promoting development of business and Upstate South Carolina. Includes a local area business directory and a business information page with local demographic and consumer expenditure information.
INC.com
This “daily resource for entrepreneurs” includes Inc. magazine articles from current and past issues arranged by topic or issue, resource centers that include columns, how-to guides, articles, Ask the Expert, and recommended links. This site also includes a list of the nation's 500 fastest-growing private companies.
Investor's Clearinghouse
This Alliance for Investor Education website strives to provide objective information on a variety of consumer finance issues and promote greater understanding of investing, investments and the financial markets. Choose reports and articles from a large menu of items. Sign up for email alerts or RSS feeds for timely, up-to-the minute information.
InvestorWords.com
Glossary of investment terms that includes 6000+ definitions and 20,000 links between related terms. Search by keyword or browse an alphabetical listing.
PowerSearch Featured
The Gale PowerSearch platform offers comprehensive access to authoritative reference, periodical and primary source information. Select from a list of Gale databases. Search multiple databases simultaneously with a single query. PowerSearch features include: advanced searching, bookmarks, search results, quick search and document delivery in email, print and download formats.
ReferenceUSA
Information on millions of U.S. and Canadian businesses, physicians and dentists, compiled from telephone directories, company annual reports, federal, state, and municipal government data, trade magazines, newsletters and major newspapers, legal filings, and other sources. Search by company name, executive name, city, SIC codes, major industries.
Small Business Resource Center
When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes. An easy-to-use "How To" menu tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions, including "How to start a small business."