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Non-Profit Management	Subject Librarian: Shmuel Ben-Gad Location: Gelman Library E-mail: shmuelb@gwu.edu Phone: 202-994-6048 Updated: August 2007 Need Help? Click
This pathfinder is intended to assist those doing research in the field of non-profit management.

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Locate Books and Videos

Use the ALADIN Catalog on ALADIN, which includes holdings for Gelman Library and the other memeber of the Washington Research Library Consortium, and the database WorldCat which includes holdings of thousands of libraries. Some of the subject headings that may be uselful to search under are listed below.
Associations, institutions, etc.
Charities
Foundations
Non-governmental organizations
Nonprofit corporations
Nonprofit organizations
Voluntarism

Under these subject headings there may be useful subheadings (e.g. voluntarism management)

Locate Articles in Periodicals

Use the following indexes to find periodical articles. To access those sources with a location of ALADIN, click on the title of the database. If accessing these databases directly from ALADIN, choose the the appropriate alphabetical grouping under Databases by Title.

ALADIN databases are available for use only by current GW students, staff, and faculty. If you are using this page from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your last name and the barcode number from the back of your GWorld ID cared and select your institution before you can access the database.

ABI Inform. 1970 -
Location: ALADIN
This indexes and provides abstracts to articles in about 1,000 economics, management (including nonprofit management), and information technology periodicals. The full text is also available for many of the articles. A thesaurus of subject headings is available by clicking on Browse Topics and then on Thesaurus. Some good subject headings to use are associations, charitable foundations, charities, foundations, member services, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit hospitals, nonprofit organizations, red cross organizations, religious organizations, and tax exempt organizations. It is possible to limit a search to scholarly articles by typing 9130 and changing the box to the right to classification code in the advanced search format.

Business & Industry Database. Daily. 1994 -
Location: ALADIN
This indexes and provides abstracts and much full text for business magazines and trade journals. It is international in scope.

Business Source Premier
Location: ALADIN
Similar to ABI Inform (above). Some good subject headings to use are: nonprofit organizations, non-governmental organizations, charities, trusts & trustees, and associations, institutions, etc.

Factiva. Daily
Location: ALADIN
This provides the full text of numerous newspapers, magazines, newswires, trade journals, and transcripts of electronic media.

Lexis/Nexis. Daily.
Location: ALADIN
This provides full text of articles of a great many newspapers and business and general periodicals. It is particularly good for news items.

Military and Government Collection
Location: ALADIN
Includes coverage of nonprofit subjects.

Sage Public Administration Abstracts. 1974 -
Location: REF JA 1 .S27
This covers public administration and other related journals. It has subject and author indices. Good subject headings to use are nonprofit organizations and voluntary agencies.

Locate Information on Organizations and People

Capital Source. Annual.
Location: ALADIN
A directory to the D.C. area, including associations, interest groups, labor unions, think tanks, etc.

Encyclopedia of Associations. Annual.
Location: READY REF HS 17 .G32
This provides information on all sorts of associations. Volume one part three is an index by keyword to parts one and two.

Guidestar
Location: http://www.guidestar.org
Covers more than 620,000 nonprofit organizations providing financial information (from IRS 990 forms) and other information. Clicking on Advanced Search gives you more flexibility in searching.

Washington. Annual. 1996-
Location: READY REF F 192.5 .W3 (Next latest at the Virginia Campus Library. Earlier in stacks. Special Collections has 1966, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1984-1993, 1995-)
This is a, "directory of the area's major institutions and people who run them," including associations, foundations, cultural institutions, and the like.

For More Information

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