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