LibGuides: New Venture Research: Social Entrepreneurship

Reputation of Charities

Charity Navigator
This is a good resource for researching the reputation of various charities and to see who is ranked high (or low) in different categories such as human and civil rights, education, art and culture, and humanities.
Better Business Bureau for Charities and Donors
Another great resource for exploring the reputation of charities.

Foundation Directory
This is an invaluable resource to create a list of foundations or grants. For example, you can find which group grants money in what areas. The directory also contains form 990s, awarded grants, and RFPs. Company profiles include CSR information and their related grant giving organizations.

GuideStar Premium
This is a great resource for non-profit organization research. You can access nonprofit's IRS form 990 filings, which can be a great source of information on the company's revenues as well as executive compensation. Form 990 provides information on revenues, expenses, programs, activities, executive salaries and board members. Parts of the database are only available to licensed institutions, but the site contains significant free content. Access to some free content requires registration

Business Source Complete
The database offers a collection of trade journals, scholarly journals, and full text news content in all disciplines of business. This database yields great results with creative "text" search and offers information from trade publications in addition to market reports, peer-reviewed journal articles, and industry profiles.
Factiva
Full-text online service for national and international news and business information. Covers over 28,000 sources in 23 languages in more than 150 countries. Some company and market research is included.