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ReferenceUSA

ReferenceUSA will be helpful for finding individual businesses in an area such as grocers or farmers. When you log in, click on US Businesses, then choose Advanced Search. On the left side, choose Keyword/SIC/NAICS and from there you can search for keywords such as vegetables, fruit, etc.

IBISWorld Industry Market Research

IBISWorld gives us industry reports. This will be helpful for getting a broad overview of supply chains, markets, key statistics, and such for an entire industry. We might try to search on the main page once we sign in for vegetable or fruit and then view the reports for Fruit & Vegetable Wholesaling in the US, Vegetable Farming in the US, or Fruit & Vegetable Markets in the US.

These article databases will be helpful for finding information in trade publications and scholarly publications on supply chain management for the food industry, articles about nonprofits who may have tried similar projects to ours, and more.

Helpful databases

ReferenceUSA
Search more than 50 million businesses in the U.S. Businesses module or 250 million individual consumers in the U.S. Consumers / Lifestyle. This resource helps users create small business and marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis and locate people and business competitors and partners.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
A great starting point for articles on business and management topics including peer-reviewed journals and classic publications such Harvard Business Review. Select Company Information from the navigation bar to search by company name and retrieve links to articles and SWOT, industry, market research reports.
ABI/Inform Collection (ProQuest)
This well-known database from Proquest covers articles from thousands of business and management newswires, magazines, trade publications and journals. ABI/Inform Complete combines coverage from three sources: ABI/Inform Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry and provides full-text of articles from the Wall Street Journal.
IBISWorld Industry Market Research
Reports on over 700 major US industries providing current trends and 5-year outlook. Can be searched by industry (NAICS) codes or keyword or company name or may be browsed by type of industry. The IBISWorld Business Environment Reports are integrated to give a macroeconomic view of the industry. A search of this database also retrieves reports from the US Specialized Industry Reports module, with reports coded as OD, rather than by NAICS code.

NPLR 6210 - Integrated Studies in Nonprofit Leadership

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Chronicle of Philanthropy & Nonprofit Times