Virtual/Web Reference

Contains info on Non-Profits found in 990 form.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. The KIDS COUNT survey is a source for data on child and family well being in the United States.

Census data from 2000 and 2010 is available for free from this site. Information from the IRE's homepage may not be freely available.

Free maps & data links for 2000 & 2010 census information

Official website of the CDC, a U.S. federal agency dedicated to protecting the public's health. Operates under the oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Browse & search U.S. and European datasets

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies regularly publishes numerous reports, studies, and fact sheets about issues affecting communities of color. Our research is used by leading researchers, organizations and politicians to help support and shape the nation's policy debates.

Official website of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that performs research, analysis and polling on U.S. health policy issues.

Dates: 1790-2011
Free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States.

Geological surveys for the 50 states and Puerto Rico from the Association of American State Geologists

Stats America is a website created by the Kelley School of business at Indiana University. It has compiled demographic information from government, educational and scientific institutions.

Search and download a variety of statistical resources from the UN system.

United Nations demographic & social statistics

The World Health Organization's online clearinghouse for international health data.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.

Collection of documents focused on the Presidency from UC-Santa Barbara.

Dates 400 BCE- present
From Yale Law School.

Site created & maintained by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Digital collection of historical American newspapers from the Library of Congress. Coverage from 1789 to present.

Dates 1400-2000
Primary sources and general reference on significant events in American history.

Site sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this collection provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Website dedicated to presenting narrative documentation of migration to and within the U.S. by African Americans. Produced in partnership by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library.

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 366 billion archived web pages.

Archive of Early American Images

Sponsored by Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is comprised of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

RIAMCO is the gateway to information about archival collections in Rhode Island. Search the database’s finding aids to discover what historical materials are available for research and where those collections are located.

The Rhode Island Historical Society online catalog contains records for all genres of the Society's collections. This includes, but is not limited to: books, objects, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, paintings, film, textiles, pamphlets, and broadsides.

The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world and in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

Online exhibition from the Library of Congress

Site created by the National Humanities Center to help teachers and students gain a greater understanding of the role religion has played in the development of the United States.

Collection of documents focused on the Presidency from UC-Santa Barbara.

This online reference source, sponsored by the University of Virginia, provides brief biographies, political & cabinet information, major accomplishments, and more for each of the Presidents of the United States of America.

Main office is located in Washington, D.C.

Digital collection of historical American newspapers from the Library of Congress. Coverage from 1789 to present.

Site sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this collection provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Sponsored by Michigan State University. Digital collection of historical American cookbooks

Dates 1492-1850
JCB preserves one of the world’s outstanding collections of primary sources – including books, maps, manuscripts, and other printed materials – related to all aspects of the so-called “New World” during the period stretching from the late-fifteenth century to the middle of the 19th century.

Sponsored by Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is comprised of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service

Research on the internet from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

The individuals who comprise the PCA/ACA are a group of scholars and enthusiasts who study popular culture.

Includes recordings & transcripts of meetings, telephone calls, etc. from the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, & Richard M. Nixon.

This project contains primary source documents from the American Civil War from Augusta County, VA and Franklin County, PA from the time of John Brown's Raid to the Era of Reconstruction.

Building data, location, specifications, and images.

Films include explanations of the history, importance, and excavation of various historical and pre-historical archeological sites both in the US and abroad. Each video appears with links to online scholarly and popular content related to the particular archeological site being investigated.

A Straightforward identification of art.

A online collection of the UK's 200,000+ oil paintings.

Browse more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.

Free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work.

High definition images with metadata from the National Gallery, London.

Repository of images of from Dutch arts and history. Maintained by the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands.

Research on International non-profit organizations

Work wildlife films and photographs, with more than 1,500 of the world's leading filmmakers and photographers actively contributing to the project.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, practitioners and other experts.

Official website of the National Library of Medicine, the medical library of the U.S. federal government. Offers information resources in areas such as biomedical literature, health data standards, and the history of medicine.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Official website of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, an organization dedicated to the study of African-American history.

Contains a list of web-based resources pertaining to African studies. Includes both domestic and international sources.

Home of Virginia Commonwealth University's Digital Collections. Includes several collections focused on African-American history in the state of Virginia.

Nation's oldest civil rights organization. Issues section features numerous reports and other information.

Supports policy-relevant economic and social research. Has a nice data and data visualization component.

The U.S. government's official portal for open data. Provides access to data from numerous federal agencies in open, machine-readable formats, as well as tools and resources to help utilize them.

Repository of digital collections pertaining to African-American history from the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world.

Website dedicated to presenting narrative documentation of migration to and within the U.S. by African Americans. Produced in partnership by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library.

The Slave Rolls Project is a geographic index of 5971 files digitized by the National Archives. Each file contains payrolls for impressed enslaved laborers forced to work for the Confederacy.

Website offering a trove of data, statistics, maps, and timelines pertaining to the origins and forced transportation of Africans across the Atlantic and within the Americas.

U Penn's list of books that are available online that have been the object of censorship or censorship attempts.

Search for used books, textbooks, rare books & other books out of print

Rent, buy, sell textbooks.

E-Books available online in a variety of subjects

Popular book recommendation site.

A database of books searchable by title and ISBN.

Search the contents of websites that offer free audio books, texts in the public domain, and more.

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Website featuring a searchable index of millions of books that are freely available to read online. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Tips on where to find out-of-print books.

Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
We carry high quality ebooks: Most Project Gutenberg ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

Official website of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, maintained by the Department of Labor. Provides searchable economic and labor data for the U.S.

The Institute brings together leaders from business and academia to fulfill its mission of embedding ethics into the everyday business decision-making and practice of organizations through practitioner-focused research, executive education, and outreach efforts.

The Caux Round Table (CRT) is an international network of principled business leaders working to promote a moral capitalism.

Compressed set of links for the busy executive

Ceres mobilizes a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.

Source for global business knowledge

GRI promotes the use of sustainability reporting as a way for organizations to become more sustainable and contribute to sustainable development.

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) gives state of the art specifications for products, services and good practice, helping to make industry more efficient and effective.

Welcome to the MBA Oath. Our mission is to facilitate a widespread movement of MBAs who aim to lead in the interests of the greater good and who have committed to living out the principles articulated in the oath. The oath is a voluntary pledge for graduating MBAs and current MBAs to “create value responsibly and ethically.”

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are the most comprehensive set of government-backed recommendations on responsible business conduct in existence today. The governments adhering to the Guidelines aim to encourage and maximise the positive impact MNEs can make to sustainable development and enduring social progress.

The Bench Marks states comprehensive standards and expectations fundamental to a responsible company's action.
The Bench Marks is one of the most comprehensive sets of social and environmental criteria and business performance indicators available.

Social Accountability International (SAI) is a non-governmental, multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to advance the human rights of workers around the world. It partners to advance the human rights of workers and to eliminate sweatshops by promoting ethical working conditions, labor rights, corporate social responsibility and social dialogue.

Find companies, suppliers, and service providers for various industries.

The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary driver of globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.