Useful Websites

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Atlases

http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/map3.aspx?&g=0 Visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports. Based at Queens College.

Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation

This website was suggested by Business Library staff for quick access to info about Brooklyn. Click on the tab that says "Brooklyn." http://www.bedc.org/

==Business plans http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/writingplan.html

http://www.mbda.gov/documents/businessplanwriter-one-pager-v2.pdf

     This is a Power Point presentation from the Minority Business Development Agency.

http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/moyes/bplan/ (basic instructions and 4 plan templates)

http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm (allows users to see 60 free sample plans for

    specific types of small businesses from the 500+ the company sells in their software product)

http://www.bplans.com/samples/sba.ofn (The Small Business Administrations source of plans for very specific small businesses.)

www.smallbis.nypl.org (sources of assistance and with a NYPL card 250 sample plans are available

    from on of NYPL's databases)

Civil Rights Movement

Black Panther Party http://www.blackpanther.org (also the Huey P. Newton Foundation site) http://www.stanford.edu/group/blackpanthers (includes their Ten Point Plan)

Malcom X Project http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp (archival footage, speeches, new info on his assassination, oral histories of people close to him

Montgomery Bus Boycott http://www.stanford.edu/goup/king/about_king/encyclopeia/bus_boycott.html

Congressional Committees

To locate Congressional committees link to http://www.house.gov or http://www.senate.gov. Committee members are listed. Every legislator has a web site which will list his/her committee affiliations.

Guide for Filing a FOIA Request

http://www.bushsecrecy.org/PageIndex.cfm?ParentID=2&CategoryID=8&PagesID=34

Health

Nutrition & exercise websites

http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov MyPyramid Tracker is an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides information on your diet quality and physical activity status. You put in the food and amounts you eat during the day and it will tell you what foods you still need to eat the meet the amounts recommended by the "pyramid." You can put in the amounts at the end of a day to assess that day alone but the unique service this site offers is that you can register and track your food and exercise balances for one year. Drop down menus are used for both foods and activities. They do not have to be used together; you can keep track of just one.

Women's health websites

http://www.whealth.org/links Website has many links related to women's health issues

Government Grants

http://www.grants.gov

Great Article on Starting an Import/Export Business

http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/businessideas/startupkits/article41846.html

Nonprofit organizations

http://www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml USA.gov for Nonprofits One-stop shopping for all federal government programs that fund nonprofits and a section on basic proposal writing. Users can link to their state's requirements for incorporating, find information on special mail eligibility and filing for tax-exempt status. Site includes faith based initiatives.

===http://www.usa.gov/shopping/forgovernment/forgovernment.shtml Sales for Government and Nonprofit Buyers Meant for state and local nonprofits excess property from the GSA and military is available for sale. Some items are: computers, real estate, and office equipment though the potenial buyer must realize that items and quantity vary constantly.

===http://www.gao.gov/new.items/do663r.pdf Homeland Security Assistance for Nonprofits For organizations in dangerous areas or fields of work Homeland Security offers assistance.

===http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/general/pubs/05seminar8.pdf Joint Ventures for CHDO's and Nonprofits

===http://www.nonprofitsrisk.org Nonprofit Risk Management Center Aimed at CEOs and managers, this is a resource for online information, Internet classes, books, articles and software to purchase about financial protection, injuries to or by volunteers, business continuity planning, facility risks and more.

Online Philosophy Encyclopedia

A short blurb from their website--"All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research."

Passports

http://www.travel.state.gov/passport Has all information related to obtaining, applying for, renewing passports. Including reporting lost or stolen passports, fees, online applications and downloadable applications.

Online Philosophy Encyclopedia

A short blurb from their website--"All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research." http://plato.stanford.edu/

Tree of Life Web Project

This is a peer reviewed collaborative project written by biologists. The pages are organized heirchically, using principles of cladistics. http://tolweb.org

Library Best Practices Wiki

http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Library Instruction Wiki

http://instructionwiki.org/Sharing_resources