Go to this site for news critiques, analysis of events related to the 9-11-01 terrorist attack, and for information on non-profit responses to the events.

Resources on the Study of Strategic Communication

This site links you to sources about communication planning.

Learn to Research Financial Issues

Worth:This site revolves around three primary interest areas: Wealth, Living, and Giving. It builds a rich and rewarding environment with insightful content on goals, responsibilities, and money.

Newspage: Daily business news with thousands of categorized stories updated daily. You select the stories by industry. More than 600 information sources are included.

NandoNet: One of the better examples of online news. Includes current world and business news.

NewsLink: Promoted as "the web's most comprehensive news source." Features more than 800 newspapers, 500 broadcast outlets, 700 magazines, and hundreds of special links.

Who, Where?: Offers to help locate people's ancestors. Just don't be disappointed if your great-great-grandmother's e-mail account is outdated.

Career Mosaic: provides online tours for potential employees. Includes a searchable job database, profiles on companies, and a Career Resource Center.

Jobs in the National's Capital

PRNewswire: offers fulltext news minutes after it is transmitted. Stories are archived for past year. Searchable by organization's name. Links to other news wire services available.

PRSA Public Relations Society of America.

For an additional list of updated issues related to non-profit research and information, consult this link:  Non-Profit Current Issues

Philanthropic Research Inc: Has information on more than 620,000 public charities. Charities listed on this site come directly off Internal Revenue Service records and have a tax-exempt status.

American Institute of Philanthropy: This institute is a nonprofit charity watchdog and information service that helps donors make informed giving decisions.

Texas Attorney General Office: Free brochures on charitable giving. "Online consumer protection brochures" and "Giving to to Charities."

Council of Better Business Bureaus: Reports on charities and other soliciting and nonprofit organizations. These reports typically include information on the group's background, current programs, governing body, fund-raising practices, tax-exempt status, finances and indication of whether the organization complies with the 23 voluntary bureau standards for charitable solicitations.

National Charities Information Bureau: The New York organization issues reports on charities and evaluate whether they meet the bureau's standards, which include an active and responsible governing body, a clear statement of purpose, a program consistent with that purpose, and ethical publicity, fund raising and promotion.

Internet Open Records Project: Find public records such as Dallas Independent School District's financial record, Dallas County's voting record, and a listing of registered sex offenders for the state. All this and more with easy access and free of charge!

Electronic Frontier Foundation: The Electric Frontier Foundation frequently lines up the American Civil Liberties Union for some serious First Amendment legal fights on behalf of the much-maligned "L-word" (liberal).

American Civil Liberties Union: This site's Free Speech section keeps a running tab of efforts online and off to curb this right.

Center for Democracy & Technology: This well kept, up to date webpage has a Free Speech section that is easy to work through. Online free speech basics start the discussion which heads into pending legislation on the issues: a resource list and other postings of subtopics such as the Online Protection Act.

CataLaw: From the topics pull-down menu, click on Cyber-Rights for a linked tour of online freedom of expression sites around the internet. The links are indexed by county for a wide range of free speech issues and rights.

Internet Nonprofit Center: This site has thousands of digitized income reports submitted to the Internal Revenue Service from tax-exempt organizations. The reports show how much money the groups have raised and spent.

Electronic Reference Desk

Some suggested electronic references

* Launching Pad for Journalists is just what it sounds like - a collection of links that's a terrific starting place in any information search.
* National Press Club Online offers a listing of Internet resources for journalists as well as a list of supplemental news sources for breaking stories.
* A Journalist's Toolbox A page chock full of excellent links for students and working journalists, everything from general search engines to white pages online to government sites to special-interest areas for health, medicine, sciences and more. Make a stop here, and be sure to bookmark it. A terrific resource.
* American Journalism Review offers links to journalism sites worldwide, including a jobs and internships link...
* Columbia Journalism Review
* SPJ The homepage of the Society of Professional Journalists
* "Careers in Journalism" is one stop you can't afford to miss. Sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, this website lists more than 200 internships available in the United States and Canada this summer. If you're looking for an internship, this is a must stop.
* More internships are listed at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association website. Be sure to check these out.
* Donrey Media Group Donrey offers dozens of internships each summer, all over the U.S., in newspapers, radio, TV and outdoor advertising. This is a good place to find internship possibilities.
* Poynter Institutute offers design tips and more, from some of the best in the business.
* Editor and Publisher Interactive is the weekly "news" magazine of the news business.
* The Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press has useful links for working journalists.

* Slate
* U.S. News & World Report
* The Atlantic Monthly
* George
* Utne Reader
 

* Business Intelligence Center offers advertising, PR and marketing students access to the VALS 2 system of determining market demographics. Offers an online survey to determine your own placement on the VALS 2 scale - lots of fun to do, and with links to other business and marketing resources.

* Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), houses comprehensive, up-to-date information about activities and staffing of federal enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and IRS.
* Politics Now is a great place to keep up to date on current politics
* Supreme Court records and rulings, including current cases and arguments.
* The FCC - Federal Communications Commission

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