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Business & Non-Profit

Welcome to the Business & Non-Profit Resource Blog!

06/14/2024
Susana Goldman
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The Alamance County Public Library can be an important resource for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and non-profits.  We'll share information, helpful databases, local and online resources here.

01/23/2025
Tyler James

Managing legal documentation is essential for any business or nonprofit, but it can be time-consuming and costly. Fortunately, Nuwav Legal Documents offers a free, library card-accessible service that simplifies the process by providing customizable, easy-to-use legal templates. Here’s how Nuwav Legal Documents can be a valuable asset to your organization.

Simple and User-Friendly Design

One of the standout features of Nuwav Legal Documents is the website’s intuitive design. It’s easy to navigate and allows you to select from a variety of templates, where you can simply fill in your specific information. This simplicity makes it accessible for anyone, regardless of legal experience, and speeds up the process of creating the documents you need.

Link to Nuwav Legal Documents

Key Documents You Can Access

1. Transactions

Nuwav helps you create essential documents for transactions, such as:

  • Bill of Sale for transferring ownership
  • Warranties to outline product/service guarantees
  • Receipts for payment documentation
  • Affidavits for verifying important facts

These templates ensure your transactions are clear, organized, and legally sound.

2. Contracts

Nuwav makes it easy to generate legally binding contracts, including:

  • Construction Contracts
  • Consulting Contracts
  • Service Contracts
  • Vendor Agreements for events
  • Termination of Contract

These documents provide clarity on responsibilities and expectations, offering protection for your organization.

3. Operations

Managing employee relations and internal processes is a breeze with templates like:

  • Performance Evaluations
  • Warning/Rejection Letters
  • Termination of Employment

These templates help you handle HR matters efficiently and in compliance with legal standards.

4. Protection Forms

Protecting your business and personal information is key. With Nuwav, you can easily generate forms like:

  • Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release of Claims
  • Copyright Cease and Desist Letter
  • Non-Disclosure Agreement
  • Activity Waiver and Release of Liability
  • Consent for Background/Reference Checks
  • Employee Confidentiality Agreements

These forms help ensure legal protection, covering everything from intellectual property to liability and privacy concerns.

5. Additional Documents

Nuwav also offers templates for important documents, including:

  • Receipt for Payment
  • Salary Verification Letter
  • General Partnership Agreement

These additional templates, and more, help you manage business and financial transactions with ease.

Why It’s Valuable

Legal documents are often complex and expensive to create, but with Nuwav, you have access to a library of customizable templates—free with your library card. This service saves time, money, and resources, while ensuring your organization is always protected and operating legally.

Nuwav Legal Documents is more than just a tool—it’s a powerful resource that empowers businesses and nonprofits to operate with efficiency, confidence, and legal clarity. By eliminating the guesswork and providing easy access to essential legal templates, Nuwav helps your organization stay protected and compliant while saving time and money. Whether you’re handling contracts, transactions, or employee matters, Nuwav is the reliable, cost-effective solution that ensures your legal documents are always in order.

Link to Nuwav Legal Documents
 

01/10/2025
Susana Goldman
10 Searchable Databases

•    U.S. Businesses
•    U.S. Historical Businesses from 2003 to present
•    Canadian Businesses
•    U.S. Jobs/Internships
•    U.S. New Businesses
•    Physicians and Dentists in U.S. Healthcare
•    U.S. Consumers/Lifestyles
•    U.S. New Movers and Homeowners
•    U.S. Standard White Pages
•    Canadian White Pages

  • ACPL Library Card & PIN Required for Remote Access
  • NC Live - Accessible with Any NC Public Library Card
  • Business & Non-Profit

Helps users of all kinds search for jobs, research U.S. businesses, create marketing and small business plans, locate specific people and more.
 

Did you know there's an app too? Get it today!

Here's how:

1.    On your mobile device, navigate
to the App Store® (iOS) or Google Play™ (Android) application icon.
2.    Search for Data Axle Reference Solutions application and download it on your mobile device.
3.    Click the Data Axle Reference Solutions icon on your mobile device.
4.    Enter your library’s 5-digit ZIP Code, and then click Find Library.
5.    Select your library in the list.
iOS: Scroll to your library, and then click Done.
Android: Select a library from the list.
6.    Enter your library card number, and then select Remember Me
(optional).
7.    Click Proceed.
You are now logged into the application on your mobile device.

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11/01/2024
Susana Goldman

Here are some business periodicals that can be found electronically or at the library.  Electronic access requires your library card and PIN.

Barron's

Bloomberg Businessweek

Business North Carolina

Business Today

Consumer Reports
Ask for this at the reference desk.

The Economist

Entrepreneur 

Forbes

Fortune

Home Business Magazine

Inc.

Investor's Business Daily

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Money

Start Your Business Now

Triad Business Journal

Value Line (In-Library only)

Wall Street Journal

Libby offers access to many other business magazines!  Find them all here: https://alamancelibraries.overdrive.com/library/magazines/search?query=business&page=1&sortBy=relevance&mediaType=magazine&mediaTypes=magazine 

10/01/2024
Susana Goldman

Resources about volunteering:

  1. United Way of Alamance County - The United Way provides a volunteer matching service and posts notices about volunteer opportunities.
  2. Where can I learn more about recruiting and managing volunteers for my nonprofit? 
  3. Why Track Volunteer Time? 
  4. Activate Good: Anybody Can Be Somebody's Hero - Volunteer!

  5. Idealist.org - A project of Action Without Borders, site includes: a searchable database of over 40,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, thousands of volunteer opportunities, & a nonprofit career center with job & internship listings.

09/01/2024
Susana Goldman
Business and manufacturing guides and directories suited to the needs of jobseekers, investors, entrepreneurs, small businesspeople, students, and other interested parties are available for use in the Reference Department of  May Memorial Library.
08/01/2024
Susana Goldman
07/01/2024
Susana Goldman
06/25/2024

Resources for Management Advice:

Staff Development Resources:

Supporting your staff with professional development helps build a better organization and better members of your team.

Technical & Social Media Assistance Resources:

Foundations

06/18/2024
Susana Goldman

About ABI/INFORM Collection


Launched in the early 1970s, ABI/INFORM remains the gold standard when it comes to business research databases. ABI/INFORM Collection's massive content set — which includes important full-text journals and much sought-after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports — will help today's researchers resolve tomorrow's problems.

ABI/INFORM Collection includes all content found in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. It also includes ABI/INFORM Archive, which offers a deep backfile of many of the most important business journals of the last century.

Through agreements with some of the world's most prestigious publishers — including Cambridge University Press, Dow Jones & Company, Emerald Group Publishing, Dun and Bradstreet, Palgrave MacMillan, the Financial Times Group, and the Economist Intelligence Unit — ProQuest provides access to hundreds of key business titles.

  • ACPL Library Card & PIN Required for Remote Access
  • NC Live - Accessible with Any NC Public Library Card
  • Magazines & Newspapers
  • Business & Non-Profit

Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.

Subject coverage
  • Business
  • Economic conditions
  • Corporate strategies
  • Management theory
  • Management techniques
  • Business trends
  • Competitive landscape and product information
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Etc.

 

Key ongoing full-text journals include:

Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of International Business Studies
Organization Science
Journal of Economic Perspectives
American Economic Review
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Supply Chain Management
MIT Sloan Management Review
China Quarterly
Review of Accounting Studies

 

Key ongoing full-text periodicals include:

Wall Street Journal
Christian Science Monitor
The Economist
Fast Company
Financial Times
Maclean’s
U.S. News & World Report
Women’s Wear Daily (WWD)

 

Key ongoing full-text analyses include market and industry reports from:

Economist Intelligence Unit
Hoovers/Dunn and Bradstreet
Business Monitor International
Oxford Analytica
Oxford Economic Forecasting
Emerging Markets Direct
Experian
Euromonitor
Acquisdata

06/14/2024
Susana Goldman

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