Businesses & Grants

Business Resources

 

Small Business Development Center

 

The Public Libraries of Saginaw has partnered with the Michigan Small Business Development Center to offer free seminars for aspiring business owners. These seminars help new entrepreneurs assess their abilities to lead and manage a company, and introduce them to tools to evaluate market and sales potential for their products and services.

Grant Resources

Foundation Center Network

 

The Hoyt Public Library is a Funding Information Network partner of the Foundation Center. As a partner of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the Hoyt Public Library provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center’s electronic database, Foundation Directory Online. The fully searchable database includes detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation’s top funders.

Databases

Business Decision

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Find customers, target advertising, reach audiences, research and calculate market size. Comprehensive business-to-consumer market and spending data. Company profiles, rankings and market share data,product/brand information.

Business Insights: Global

Business Insights: Global
Global perspective and sophisticated research tools on companies and industries. Case studies, SWOT reports, market share, comparison charts, statistical data sources, news articles, academic journals, and topical reference materials organized by country, company, and industry.

Demographics Now

Demographics Now
Assess business viability – start-up and growth, create sales leads and marketing mailing lists, complete location analyses and business plans, analyze population trends using comprehensive business, census, and demographic data.

InfoTrac Business Collection

InfoTrac Business Collection
Indexing, abstracts and full text for nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications from international, US and regional news sources essential for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Includes broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Legal Forms Library

Legal Forms Library
Michigan and national legal and business forms to fill in, save, print, and file including incorporation, accounting, power of attorney, and business trade name. Legal definitions, attorney directory, legal Q & A, tax forms – business taxes, new business registration also available.

LegalTrac

LegalTrac
Features a comprehensive collection of major legal publications including Michigan specific and provides indexing for more than 1,500 major law reviews, legal newspapers, Bar Association journals, specialty publications, and international legal journals, including more than 2,000 full text titles. Included titles are selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Small Business Resource Center

Small Business Resource Center
Sample business plans, Michigan and national legal forms, how-to guides, 500+ professional and peer-reviewed business trade magazines and journals, organizations directories.