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Online Business Collection
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg's founding vision in 1981 was to create an information-services, news and media company that provides business and financial professionals with the tools and data they need on a single, all-inclusive platform. Get breaking financial news and stock quotes.
Bloomberg Business Week
While some of the information on the online edition of Business Week is available only to subscribers, much of the news and information is available to all users.
CNNMoney
From the editors of CNN, Fortune and Money magazine, this site brings information on markets and stocks, personal finance, mutual funds, jobs and economy and world business. It also features up-to-date business news.
Long Island Business News
The premiere source for business news on Long Island via a weekly business journal and their daily e-newsletter.
Newsday Business
While covering national and international business and stock information, Newsday's business section also gives comprehensive coverage of Long Island business.
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Business Travel
Background Notes
Prepared by the State Department, Background Notes provides succinct demographic, cultural, historical, and political information on over 200 geographic entities and international organizations. These notes are updated periodically.
Financial Calendar
Tracks holidays worldwide that would affect financial centers including bank, stock exchange and future exchange holidays.
FlightStats
The FlightStats platform delivers real-time and historical flight information that lowers travel-related costs and improves the travel experience.
FlyerTalk
Features discussions and chat boards that cover the most up-to-date traveler information, geared towards travel-related loyalty rewards programs.
International Addresses and Salutations
Examples of international business address formats and personal salutations for 26 countries.
Seat Guru
Touting itself as "Your enlightened guide to airline seating," Seat Guru reveals the best and worst seats for each airline and aircraft.
Travel Health Online
Covering more than 220 countries, this site gives important health and vaccination information for your destination.
World Time Server
Provides accurate current local times worldwide. Searchable by country or city.
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Career Information
America's Job Exchange for New York
Search for jobs and related labor information about your career in New York State. By signing up you can create a resume, apply for jobs in NYS, and have job listings sent to your email.
AARP WorkSearch Assessment System
WorkSearch is a customized online system that helps qualified individuals who are 40 and over to assess their skills, match to careers and link to training and job openings.
Best Companies to Work For
This site from CNNMoney provides the annual ranking by Fortune magazine of companies that rate high with employees. Features include: Top 100 employers, best employers in your state, best benefits, top-paying companies, and more.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a career guidance resource offering information on the hundreds of occupations that provide the overwhelming majority of jobs in the United States. Each occupational profile discusses what workers in that occupation do, their work environment, the typical education and training needed to enter the occupation, pay, and the job outlook for the occupation.
CTI CareerSearch
The CityTownInfo.com career directory presents information on hundreds of employment categories and thousands of schools, to help people find and pursue careers of interest to them.
Indeed
Indeed allows you to search online job listings, newspapers, and other job boards, but it also provides salary information, forums to connect people of similar interests, and a job trends search field that offers solid insight into the state of any industry.
JobHaven - Brookhaven Town Job Message Board
JobHaven was created for local job seekers to have easy access to employment opportunities offered by various companies, businesses, and organizations in and around the Town of Brookhaven. The website also has useful information about Town services for small businesses.
JobStar
This job search site provides resume guides, career guides, salary information, and national job guides.
NYS Civil Service Test Guides & Resource Booklets
Test Guides published by the New York State Department of Civil Service are usually targeted to specific, entry-level titles. They provide a description of the subject areas that will be tested and present samples of the types of test material that will appear on the test.
O*NET Online
The O*NET system serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.
Wall Street Journal's Career Journal
This executive career journal from WSJ includes information on salary and hiring, job-hunting advice, careers as well as numerous timely articles.
Workforce3One
The Reemployment Works! Community of Practice is a communications vehicle to offer technical assistance, share promising practices, and network with colleagues in the Workforce and Economic Development world. Workforce3One currently has over 50,000 registrants from every corner of our workforce world, not just the public workforce system: Business and Industry, Education and Training, Non-Governmental organizations and Community-based organizations, Faith-based organizations, organized labor.
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Company Information
Corporate Information
Contains financial information on leading public traded companies worldwide. Subscribers can access company and industry averages reports.
MissionStatements.com
Use these examples of mission statements from various companies to help inspire you to create your own.
ThomasNet
This register lists more than 155,000 U.S. and Canadian companies and the products they produce. The database is searchable by company name or brand name and includes links to more than 7,700 online catalogs.
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Demographics & Statistics
American FactFinder
Source for population, housing, economic and geographic data.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTS administers data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation-monitoring resources in the U.S. Includes airline on-time performance; freight transport statistics; rail, highway and maritime data.
LIA’s Annual Business Fact Book [pdf]
This book contains detailed statistics concerning Long Island’s economic output, demography, labor force, consumer sector and real estate markets. It also presents detailed fiscal data for local governments on Long Island.
National Center for Health Statistics
As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, the National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve healthcare.
Pew Internet & American Life Project
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.
U.S. Census Bureau
Offers statistics from the 2010 and 2000 Census including population projections, income levels and housing.
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Environmental
The Little Green Data Book
The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 economies. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation.
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Green Your Business
Sound environmental choices build successful businesses. Whatever your need, this is the place to start.
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Funding and Grants
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives access to a database of all Federal programs available to private profit and not-for-profit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.
The Electronic Storefront for Federal Grants
Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies.
Foundation Center - Find Funders
Looking for information about a specific grant maker? Need to identify funders by state, city, or zip code? The Foundation Finder provides grant maker's addresses, web sites, and fiscal data. 990 Finder directs you to an organization's IRS returns. Both services are free and easy to use.
United States Department of Justice Grants
The Office of Justice Programs offers federal financial assistance to scholars, practitioners, experts, and state and local governments and agencies.
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General Business Resources
Inc.com
Inc.com is an Online Magazine where entrepreneurs and business owners can find useful information, advice, insights, resources and inspiration for running and growing their businesses. It also includes Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000, which are list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States.
Business Certificate Search - Office of the Suffolk County Clerk
The website of the Suffolk County Clerk allows users to search for business certificates by business name, owner's name, or filing date. This can be a useful tool for locating new business in Suffolk County.
Empire State Development - Minority & Women Owned Businesses Database
Searchable database of New York businesses that also includes 8 metropolitan New Jersey counties. Search by region, sales, business type, or SIC code.
How to Start a Business in Suffolk County
General information and resources on how to start a business in Suffolk County. Includes important addresses, information on taxes, web resources and more.
New York First
A one-stop business incentive website created by New York State and administered by Empire State Development. Includes a listing of business incentives sorted by region, as well as the means to sort results based on user criteria.
Women-Owned Business Economic Research
Compilation of research studies on women-owned businesses, covering topics such as business ownership rates, women-owned sole proprietorships, venture capital in women-led firms, and more. Includes documents back to 1995. From the United States Small Business Association (SBA) Office of Advocacy.
Your Money New York
This web site is designed to give New Yorkers the information and tools they need to face the broad variety of money-related issues that may arise over the course of their lives -- whether it is getting out of debt, looking for a job, saving for college or retirement, or buying a car or home. The goal of Your Money New York is to serve as a centralized, coordinated access point for this information, and to connect you with programs and resources to meet whatever financial challenges you may be facing.
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Industry Information
North American Industry Classification System
This site lists the 2002 and 2007 U.S. NAICS codes along with their definitions, background information, tables showing changes between 2002 and 2007 and a comprehensive index.
Standard Industry Classification
This website allows the user to search the 1987 SIC manual by keyword. It also includes descriptive information for specific 4-digit SIC codes.
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International Business
The Electronic Embassy
The Electronic Embassy provides information on each of the foreign embassies in Washington D.C. with links to web-based resources when available.
globalEDGE
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
Kompass
Directory of 1.5 million companies, 19 million key product references, 2.5 million executive names, and 370,000 trade and brand names in over 60 countries.
Solusource
Solusource links the industrial community together with tools and resources which provide assistance to better complete their sourcing needs. From sensors to machine tools, from product news to market trends, we cover the broadest spectrum of industrial activity, culminating in a single comprehensive sourcing tool that encourages and facilitates innovation. Solusource is devoted to its users, and indeed much of its valuable content is contributed by them, which makes Solusource the go-to resource for procurement professionals.
World Chambers Network
Dun's Global Directory provides a free directory with basic information on over 75 million global businesses.
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Investment Research
Certified Financial Planner Search
By looking up CFP® professionals, you will find individuals that are currently authorized by CFP Board to use the CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP certification marks. Planners who have been publicly disciplined by CFP Board will also be listed with an indicator of disciplinary action in the "CFP Board Public Disciplinary History" column.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Learn about investing and how to build your financial knowledge. FINRA offers articles, interactive tools, alerts and other resources that help you protect yourself.
WiserAdvisor
This site is designed to help you find a financial advisor suited to your needs. WiserAdvisor has developed several articles that will aide you in your search for an advisor.
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Law
LawHelp NY
Low-income New Yorkers and their advocates can find referrals to free legal service programs; information about your legal rights education; links to social services and government agencies; information about the court system; and much more.
Laws of New York State
Searchable full-text of New York State law as well as the Constitution of New York State.
Laws of Suffolk County
Searchable full-text of Suffolk County law, including the Charter of Suffolk County.
Lawyers.com
This free service from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell is designed specifically for individuals and small businesses and provides: Accurate and reliable profiles of 1 million lawyers and firms worldwide; Consumer friendly explanations of major areas of law, articles on current legal topics, links to legal resources on the web, a glossary of 10,000 legal terms, and more.
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Marketing and Market Research
American Marketing Association
The AMA website, MarketingPower.com, offers a wide array of newly expanded information including research, case studies and best practices in marketing.
KnowThis
Also known as the Internet's Marketing Virtual Library, this is one of the most comprehensive sources of marketing information on the Internet for those involved in marketing, advertising, selling, promotion and e-commerce.
Marketing Charts
Free downloadable media marketing charts and Excel spreadsheets updated daily. Categories include Television, Print, Radio, Direct, Interactive and Outdoor media.
SBA.gov - U.S. Small Business Administration
SBA.gov is compiled by the U.S. Small Business Administration and offers SBA Direct, which gives you information and services based on your unique business needs. It also offers information on how to start a business including grants and loans that are available.
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Not-for-Profit & Charities
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance
Helps donors make informed giving decisions and advances high standards of conduct among organizations that solicit contributions from the public.
Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator, America's premiere independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the Financial Health and Accountability and Transparency of America's largest charities.
The Electronic Storefront for Federal Grants
Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies.
USA.gov for Nonprofits
Provides information and services for nonprofits including grants, loans, assistance, taxes, management and more.
GuideStar
Provides access to information about operations and finances of not-for-profit organizations.
Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
This website gives help in writing a funding proposal.
United States Department of Justice Grants
The Office of Justice Programs offers federal financial assistance to scholars, practitioners, experts, state and local governments and agencies.
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Small Business Resources
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives access to a database of all Federal programs available to private profit and not-for-profit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.
Entrepreneur Magazine
This website includes many resources for the small business owner or anyone interested in starting a small business. Features include start-up resources, franchise opportunities, free email newsletters, marketing tips, and much more.
Long Island Development Corporation
Long Island Development Corporation is a regional economic development, not-for profit corporation that makes long term, affordable loans to small businesses.
MY BIZ for Women
An online resource for women entrepreneurs, this site provides comprehensive business assistance and information. The site is maintained by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Manta
Covering over 20 million small and mid-size U.S. companies, many privately- owned, Manta provides information including location, estimated sales and number of employees.
The New York State Small Business Development Center
Sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the State of New York, the NYSSBDC offers many resources for small businesses including free, confidential counseling, seminars and information.
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
This not-for-profit association is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with free face-to-face or email business counseling. Their website includes advice, a learning center, and many success stories.
The United States Small Business Administration (SBA)
This government site provides information on how to start, finance, manage and expand your business. The SBA Online Library provides access to the SBA's excellent publications on small business management.