Small Business Hub

AtoZ Databases

AtoZdatabases is a directory and marketing database that includes 30 million businesses and 220 million residents. It is ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, and market research. You can email, print or download results. 1,000 downloads are allowed per search.

Bizminer

Want to start a business? Or write a business plan? Bizminer utilizes public and private data for over 18 million businesses. Demographic profiles, market analyses, and financial benchmarks give you clear and accurate insights. Data can be exported in narrative format, for presentation to investors or for your business plan. This resource is available ONSITE only. During this unplanned closure, please contact a librarian for assistance.

Foundation Directory Online

Nonprofiteers, use FDO to locate funding to widen your impact. Find timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers, grants, and grant recipients. Locate filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF. During the pandemic, FDO Essential offers many basic features and can be accessed remotely via link provided to you on request. FDO Professional, the full database, is available ONSITE only.

Grants to Individuals

Use GTI to find funding to help start or finish your education, whether an undergraduate or a graduate degree like an MBA. Artists, filmmakers and other creatives can find grants and fellowships through searching this database as well. Candid provides detailed information on over 10,000 foundations that give to individuals.

EBSCO Masterfile Premier

A magazine database with full text access to key business periodicals like Advertising Age, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise and Fast Company and industry specific publications such as Kitchen and Bath Business, Restaurant Business and Landscape Management.

Small Business Series

SCORE in partnership with the Providence Public Library offers an 8 part starting a business workshop series semi-annually. SCORE counselors present information and provide guidance on such topics as marketing, finance, networking and writing a business plan. The library presents resources that assist in writing the business plan and help find information that new businesses need. The course is offered online and in person. Register and learn more about the current series, March 25 - May 13, 2023.

English for Business Owners

Join us to build your English skills and learn about running a business in a free year-long course. Developed for adult immigrants who want to start or grow their businesses, English for Business Owners focuses on marketing, customer service, finances, and operations. Participants sharpen their English skills through class discussion, reading, and writing. Anyone at the intermediate or advanced English level is welcome. The course is offered online. Learn more and register.

Introduction to Quickbooks

Learn the basics of QuickBooks Online, relevant accounting principles and how to understand small business finances.  Laptops are available for use during this workshop. September 24, 2022 (English)

Register: https://cwewbc.ecenterdirect.com/events/978207

Quickbooks 101 (En espanol)

Aprende:

• Todo lo básico de Quickbook
• Principios contables importantes
• Como entender las finanzas de las empresas pequeñas

Tenemos computadora si necesita una.

Inscribase:   https://cwewbc.ecenterdirect.com/events/978208

While the library has a number of databases to help find business information, we still acquire new titles, in our Reference Collection, such as Food and Beverage MarketPlace 2021, and Plunkett’s Health Care Industry 2021. And in our circulating collection we continue to purchase materials on entrepreneurship, management, human resources and finance.