You pronounce it "Prospect El." This is an online community for prospect researchers. For your free subscription, go to this web site. You can read and post messages on the web site, or via your email client.

Brought to you by the Newtithing Group, a nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about philanthropy. The Planner helps you calculate a prospect's giving potential by providing certain basic information. It also calculates the tax savings that a prospect would realize at user specified giving levels.

Ancestry.com's database containing information provided by the Social Security Administration.

Look up locations by street address. Includes international cities. Provides a map and the best driving directions I've seen from a similar service.

• Investor Words

• Investopedia

• Moneywords

• Harvey's Hypertext Finance Glossary

The Web's most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initials

OSHA's server will give you an SIC code for your key words, or will give you a definition of a code you enter.

The North American Industry Clasification System was supposedly the successor to SIC, but both seem to be still currently in use. This is a list of codes and their translations.

This site lets you see demographic data for a Zip Code of your choice along with the national averages. A desicription of the neighborhood from the Community Tapestry segmentation system is included.

What is the estimated percentage of of net worth represented by real estate? stock? cash? This IRS site will give you download-able statistics that break down the assets of the nation's top wealth holders by type. Most recent data, published in 2003, is for 1998. Scroll down to the section titled "SOI (Statistics Of Income) Bulletin Articles", or go directly to the report here.

Mongabay, which runs a nature oriented blog, has collected statistics on wealthy zip codes and demography.