KEYWORD SEARCHING
Keyword searching is available for the “Organization name,” the “Organization purpose,” the “Organization activities,” “City” and “Zip Code” fields. You may enter one or more words or phrases that will be searched with an implied “and” in those five fields simultaneously.
The Boolean operators “and” and “or” are functional.
RETRIEVING MULTIPLE WORD ENDINGS
You can search a string of letters instead of a whole word to find various endings to a basic word. For example, searching “histor” will retrieve history, historic, “ical, etc.; “garden” will retrieve garden, gardens, gardening, etc.
PHRASE SEARCHING
Typing in more than one word in quotation marks creates an exact phrase search. Examples: “Disabled American Veterans,” “Lions Club,” “drug abuse,” “book discussion,” “domestic violence,” etc.
NOTE: The search “book discussion” will not bring up the organization named Great Books Discussion because of the plural form books. However, if the search was book discussion (without quotations) it would bring up the Great Books Discussion group since it would search with the implied and as well as the string of letters book.
LIMITING
Searches can be limited to organizations where languages in addition to English are spoken. Choose a language from the drop down box to apply a language limit.
Further limits can be applied to find organizations that provide speakers, handicapped access, sign language interpreters, information and referral or that use volunteers. Click in the center of a “radio button” to choose yes.
More than one limit can be used simultaneously. A note of caution: Multiple limits will be searched with an implied “and”.
Limits will be removed with each new search or when the clear button is used.