Job Searching
Retooling Your Life: One-on-one computer assistance for job searching at your Library.
Learning Express Library: Free on-line courses offered through your library.
Web sites
Job Searching on the Internet: Use this list of Web sites to find job openings in the Toledo area, Ohio, or even national and international opportunities.
Websites with Free and Low-cost Aptitude and Career Assessment Tests: Use this list of web sites to explore new careers, take career assessment tests, and find educational opportunities.
Books
Job Searching
Resumes
Cover Letters
Interviewing
Economy and Investing
Where to Invest in 2009: Morningstar’s top analysts share tips on where to invest in 2009.
Web sites
Morningstar
Find a stock or a fund to meet your needs, research current or perspective holdings, or see how your investments fit together.
NewsBank Special Report: A collection of newspaper and magazine articles covering global economic conditions and issues.
Federal Reserve Education: Topics include consumer banking, consumer protection, economics, home ownership and mortgages, interest rates, and loans and credit.
How Stuff Works--Money and Economics: Provides basic information about economic fundamentals such as “How Recessions Work,” “How the Fed Works,” and “Can the government control a stock market crash?”
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Topics include inflation, employment and unemployment, U.S. economy at a glance, and international labor statistics.
U.S. Census Bureau: View the current economic indicator figures for housing, manufacturing, retail sales, international trade and more.
Investopedia: Dictionary of investment terms.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Questions you should ask about your investments.
USA.gov—Saving and Investing: Information about saving and investing published by various U.S. Government agencies.
Books
Economy and Investing
Living on Less
7 Ways Your Library Can Save You Money
Web sites
About.com: Exercise
This feature offers a selection of inexpensive exercise options.
The Dollar Stretcher: Tips on living better on less money.
Feed the Pig: Money-saving tips, an interactive savings commitment calculator, articles, and more.
Frugal Living: About.com’s Web site about living frugally.
Frugal Times: Tips for saving money in the real world.
Frugal Village: Tips for living a simple and frugal lifestyle.
Mayo Clinic: Fitness
Tips for budget-conscious exercise.
Zenhabits: The Cheapskate Guide: 50 Tips for Frugal Living
Books
Frugal Living
Resources for Help
Web sites
United Way 211: Use this site to find help if you need housing, food, transportation, adult or child care, legal aid, substance abuse treatment, or mental health care.
Foreclosure Help: Lucas County Save our Homes Web site.
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: Services include unemployment compensation, health care, cash assistance, food assistance, child care, child support enforcement and administration, and employment and training assistance.
Home Energy Assistance Program: Use this site to apply for assistance and check the status of your application.
Salvation Army: Offers emergency assistance and holiday assistance.
Area Office on Aging: Offers quality services to older adults that allow them to be as independent as possible.
EOPA: Develop and operate programs to advocate for low-income and moderate-income individuals and families to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency.
Giving Without Spending
Volunteer with families & friends @
Toledo Humane Society: The Toledo Humane Society mission is to lead the community in efforts focused on relieving the suffering of, preventing cruelty to, and providing for humane treatment of animals.
Toledo Food Bank: The mission of the Toledo Food Bank is to enable other community organizations to end hunger. They strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
Phoenix Co-Op: The Phoenix Earth Food Co-Op is open to the public and is dedicated to providing foods to its membership and the community that are organically grown, non-toxic, without chemical or artificial additives, minimally processed and packaged, distributed or produced by cooperative businesses.
Hospice NWO: Hospice of Northwest Ohio is the community’s recognized leader in providing care and services for terminally ill patients and their families.
United Way 211: Use this site to search for volunteer opportunities throughout Northwest Ohio.
Charitable Web sites
The Hunger Site: This site features click buttons for six different causes: hunger, child health, breast cancer, literacy, the rainforest, and animal rescue. The concept is simple: Just click the button for each cause once every day, and the site's sponsors will make a charitable donation on your behalf.
Ripple: Ripple works exactly the same way as the Hunger Site, funding clean water, food, education, and a $100 loan with your daily click.
Free Rice: The site features a vocabulary game, where every correct answer you choose donates 20 grains of rice to an impoverished country. Play as long and as often as you like.
Free Poverty: Have you ever played the Facebook staple, Traveler IQ, where you score points by locating cities and landmarks on an unmarked map? This game is just like that, but better — with every correct answer, the site donates 10 cups of water to a poor country on your behalf.
Good Search: No matter what your cause is, you can find a way to support it through the philanthropic search engine tool, GoodSearch. Simply type in the name of the organization you want to support and GoodSearch will donate 50% of its advertising revenue to your charity of choice.
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