Help With Searching on Philanthropy Careers

• Use quotation marks if you want to find items in which your search terms appear next to each other and in a specific order. For example, a search for:
  
  "fund raising"
  
  will only retrieve documents that contain the exact phrase.
  
  Tip: special characters -- asterisks, tildes, or plus or minus signs -- will work within the quotation marks.
  
  
• Use the plus (+) sign if a term or phrase MUST appear in the search results. For example, a search for:
  
  +california "fund raising"
  
  means that all results MUST contain the word "california," and may also include the phrase fund raising.
  
  
• Use the minus (-) sign to indicate that a term or phrase must NOT appear in the search results. For example, a search for:
  
  california "fund raising" -marketing
  
  will retrieve documents that contain either california or fund raising, but none that contain the word marketing.
  
  Tip: Use the minus function carefully; you may inadvertently leave out relevant results.
  
  
• For the narrowest search, select the match every word option. This restricts the results lists to documents that contain every term entered in the search box. For example a search for:
  
  california "fund raising" "los angeles"
  
  will retrieve only documents that contain the words california, fund raising, AND los angeles.
  
  
• Use the asterisk (*) as a wild-card character to broaden your search results. For example:
  
  fund*
  
  will retrieve documents with the words fund, funds, funder, funding and even fundraising in them.
  
  
• Use the tilde (~) to include synonyms and other related concepts of a term. The tilde should be inserted in front of the word or phrase you wish to expand. For example:
  
  ~fund
  
  will not only retrieve documents with fund in them but also endowment, gift, finance, and bank.