SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING COMPATIBLE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ENTITIES

A system and method for identifying compatible associations between entities. The present invention stores data regarding compatibility factors for entities and provides searching capabilities on the data. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention identifies compatible matches for communities and companies. In this embodiment, the system stores industry data regarding the needs of the industries, and community data regarding the communities' resources for satisfying the respective needs of the industries. The system uses industry criteria, industry criterion weights, and industry criterion minimum levels to identify which community attributes are important to the particular industry. Communities are matched to companies within an industry through customized searches operable to identify communities which are compatible with certain industries or companies.