6 Best Practices for Implementing a GuideStar API.

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6 Best Practices for Implementing a GuideStar API GUIDESTAR Shane Ward | [email protected]

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6 Best Practices for Implementing a GuideStar API

G U I D E S T A R

Shane Ward | [email protected]

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Our Presenters

Emily Iarocci, VP Marketing & Communications

Shane Ward,Data Architect

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A G E N D A

Brief overview

GuideStar APIs

6 best practices

Commonly asked questions

Q&A open forum

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GuideStar’s mission is to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.   

GuideStar’s Mission

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Data about 1.5M 501c3 nonprofits

*IRS*GuideStar Exchange

*DonorEdge Community Foundations 8 Top Donor Advised Funds:*Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund*Schwab Charitable Gift Fund

20 Donation Portals Processing $150M+

annually:*Network for Good

*JustGive

5 Major Online Destinations:*Facebook Causes

*Search Engines

10M annual visitors to guidestar.org

70K social media followers

140,000+ nonprofit reviews from beneficiaries,

volunteers:*GreatNonprofits

Impact assessments about 600+ nonprofits from 5 Expert

Partners:*Philanthropedia, GuideStar

*GiveWell*RootCause

Data Coming into GuideStar:

Data Reaching:

• Easily maintain your organization’s profile reaching 110+ leading and reputable websites and private networks

• Manage your brand on GuideStar’s extended network

100s of other clients and partners

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API Benefits

Efficient

Customizable

Automated

Integrated

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GuideStar API Data

GX

IRSBusiness Master FileForms 990Publication 78

GuideStar Exchange:Self-reported Nonprofit Data

Operational Data

Programmatic Data

Verification Data

Financial Data

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

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GuideStar APIs

Search API

Exchange API

Charity Check API

Detail API

Search Data

Programmatic Data

Verification Data

AggregatedData

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6 “Best Practices” for implementation

1. Use API Keys

2. JSON Preferred

3. Query Syntax Search API uses Lucene Query Syntax

4. Search Field- <participation>

5. Detail and Exchange keyed off of Organization ID

6. Charity Check API is EIN driven

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Question & Answer Session

Don’t you

worry!Which API?

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T H A N K Y O U !

Questions?

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GuideStar API Developer’s Page

https://data.guidestar.org/

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The (1) text and (2) basic graphical representations in this presentation are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The photographs and other copied images are not, as I do not have rights to them.

Contact:

Emily Iarocci,[email protected]

Want to contact CyberGrants?

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The (1) text and (2) basic graphical representations in this presentation are under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The photographs and other copied images are not, as I do not have rights to them.

Contact:

Ashley Early,[email protected]

Want to see how GuideStar APIs work?