GuideStar OverviewData Without Borders DC Datadive

March 2-4, 2012

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GuideStar’s Mission

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To revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.

Who is GuideStar?

• The national database of nonprofit organizations

• Information on over 2.1 million nonprofits

• Digitized Forms 990 for nearly 500,000 organizations

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Why GuideStar?

• We have the most comprehensive database of financial data about American nonprofits

• But, we can only do so much – numerous other data sources can provide interesting, important value to GuideStar’s financial data

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Our Burning Questions

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Is there a data-based model that can predict whether an organization is failing, that can serve as an “early warning system” for the sector?

Our Burning Questions

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Is there a model that can highlight “high-performing” organizations, helping drive more to the organizations best able to change their world?

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Thank you!Braswell Brandt

Solutions ArchitectGuideStar USA, Inc.