Guidestar presented this overview of their organization and data challenge at #dcdatadive, co-hosted by #ISNGEN fellows and #DatanoBorders

1. GuideStar Overview
Data Without Borders DC Datadive
March 2-4, 2012
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2. GuideStar’s Mission
To revolutionize philanthropy and
nonprofit practice by providing information
that advances transparency, enables
users to make better decisions, and
encourages charitable giving.
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3. 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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4. 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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5. Our Burning Questions
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?
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6. Our Burning Questions
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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7. Thank you!
Braswell Brandt
Solutions Architect
GuideStar USA, Inc.
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