want to increase funding for your npo? start by increasing your transparency
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Want to Increase Funding for your
NPO? Start by Increasing your
Transparency
A G U I D E S T A R W E B I N A R
July 16, 2015
Jenny Taylor
Community
Manager
GuideStar
Our Panel
Jasmine
Marrow
Director,
Nonprofit
Strategy
GuideStar
Linda
Oatley
Director,
Partner
Services
Team
Global
Giving
Dolores Estrada
Manager,
Grants
Administration
The California
Endowment
Daren
Nordhagen
President
Foundant
Technologies
Updating your GuideStar
ProfileM A N A G E Y O U R O N L I N E I D E N T I T Y
How many nonprofits have updates their
profile?
• 100K Historically
• About 30K at Bronze, Silver, or Gold
• 85 of the top 100 branded nonprofits
How can you get to gold…and beyond
Bronze
Contact Info
Mission Statement
Area Served
Keywords
CEO Info
Board Info
Lists of Programs
Silver
Audited Financial
Statement OR
Fiscal Year
Revenue Sources
Expenses
Liabilities
Assets
Gold
Long term Goals
Strategies
Core
Competencies
Indicators
Progress in
reaching goals
Platinum
Quantitative
Programmatic
Metrics
Narrative to
explain your
metrics
Introducing Platinum!
• Prove your impact to relevant donors
• Publicly show you progress year to year
• Benchmark your own metrics against
peers
• Squash the Overhead Myth
New and Improved!
Stay Tuned…
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ’S MISSION IS TO EXPAND ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR UNDERSERVED INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES AND TO PROMOTE FUNDAMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HEALTH STATUS OF ALL CALIFORNIANS.
Grantmaking at The Endowment
2, 006 Grants and contracts
totaling $187M
were approved last fiscal year
Application Requirement
Grant Due Diligence
Verify Tax Exempt Status at Intake, Proposal Review and at Payment
Evaluate financial health of nonprofit
Board list review for conflicts
Funder BenefitsSave storage in our database
Information is reliable
Can leverage our knowledge of grantees with other funders
Use it to benchmark nonprofits (place based initiative)
Encourage field transparency
Other usesComparison of local nonprofits (Financial Scan)
Leveraging resources
Diversity Data Collection – Coming Soon
Resource Guide Available on Guidestar990 White Paper: http://www.guidestar.org/ViewCmsFile.aspx?ContentID=4208
NPO Guide to Compensation Issue: http://www.guidestar.org/ViewCmsFile.aspx?ContentID=3890
www.globalgiving.org
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GlobalGiving is an online crowdfunding
community that connects nonprofit
organizations with a vast network of
individual and corporate supporters
around the world.
.
$185M
raised
from…
450K
donors
for….
12K
projects
in…
160+
countries.
Every organization
has a history.
© GlobalGiving and The Pongo Fund
GlobalGiving
& GuideStar
Join GlobalGiving
• Submit an applicationwww.globalgiving.org/apply
• Post a project
• Participate in an Open
Challenge
$5,000
40 donors
2 weeks
• Bonus Prizes
• Matching Days
• Training & Support
Open Challenge
September deadline July 24th!© GlobalGiving and Goodweave USA
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Questions?
Please contact me at:
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Headquartered in Bozeman, MT
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40 Total Employees
• For Grant Makers• Released 2007
• 815 current clients
• 170,000 grant applications in last 12 months
• www.foundant.com
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Grant Lifecycle Manager
• For Grant Seekers = Released 2015
• 14 current NPO clients
• www.granthub.com
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GrantHub
Spring Training 2015 | March 22-25
Demo: Integrations with Transparency Data
Coming Soon:
Questions?