- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Strengthening Civic Space
- Grant Amount $50,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2012–December 31, 2013
- Location Williamsburg, VA, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
This grant provides continued general purpose support to GuideStar, the premier source of information about nonprofit organizations in the United States. With data on over 1.8 million nonprofits in its database, millions of users of its free public services and thousands of customers for its paid services, GuideStar has become an invaluable source of information to nonprofits and grantmakers. Plans over the next two years include creating and marketing universally accepted nonprofit data standards, optimizing data collection and management techniques and processes, maximizing data sharing with nonprofits, enabling simplified data provision by nonprofits through enhanced delivery tools, distributing nonprofit data and tool packages to partner sites, and creating an agile development resource for rapid technological innovation. A grant increase will allow the grantee to work with the Technology Affinity Group to develop a common database of standard grant information.