{"id":8827,"date":"2019-02-08T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2019-02-08T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T21:05:04","slug":"guidestar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/guidestar","title":{"rendered":"Guidestar: New Database for Non-Profit Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The library has recently acquired a new database that is an excellent resource for conducting background research on non-profits for assignments, internships, practicums, and job searching. Guidestar provides information on millions of non-profits and has easy to use search functions. Library patrons can search for non-profits by state, zip code, number of employees, affiliation type, assets, gross receipts, and other convenient search terms.<\/p>\n<p>Guidestar provides a detailed list of executives and board members, as well as the salaries of high-ranking employees by using IRS data.\u00a0 Kristin Phillips, a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and core faculty in the Masters of Development Practice Program, explains the importance of Guidestar for students. \u201cThe GuideStar database is one of the most important tools for any development professional seeking employment.\u00a0 GuideStar\u00a0provides at-your-fingertips access to information&#8211;revenue sources, organizational overviews, personnel lists, and annual reports&#8211;on millions of non-profit organizations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/files\/2019\/02\/Guidestar-Emory-profile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8829 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/files\/2019\/02\/Guidestar-Emory-profile-300x205.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/files\/2019\/02\/Guidestar-Emory-profile-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/files\/2019\/02\/Guidestar-Emory-profile.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GuideStar uses a mix of IRS data and a non-profit\u2019s self-reporting to build its comprehensive database. Each non-profit has a unique profile page, which provides a summary of the organization, its programs, financials, and its operations. \u00a0Organizations can report on their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion, their organizational demographics, and on their ethics and transparency. In Guidestar, one can run reports on revenue and expenses, and perform a financial trends analysis. Patrons should sign in through library databases to have full access to GuideStar:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pid.emory.edu\/tj41g\">http:\/\/pid.emory.edu\/tj41g<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library has recently acquired a new database that is an excellent resource for conducting background research on non-profits for assignments, internships, practicums, and job searching. Guidestar provides information on millions of non-profits and has easy to use search functions. Library patrons can search for non-profits by state, zip code, number of employees, affiliation type, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/guidestar\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[627],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news","tag-non-profits","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NNKS-2in","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}