GuideStar and the Foundation Center Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Much-Needed Data, Resources to the Social Sector
Washington, DC — September 25, 2013. GuideStar, the leading source of nonprofit information, and the Foundation Center, the leading authority on philanthropy, today announced a partnership designed to build the capacity and effectiveness of the social sector. This alliance will leverage the organizations’ unique strengths and complementary missions to support the field in new and innovative ways.
GuideStar and the Foundation Center share a commitment to advancing knowledge for the public good and a belief in the transformative power of data. Both are experts in their own right when it comes to gathering, organizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and sharing data, and each has developed myriad tools and resources to deliver data as knowledge to the field. GuideStar is the central hub of data about U.S. nonprofit organizations and disseminates its 1.3 billion pieces of data primarily through digital platforms and application programming interfaces (APIs). The Foundation Center serves as the definitive source of information about foundations and their grantmaking, which is accessible online and via a worldwide network of funding information centers.
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