GuideStar Will Collect Diversity Data “At Scale” with Nonprofit Sector
From Ruth McCambridge, writing for Nonprofit Quarterly:
Jacob Harold, the president and CEO of GuideStar, said that the effort will use the GuideStar Exchange to collect voluntary information and that he hopes they will be able to attract 200,000 organizational participants over the next two years. New questions will be added to those listed currently. Harold said in a press call yesterday that the effort is critical in that, considering the demographics of the United States, the question of who is leading and participating in nonprofits and philanthropy is equally as important as what their budgets tell us about them. This is not just a moral challenge,” he said, “it’s a strategic opportunity…the goal is not data but diversity.”
Lending additional credence to the effort is the partnership with Green 2.0, which earlier this year issued the groundbreaking “Diversity In Environmental Institutions.” NPQwrote here about this report when it was released.