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Great Nonprofits powers the reviews on Guidestar

23 December 2010

Today GuideStar went live with their integration with the GreatNonprofits Review Platform. GreatNonprofits now powers all of Guidestar’s non-profit reviews. You can see summary reviews of non-profits in Guidestar search, read and write reviews of non-profits directly on their Guidestar profile page, and sort non-profits by quality of reviews. The qualitative measurement that non-profit reviews provide supplements perfectly the quantitative assessments Guidestar provides (via the form 990s and other financial data Guidestar aggregates).

The GreatNonprofits+Guidestar integration is powered by the API and embeddable widget’s we launched for GreatNonprofits a few months ago. Since we launched, our work has been used by a few of GreatNonprofits other partners. It’s really exciting today to see our technology in use on a big site like Guidestar.

When we first started working with GreatNonprofits, one of their biggest complaints was that they couldn’t get their system scale to the point where they could develop technology partnerships with complementary organizations like GuideStar. We’re really happy to see that with our help, GreatNonprofits has a new and powerful platform that enables growth!

To see what the integration looks like, check out a profile on GuideStar, like this one:
http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/42-0953968/handicap-village-dba-opportunity-village.aspx

Which is powered by the data on GreatNonprofits, here:
http://greatnonprofits.org/organizations/profile/handicap-village-dba-opportunity-village

And here are a few screenshots of reading and writing reviews on a nonprofit profile:

GreatNonprofits platform powers reviews on Guidestar

GreatNonprofits powering reviews on Guidestar

Writing reviews on Guidestar, powered by GreatNonprofits

Writing reviews on Guidestar, powered by GreatNonprofits