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Presentation explains the importance of creating and maintaining a profile on Guidestar for the Columbia State Foundation.
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Columbia State Community College Foundation
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GuideStar's MissionTo revolutionize philanthropy
and nonprofit practice by providing information that
advances transparency, enables users to make better
decisions and encourages charitable giving.
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GuideStar obtains information from the IRS Business Master File, IRS Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF and individual organizations.
Columbia State Community College Foundation chose to participate in GuideStar Exchange and provide comprehensive information that gives our prospective donors all they need to know to have confidence is supporting us with their charitable giving.
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What is the GuideStar Exchange?The GuideStar Exchange is an initiative designed to connect nonprofits with current and potential supporters. With millions of people coming to GuideStar to learn more about nonprofit organizations, the GuideStar Exchange allows nonprofits to share a wealth of up-to-date information with GuideStar's vast on-line audience of grant makers and individual donors.
Exchange members are nonprofits that have updated their nonprofit report to the fullest—sharing information, documentation, photos and video with GuideStar's site visitors.
What is the GuideStar Exchange seal, and how can my organization qualify for it?The GuideStar Exchange seal appears on Exchange member's report pages. Here is some of the information required to receive the seal and become an Exchange member:
• An independent audit of financial statements• An independent review of financial statements• A GuideStar Basic Financial Statement• An independent audit of financial statements• An independent review of financial statements
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Benefits to Columbia State Foundation of the
GuideStar Exchange “Partners’s in Trust” certification• provides us with free marketing, fundraising and
management tools we can use to become more effective
• allows donors and grant makers to verify our tax status
quickly and accurately
• assists CSCCF in gathering information on potential
sources of financial support for our projects and programs
• encourages individuals to become involved in the
nonprofit sector by providing them with the data they
need to make giving decisions
• allows use of their respected Valued Partner seal on all
CSCCF and Columbia State marketing materials,
websites and other communications
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Mission and Impact
Online visitors can click tabs to learn more
about the CSCCF
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General Information
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Financial Information
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Forms and Documents
to Download
990s obtained from IRS
Other documents supplied by CSCCF
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CSCCF PeopleBoard
members from several
years are listed,
obtained from state annual report filings
Office of Advancement
provides current
detailed Board information
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Programs and Results
Up to five programs can
be profiled
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News
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Some donors only contribute through GuideStar. This button makes it easy for us to
receive support.
Every positive review printed on the CSCCF profile helps make potential donors more
confident about our work. Please take time to write a review.
Added Value
Icons help our supporters share our story.
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The CSCCF printable
profile contains 22
pages of detailed
informationto share
as .pdf or hard copy
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How YOU Can Helpvisit GuideStar and write a review of CSCCF
print a report to share with potential supporters
download the .pdf for a convenient email
presentation
put a link to CSCCF’s profile on your Facebook page, blog or website
send potential supporters a link to the online profile
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