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GuideStar

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International Encyclopedia of Civil Society

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4801 Courthouse Street, Suite 220 Williamsburg, VA 23188 USA www.guidestar.org

Introduction

GuideStar is a nonprofit organization that seeks to provide quality information on the United States’ nonprofit sector. Its name refers to modern telescope technology in that orbiting telescopes stores the positions of guide stars in their databases to determine their position. GuideStar’s reports and database serve that purpose for the nonprofit sector. GuideStar does not serve as a watchdog agency that provides a seal of approval; instead, it seeks to collect data and offer reports to donors, funders, researchers, governing agencies, and the media to allow informed decisions to be made concerning nonprofit organization funding and governance.

Brief History

Before GuideStar was founded in 1994, research on nonprofit organizations was not readily available. Collecting information on the nonprofit sector was difficult and time-consuming. GuideStar was created to support...

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References/Further Readings

  • Burlingame, D. (2004). Philanthropy in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

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  • Frumkin, P., & Imber, J. B. (2004). In search of the nonprofit sector. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

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  • Light, P. C. (2000). Making nonprofits work: A report on the tides of nonprofit management reform. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

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  1. North Carolina State University, Department of Communication, 201 Winston Hall, NC, 27695-8104, USA

    Richard D. Waters

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  1. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Helmut K. Anheier

  2. Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

    Helmut K. Anheier

  3. George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA

    Stefan Toepler

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Waters, R.D. (2010). GuideStar. In: Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_389

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