using apis to power social impact
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Using APIs to Power Social
ImpactFeaturing Salesforce Foundation &
Foundant Technologies
Krystal Kavney
Director, Business Development
GuideStar’s mission is to
revolutionize philanthropy and
nonprofit practice by providing
information that advances
transparency, enables users to
make better decisions, and
encourages charitable giving.
GuideStar’s Mission
API Overview
Salesforce Foundation Demo
Foundant Technologies Demo
Conclusion & Questions
Links & Resources
Agenda - Part 1
API Overview Application Program Interface - allows your product or
service to talk to other products or services.
14,000 APIs available
Google Maps
APIs since 2000
Salesforce
API Overview Application Program Interface - allows your product or
service to talk to other products or services.
GuideStar launched APIs
in 2007
280 unique GuideStar
API clients
86m calls to GuideStar
APIs
3m calls to GuideStar
APIs in the busiest month
GuideStar Data updated
daily
API Benefits
Efficient
Customizable
Automated
Integrated
GuideStar API Data
GX
IRSBusiness Master File
Forms 990
Publication 78
GuideStar Exchange:
Self-reported
Nonprofit Data
Operational
Data
Programmatic
Data
Verification
Data
Financial
Data
Office of Foreign
Assets Control
(OFAC)
GuideStar APIs
Search
API
Exchange
API
Charity Check
API
Detail
API
Operational
Data
Programmatic
Data
Verification
Data
Financial
Data
Challenges Addressed
Let users search for nonprofits
Verify nonprofits for eligibility or donation
Streamline grantmaking processes
Inform donors with basic OR in-depth nonprofit
information
Salesforce Foundation Demo
Our Mission:
The Salesforce Foundation is based on a simple idea: leverage 1% of
the company’s product, equity and time to improve communities
around the world. We call this integrated philanthropic approach the 1-
1-1 model.
My Team’s Challenge:
Create tools to support our employee volunteering and employee
giving.
Evan Callahan
Director of Engineering
Better Data!
Problem:
Employees enter incorrect data or duplicate organizations.
Solution:
Use the GuideStar Search API and Detail API to help employees
find their organization, then automatically fill in fields and create
new accounts in our system.
Stop the Madness!
Problem:
Our staff would manually verify dozens of nonprofits each week on
GuideStar.org and enter the result in our database. At the beginning
of the fiscal year, they’d verify thousands of them again.
Solution:
Use the GuideStar Charity Check API to automatically verify
charitable status whenever employees request a donation in the
app.
Automatic Charity Check
Any Coders Out There?
Do you use Salesforce? Want to use the Guidestar API?
• Search GitHub for “apex-guidestar”
• Quickly connects your Force.com apps to Guidestar APIs
• Free and open source
Thank You!
About Foundant Technologies• Software as a service company focused on
the philanthropic sector’s giving processes.
• Headquarters in Bozeman, MT
About Foundant Products
• Foundant GLM
• For grantmakers to
manage grant process
• 780 clients
• Released in 2007
• GuideStar API’s
– CharityCheck
– Exchange
• GrantHub
• For nonprofits to manage
grants and major gifts
• Beta testing today
• Releasing next week!
• GuideStar API’s
– Exchange
Charity Check Case Study - Why
Charity Check Case Study –Adding Value
• Clients eliminated a repetitive, paper based process
• Clients gained insurance and peace of mind
• Clients saved time from old process
• Foundant gained credibility and trust by making our
clients’ day to day lives better
Win, Win, Win, Win
R E S O U R C E SGuideStar API Developer’s Page:
https://data.guidestar.org/
Foundant Technologies:
www.foundant.com
Salesforce Foundation:
www.salesforcefoundation.org
Salesforce Foundation Live Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W091YQociq0
History of APIs:
http://apievangelist.com/2012/12/20/history-of-apis/
APIs explained:
https://www.apirise.com/8-api-discovery-tools/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/api-good-technology-explained/
APIs for social good:
http://www.publicapis.com/
http://solutions.volunteermatch.org/public-use-apis
http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/
T H A N K Y O U !
Questions?
The (1) text and (2) basic graphical representations in this presentation are under a Creative
Commons Attribution license. The photographs and other copied images are not, as I do not
have rights to them.
Krystal Kavney - GuideStar
415.794.2053
Evan Callahan – Salesforce Foundation
Mark Larimer – Foundant Technologies
406.922.5120