See how leading companies, Salesforce Foundation and Foundant Technologies, are taking advantage of APIs to power social impact. Attendees will learn about GuideStar APIs in the social sector, see specific working examples, and an overview of uses. Part 1 of a series on APIs.

1. Using APIs to Power Social
Impact
Featuring Salesforce Foundation &
Foundant Technologies
Krystal Kavney
Director, Business Development

2. 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

3.  API Overview
 Salesforce Foundation Demo
 Foundant Technologies Demo
 Conclusion & Questions
 Links & Resources
Agenda - Part 1

4. 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

5. 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

6. API Benefits
Efficient
Customizable
Automated
Integrated

7. GuideStar API Data
GX
IRS
Business 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)

8. GuideStar APIs
Search
API
Exchange
API
Charity Check
API
Detail
API
Operational
Data
Programmatic
Data
Verification
Data
Financial
Data

9. 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

10. 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

12. 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.

15. 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.

16. Automatic Charity Check

18. 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

20. Thank You!

21. About Foundant Technologies
• Software as a service company focused on
the philanthropic sector’s giving
processes.
• Headquarters in Bozeman, MT

22. 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

23. Charity Check Case Study - Why

24. Charity Check Case Study –
Adding Value

30. • 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

32. R E S O U R C E S
GuideStar 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/

33. T H A N K Y O U !
Questions?

34. 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
Krystal.Kavney@guidestar.org
Evan Callahan – Salesforce Foundation
ecallahan@salesforce.com
Mark Larimer – Foundant Technologies
406.922.5120
Mark.Larimer@foundant.com