Today we are incredibly excited to announce our partnership with GuideStar and to announce the beta launch of TakeAction@GuideStar, which will bring Philanthropedia’s expert reviewed high-impact nonprofits to GuideStar’s millions of users.
TakeAction is a new resource for donors that combines recommendations from charity evaluators Philanthropedia, GiveWell, and Root Cause and augments them with GreatNonprofits nonprofit reviews. Currently, TakeAction features our first 4 social causes – climate change, education, microfinance, and Bay Area homelessness. As we complete our research on additional Bay Area and national social causes, you can expect to see more of our experts’ recommendations featured on TakeAction as well. All of this information is presented in an easy-to-use format on GuideStar’s webpage, sorted by different social causes and focused on helping educate and guide individual donors as they make their decision about where to give.
We believe that TakeAction has the potential to make Philanthropedia’s motto “choose causes with your heart and organizations with your mind” a reality. We salute GuideStar for taking the brave step of introducing such a tool, which represents a decisive move away from offering simple, basic information to donors in favor of offering donors useful and actionable information that can guide giving decisions. We also congratulate GiveWell, Root Cause, and GreatNonprofits for partnering to create a resource that can aggregate useful data and focus donor attention on high-impact nonprofits.
Of course, as with any other innovation, we know that TakeAction will go through many iterations before we figure out the best way to provide a useful service to all donors. So please submit feedback to GuideStar to help us improve!
P.S. This is not an April’s Fools joke! Seriously, check out this link: TakeAction.
