Transparency for Europe's Civil Society through Online Reporting
A GuideStar system provides an online, highly searchable catalogue of reports on a country's civil society organisations (CSOs). Organisations have a free venue to communicate their work effectively and easily to national and international audiences.
The GuideStar Europe project will assess the feasibility of implementing GuideStar systems for 4 European countries as well as a pilot European portal site.
GuideStar International is the coordinator of the GuideStar Europe project.
GuideStar reports have a large and varied audience
- The general public can easily identify organisations, increasing the growth of and public confidence in philanthropy
- For CSOs their visibility is increased and their transparency and accountability established. Through GuideStar they can also identify funders and establish relationships regionally and globally.
- Donors are able to identify organisations whose work matches their own values and objectives.
- Government agencies identify, track and compare CSOs and promote improved reporting and best practices. A GuideStar system will also help streamline the acquisition of this information whilst reducing the reporting burden for CSOs.
- Researchers and policy makers can track trends in philanthropy and civic action
- Third party service providers, such as online giving systems and accreditation agencies use GuideStar information to identify and compare CSOs and to build further services for the sector and general public.
