Our Forum of Nonprofit Advisors is a group of nonprofit GuideStar users who share their opinions on GuideStar features, tools, and policies. Forum members participate in an on-line, Web-based discussion group that is limited to those who have been invited to participate.

GuideStar staff members actively engage with the Forum and rely on it to facilitate the exploration of several topics. We look for answers to some narrowly framed, short-term questions that can help our managers and engineers make decisions in the course of upgrades and new initiatives. We also seek the Forum's input on a longer-term vision of how to make GuideStar useful and relevant to our nonprofit users and their work. The door is open to input of any kind.

Topics on which our advisors have helped us so far include:

• How can we make the GuideStar Exchange accessible to smaller organizations?
• What sort of incentives would be appropriate to offer to organizations that take the time to add information to their reports on GuideStar?
• What thresholds make sense for requiring a full-blown financial audit, and what substitutes are acceptable for organizations below those thresholds?

Additionally, we sometimes conduct surveys regarding particular discussion threads. Recently, we surveyed Forum members regarding the "Incentives—what works for you" thread.

Join GuideStar's Forum of Nonprofit Advisors. Let us know what we can do for you!

How to Join the Forum of Nonprofit Advisors

E-mail advice@guidestar.org to request to join the Forum.