CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In collaborative
partnership, Global Impact, Blackbaud, Council on Foundations and
Foundation Center developed a new resource to support organizations
in aligning and tracking charitable giving to the United Nations
(U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More specifically, the
creation of "Global Goals Mapping: A Resource for Social Good
Organizations" supports goal 17, which is to revitalize the global
partnership for sustainable development.
Global Goals Mapping is a comprehensive resource list that maps
giving and volunteerism using both the IRS National Taxonomy of
Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes and the United Nations
International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (ICNPO)
codes to classify the activity and programs of charities and
connect them to the SDGs and related targets. It creates a shared
alignment resource and common language to support all organizations
across sectors in their efforts to map their contributions toward
the SDGs.
"Global Goals Mapping will enhance the impact of efforts across
an organization by understanding the alignment of individual
employee donations, volunteer hours and grants," stated
Scott Jackson, president and CEO of
Global Impact. "By bringing four like-minded and highly respected
organizations together in partnership, we can encourage, support,
and drive strategic philanthropy for the social good community. Our
hope is it will help organizations tell their complete story and
illustrate their commitment to the SDGs."
- Global Impact, whose mission is to build partnerships
and resources for the world's most vulnerable people, will utilize
the mapping and other tools to turn corporate giving and employee
engagement data into more powerful success stories. Through this
partnership, Global Impact will be able to tie contributions to
impacts, align corporate responsibility efforts across departments,
and help companies and their employees better understand how their
contributions are connected to a powerful, collective global
agenda.
- Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading
cloud software company powering social good, mapped the SDGs to the
taxonomy of its Blackbaud Outcomes™ cloud solution. As the first
solution to integrate this type of common outcomes measurement
language, Blackbaud Outcomes empowers funders and nonprofits to
truly understand the impact they are making.
- Council on Foundations, an active philanthropic network
and nonprofit leadership association of grantmaking foundations and
corporations, will use the tool and information to provide the
opportunity, leadership and tools needed by organizations to
expand, enhance and sustain their ability to advance the common
good.
- Foundation Center, an innovative nonprofit and leading
source of worldwide philanthropic data and research, will utilize
Global Goals Mapping as part of a broader ecosystem of resources,
which includes SDGFunders.org, to help funders and grantees better
understand the SDGs.
The SDGs are a set of 17 interconnected global goals devoted to
addressing hunger, poverty, health, equality, peace, justice and
more that strive to "leave no one behind." Adopted in 2015 by 193
countries, including the United
States, they serve as a call to action to governments, the
private sector, foundations, nonprofits and individual change
agents to make significant improvements in life, on land and under
water by 2030. The group's goal is to provide a shareable resource
for the entire social good community to utilize in aligning their
grantmaking with the 17 goals and additional related targets.
"We are proud of the collaborative work that went into creating
this resource," said Kevin McDearis,
chief products officer at Blackbaud. "By incorporating the Global
Goals taxonomy into our software, organizations can tell their
success stories using statistics and results – all within a single
frame of reference. With everyone speaking a common measurement
language, we can begin to participate in a worldwide movement to
lift up the collective social economy."
All four organizations will unite to promote Global Goals
Mapping, and more broadly, the value of the SDGs as a framework
through trainings, webinars and convenings. Based on their missions
and expertise, each organization has been integrating the resource
into its offerings with a goal of improving funders', companies'
and other stakeholders' financial and human capital investments
toward achieving the SDGs for a sustainable future.
Learn more at www.blackbaud.com/GlobalGoalsMapping.
About Global Impact
Global Impact is a leader in
growing global philanthropy. The organization builds partnerships
and raises resources that help the world's most vulnerable people
by providing integrated, partner-specific advisory and backbone
services; workplace fundraising and representation; campaign
design, marketing and implementation for workplace and signature
fundraising campaigns; and fiscal agency and technology services.
Global Impact works with more than 300 public and private sector
workplace giving campaigns to generate funding for an alliance of
more than 100 international charities. Through strategic council
and implementation support, Global Impact equips nonprofits, public
sector and private sector organizations to achieve their
philanthropic goals. The organization also leads national marketing
efforts for the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), and serves as
Outreach Coordinator for the Combined Federal Campaign of the
National Capital Area (CFCNCA), the Combined Federal
Campaign-Overseas (CFC-O) and three other CFC zones across
the United States. Since 1956,
Global Impact has generated more than $1.8
billion to help the world's most vulnerable people. Learn
more at charity.org.
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the
world's leading cloud software company powering social good.
Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, foundations,
corporations, education institutions, healthcare institutions and
individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers
organizations to increase their impact through software, services,
expertise, and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio is
tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions
for fundraising and CRM, marketing, advocacy, peer-to-peer
fundraising, corporate social responsibility, school management,
ticketing, grantmaking, financial management, payment processing,
and analytics. Serving the industry for more than three decades,
Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston,
South Carolina and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. For more information,
visit www.blackbaud.com.
About the Council on Foundations
An active
philanthropic network, the Council on Foundations (www.cof.org),
founded in 1949, is a nonprofit leadership association of
grantmaking foundations and corporations. It provides the
opportunity, leadership, and tools needed by philanthropic
organizations to expand, enhance and sustain their ability to
advance the common good. With members from all foundation types and
sizes, the Council empowers professionals in philanthropy to meet
today's toughest challenges and advances a culture of charitable
giving in the U.S. and globally.
About Foundation Center
Established in 1956,
Foundation Center is the leading source of information about
philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training, it
connects people who want to change the world to the resources they
need to succeed. Foundation Center maintains the most comprehensive
database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grant makers and their
grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It
also operates research, education, and training programs designed
to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level. Thousands of
people visit Foundation Center's website each day and are served in
its five-regional library/learning centers and its network of more
than 450 funding information centers located in public libraries,
community foundations, and educational institutions nationwide and
around the world. For more information, please
visit foundationcenter.org or call
(212) 620-4230.
Media Contacts:
Global Impact
Micaela Vivero
Marketing and Communications
(703) 717-5265
micaela.vivero@charity.org
Blackbaud
Nicole McGougan
Public Relations
(843) 654-3307
media@blackbaud.com
Foundation Center
Christine
Innamorato
Manager, Knowledge Services Communications
CEI@foundationcenter.org
(212) 807-2575
Council on Foundations
Janelle Brevard
Communications
(703) 879-0630
Janelle.brevard@cof.org
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