A Quick Guide to Network for Good Web Services

Collect Donations on Your Website

1.2 Million Charities, One Simple Web Service

What It Is
Network for Good’s web services enable your users to search for and donate online to more than 1.2 million charities on your website.

You connect to our web services, and we take care of the rest: the charity search, the credit card transaction, the donor tax receipt, the payment to the nonprofit and all the reporting to nonprofits and to you.

The Specifics: Donating
There are two versions of our web services:

1. Basic Web Service
• One-time, credit card funded donations
• One or more charities per transaction

2. Enhanced Web Service
• One-time, credit card funded donations
• Recurring, credit card funded donations
• One or more charities per transaction
• Ability for your user to save their credit card for later use
• Ability to retrieve your user’s donation history for display on your website

The Specifics: Search
Search is enabled by web services from our partner GuideStar, a comprehensive database of nonprofits.

As the premier source of current nonprofit data, GuideStar allows users to search and select from an extensive database of continually updated listings of more than 1.2 million U.S. tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. GuideStar delivers dynamic data for seamless downstream web integration through Network for Good.

GuideStar has several levels of access to their web services, including a basic search and a comprehensive search with useful information about each nonprofit.

Users benefit from real-time access to the robust GuideStar database within the Network for Good API. In addition, in-house developers can leverage the NFG/GuideStar source code—eliminating the need to build additional web-based applications and saving time and development costs.

Examples of Web Services in Action
Causes on Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/about
Change.org: http://www.change.org/

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The Volunteer Network

200,000 Volunteer Opportunities

One Searchable Database

Easy Integration with Your Website

More people than ever want to volunteer. Nine in ten nonprofits are ready for more volunteers. You can help match good people to good causes by integrating the Volunteer Network into your website.

What It Is
The Volunteer Network is the source for more than 200,000 national, international,
full-time, one-time, ongoing and virtual (volunteering from home) volunteer
opportunities.

How It Works
• Your state signs up.
• You tell us what kinds of volunteer opportunities you want your citizens to
be able to search for on your website.
• We give you a customized search box for your website that allows citizens
to search opportunities.
• We display and host the search results with the look and feel you want.
• We provide citizens links to sign up for opportunities.
• We give you tracking reports so you know who is using the service.

Who Runs It
The Volunteer Network was created in July 2002 through a collaboration between
USA Freedom Corps (www.volunteer.gov), the nonprofit Network for Good and
sixteen major volunteer opportunity partners from across the country.
The Volunteer Network features opportunities from: 1-800-VOLUNTEER.org,
AmeriCorps, boardnetUSA, Citizen Corps, the Corporation for National and
Community Service (MLK day), Hands On Network and Points of Light, Idealist,
National Mentoring Partnership, Peace Corps, SeniorCorps, SERVEnet, United Way,
VolunteerMatch, Volunteer.Gov/Gov and Volunteer2.

Examples of the Volunteer Network in Action
CaliforniaVolunteers: http://www.californiavolunteers.org/
Clinton Global Initiative: http://mycommitment.org/
USA Freedom Corps: http://www.volunteer.gov/
Volunteers for Prosperity: http://www.volunteersforprosperity.gov/

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