Attribution Guidelines

Charting Impact is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License by a strategic alliance of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA and Independent Sector.

You are free to post and share information about Charting Impact, including published Charting Impact  Reports, under the conditions noted in the license.

When posting or sharing information about Charting Impact on your website or other platform, you must attribute “a strategic alliance of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA and Independent Sector” and include a link to ChartingImpact.org.  This attribution should be visible in close proximity to any descriptions of this initiative, including but not limited to the list of five questions.

When posting or sharing your own published Charting Impact Report, you can link directly to your unique URL on ChartingImpact.org.  Using this link meets the attribution requirements.  You can also include explanatory text about Charting Impact with specific attribution language, such as “Our organization has completed our unique Charting Impact Report, which answers five questions about our plans and progress toward impact. Charting Impact is a strategic alliance of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA, and Independent Sector.” The language used for attribution or describing your organization’s participation in Charting Impact should neither represent that it is an endorsement from BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA, or Independent Sector, nor that it represents fulfillment of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s Standards for Charity Accountability.