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The Blackbaud Institute Releases the SDG Connector: a Valuable Resource for All Social Good Organizations
SDG Connector Uses Codes from the NTEE, ICNPO, and NAIC Taxonomies to Create a Shared System Enabling Grantmakers and Grantseekers to Demonstrate Progress
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[{"type":"text","content":"SDG Connector Uses Codes from the NTEE, ICNPO, and NAIC Taxonomies to Create a Shared System Enabling Grantmakers and Grantseekers to Demonstrate Progress Toward Achieving the SDGs\nCHARLESTON, S.C., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blackbaud Institute, a research division of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, today published a free resource to enable social good organizations to align their missions to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). \nThe SDG Connector, developed in partnership with Candid and the Council on Foundations, will help organizations tie their impact to the highest-level issues facing the world. Nonprofits and grantmaking organizations will be able to use the alignment to the SDGs to help identify strategic partners, clearly communicate goals in reporting and storytelling, and measure their progress toward these goals using a common structure provided by the SDG targets and indicators. Companies looking to support social impact causes will be able to more readily identify organizations aligned to their objectives. Ultimately, this provides a framework and common language to enable all social good organizations to achieve outcomes and make progress toward achieving the SDGs. \n\"By bringing three social-impact focused organizations together to create this resource, our hope is to encourage, support and drive strategic philanthropy for the global Ecosystem of Good®,\" said Ashley Thompson, managing director of the Blackbaud Institute. \"This work helps create a connected community with uniform benchmarks, common best practices and shared vision for creating a better and more sustainable future.\" \nThe SDG Connector uses the IRS National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE), the UN International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (ICNPO), and the North American Industry Classification System (NAIC) codes to classify the activity and programs of social good organizations and connect them to the SDGs and related targets. \nThe 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, foundat...