Common Data Model for Nonprofits

The Common Data Model for Nonprofits is an open source data schema that reflects nonprofit industry best practices. It represents commonly used concepts, activities, and entities used in the nonprofit sector.

Nonprofits work with many different systems, databases, apps, and services. Connecting data and gaining insights across systems is time-consuming and challenging.

The Common Data Model for Nonprofits was built in partnership with nonprofits, and promotes cross-solution and cross-organization data interoperability. It enables powerful insights across activities and departments.

Benefits of the Common Data Model for Nonprofits include:

• Integration and uniformity of data across platforms, applications, and services

• Elimination of information silos

• Access to powerful insights from connected data

• Enhanced efficacy for business operations

• Simplified data integration and application development