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Compliance Checks

Compliance Checks​

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Compliance checks are requested via the Monitoring Subscription API

What is a Monitoring Subscription?​

A Monitoring Subscription allows you to see if a nonprofit has passed or failed Goodstack's compliance checks while also being notified of any future changes. If a compliance check has not been completed on creation, the Goodstack team will look to complete the compliance checks according to your agreed SLA.

Statuses​

The status field in the Monitoring Subscription entity refers to the state of the subscription. Below are the statuses and the meaning behind them:

  • pending: Goodstack is yet to run their compliance checks for the nonprofit.
  • pending_validation_request: The Monitoring Subscription was created with a Validation Request and that Validation Request is yet to be handled by Goodstack.
  • validation_request_failed: The Monitoring Subscription was created with a Validation Request that has since been rejected.
  • live: Goodstack have completed their initial compliance checks for the nonprofit and the subscription will be listening for any changes in the future so partners can be notified.
  • cancelled: The monitoring subscription has been cancelled. Cancelled meaning that the subscription will no longer be active and any new updates for the organization in question will be ignored.

Results​

The results field in the Monitoring Subscription object provides the result of each compliance check that Goodstack completes. It will be present on creation and as checks are completed by Goodstack, it will become populated with results and when complete will look like the following:

{
    "results": {
        "complianceStatus": "fail" | "pass",
        "registration": {
            "active": "no" | "yes"
        },
        "warning": {
            "status": "flag" | "clear"
        },
        "sanction": {
            "status": "flag" | "clear"
        },
        "controversial": {
            "status": "flag" | "clear"
        },
        "commercial": {
            "status": "flag" | "clear"
        },
        "adverseMedia": {
            "status": "clear"
        },
        "hateSpeech": {
            "status": "flag"
        }
    }
}

Compliance checks​

Below you can find a small summary of what each check and result means.

Compliance status​

Compliance status refers to whether Goodstack will cooperate and support the given organization. This status is not designed to be a binding decision as to how a partner can work with a nonprofit directly, and only indicates whether the nonprofit could be supported via the Goodstack platform.

  • Pass: This means Goodstack would be happy to support the nonprofit and disburse funds to it.
  • Fail: Goodstack has deemed the nonprofit high risk, due to specific marked compliance warnings, and will not cooperate with this organization.

Adverse media​

The adverse media flag refers to Goodstack performing an interrogation of third-party data sources for negative news associated with a nonprofit and to expose information that indicates the organization would breach Goodstack Validation policies.

  • Clear: Goodstack hasn’t found any negative news associated with the given nonprofit.
  • Flag: Goodstack has found some news associated with the given nonprofit which is a cause for concern and has flagged them.

Commercial​

The commercial flag refers to Goodstack checking to see if an organization organized to make a profit.

  • Clear: Goodstack has found no indication that the organization is made for profit.
  • Flag: Goodstack has reason to believe that the given organization is made for profit and it has been flagged.

Controversial​

The controversial flag refers to Goodstack checking to see if the organization in question are associated with beliefs that exist significantly outside of belief systems broadly accepted in society, or misinformation that is likely to cause real world harm.

  • Clear: Goodstack hasn’t found anything that suggests this organization can be considered controversial.
  • Flag: Goodstack believes that the non profit is associated with beliefs that exist significantly outside of belief systems broadly accepted in society and has flagged them.

Hate speech​

The hate speech flag refers to Goodstack checks in finding any derogatory or dehumanising statements, that incite hate, violence or direct attack against people or groups on the basis of the following characteristics: age, race, ethnicity, nationality, immigration status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, victims of a major violent event and their kin and veteran status.

  • Clear: Goodstack hasn’t found any indication that this organization has shared any hate speech before.
  • Flag: Goodstack has found evidence of the organization using hate speech and has flagged it.

Sanction & warning​

These flags are apart of our AML checks. We look across warning and sanction lists to see if the given organization has any previous history with money laundering.

  • Clear: Goodstack has not found any record of money laundering warnings/ sanctions.
  • Flag: Goodstack has found a record of the organization in a sanction or warning list and has flagged it.

Registration​

This result refers to whether the given organization is active legally. The results for this section are either Yes or No.