Global H Codes (GHC) Models

Global H Codes (GHC) is a classification system supporting high level administrative oversight and related executive practices in finance, operations, policy, and technology.  The core structure provides a bridge in data management and reporting between each area, maximizing public and charitable initiatives to the administrative capacity as equivalent to the business sector.  

To date, GHC has been most often utilized for financial analysis, grant writing, annual reports, strategic planning, market research, marketing, partnership development, technology development, compliance audits, and due diligence projects. 

In the field, results from GHC applications have been most valued by bankers, accountants, philanthropists and fundraisers, market research firms, law firms, nonprofit and philanthropic consultants, and information technology developers.  

The core GHC hierarchy upon establishment is maintained today, including the following sample categories: 

PRO: Industry, Professional Field

REG: Location, Regional Jurisdiction 

SIT: Entity Type

POP: Population Group 

X: Specialization, Issue or Subgroup 

L: Leadership, Professional Level

ACT: Professional Activities, Operational Functions  

HCO: Data, Case Information or Research 

Additional 

GHC classifications are typically integrated into multiple cross-referencing matrices, capturing the complexity and often frequently changing nonprofit environment in response to beneficiary demand. Resulting analytics are typically applied to finance and operations administration.

GHC in Communications

The primary objective of any GHC analysis or report is to maintain transparency and accountability in communications regarding any given nonprofit organization, or group of organizations. 

Whether for public or internal purposes, GHC applications are intended to serve nonprofit stakeholders, in a manner to maximize the individual entity or wider sector impact in service to given target beneficiary groups. 

There is strong overlap between sectors surrounding and intersecting with charities, namely: the General Public, the given Charity and any related nonprofit groups, the beneficiary or Consumer, Sponsors, Government officials and related leadership such as association-based accreditors.  

Because of competition within the sector for funding and attention, because of the role of U.S. taxpayers in the tax-exemption of U.S. nonprofit entities, and the subsequent larger interests and objectives in the government and corporate sectors for nonprofit performance in given areas, data resulting from GHC analysis and reporting is at high-risk for politicization, exploitation, and weaponization.

There are a series of laws and ethics restricting nonprofits from engaging in political discourse, political campaigns, and obligating charities to maintain nonpartisan (or bipartisan) practices in order to maintain focus on the charitable mission and beneficiaries. 

In effect, as a fixed standard, any GHC related communications are geared towards the objective, nonpartisan assessment and reporting on actual, fact based, evidentiary bases, specifically to maintain the integrity of nonprofit transparency and accountability obligations to stakeholders.