This month, after a justified public outcry, the online charity evaluator GuideStar quickly reversed its decision to stick the Southern Poverty Law Center's discredited "hate-group" labels on GuideStar's profiles of conservative nonprofits.
That was admirable, but GuideStar has another challenge to overcome if it's going to keep ideology out of its profiles of nonprofits. In 2014, GuideStar began collecting and including information about "diversity" in its entries, too, as Suzanne Garment and Leslie Lenkowsky reported in a Chronicle of Philanthropy op-ed about its SPLC controversy.
