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Choosing a charity
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By Marshall Loeb, MarketWatch
Last Update: 7:07 PM ET Apr 12, 2006

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- More than a million charities are registered with the Internal Revenue Service, and the total is growing. So are problems, or at least the attention paid to fraudulent, poorly managed or otherwise deficient nonprofits.
But there is also a renewed focus on donating -- witness the outpourings after the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina -- and on donating well.
The Internet, which provides an increasingly common way to give money to causes, is a good first stop when searching for an appropriate charity. Web sites that evaluate charities include Guidestar.org, Charitynavigator.org and Give.org, run by the Better Business Bureau."