New Charity Navigator Rating System Has Nonprofits Scrambling - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

New Charity Navigator Rating System Has Nonprofits Scrambling - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: ut soon Path, like all of the nonprofits that Charity Navigator rates, will have to do more than that to get good marks. It will also have to show that it measures whether its programs actually work.

Charity Navigator, long lambasted for focusing too much on financial criteria like how much an organization spends on overhead, has thrown its weight behind a growing movement to get charities to become more “results-oriented” and “evidence-based.” Its method: Try to get donors who look at its Web site to consider how effective a charity is when deciding where to give.

Charity-rating service rebuts article: Objections

Charity-rating service rebuts article: Objections: In reference to the article "BBB's charity ratings, seal of approval under fire" we strongly disagree with the article's innuendo of wrongdoing.

Charity accreditation cannot be bought. We rigorously evaluate charities at no charge. More than one-third fail to meet one or more of our charity standards. Only accredited charities (ones meeting all 20 standards) may license our seal for a fee. Thirty percent of the accredited charities choose not to license the seal, a decision having no bearing on accreditation.