Who Will Watch the Charities? - NYTimes.com

Who Will Watch the Charities? - NYTimes.com: "LAST week federal authorities disclosed that four cancer charities had bilked tens of millions of dollars from donors. Questions continue to surface about the lack of transparency at the Clinton Foundation. Philanthropy, we’re learning, is a world with too much secrecy and too little oversight. Despite its increasing role in American society, from education to the arts to the media, perhaps no sector is less accountable to outsiders."



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Recent court decision supports better open data on America's nonprofits - Sunlight Foundation Blog

Recent court decision supports better open data on America's nonprofits - Sunlight Foundation Blog:



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Calif. Nonprofit Association Urges Charity Navigator to Make 2 Big Changes - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Calif. Nonprofit Association Urges Charity Navigator to Make 2 Big Changes - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: "The California Association of Nonprofits, taking advantage of a change of leadership at Charity Navigator, has sent a letter urging the prominent watchdog to make two changes to the way it evaluates charity finances and to spread the message that charities can suffer if they don’t spend enough on overhead costs.

It also asked the group to select a new head who has e"



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Transparency in Philanthropy: Get On Board or Get Run Over - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

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Transparency in Philanthropy: Get On Board or Get Run Over - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly:



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Guide aims to help funders be more ‘transparent’ � Philanthropy North Carolina

Guide aims to help funders be more ‘transparent’ � Philanthropy North Carolina: ransparency includes making available information such as past grants awarded, the process for selecting grantees, performance assessments and strategy documents, says “Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency,” a guide from GrantCraft in collaboration with Glasspockets.

GrantCraft, a joint project of the Foundation Center and the European Foundation Centre, says 75 percent of survey respondents reported seeing increased demand for funder transparency over the past five years.

Red Cross Agrees to Changes in Disaster Solicitations - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Red Cross Agrees to Changes in Disaster Solicitations - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Following criticism of its spending of Hurricane Sandy relief funds, the American Red Cross will make changes aimed at avoiding donor confusion over how it uses money raised in the wake of major disasters, the Associated Press reports.

Under an agreement with New York’s attorney general, the charity will modify the language of online appeals to give contributors more information about whether their gifts will go directly to victims of particular disaster or finance general Red Cross operations.

Charities open their finances to donors via smartphone apps – USATODAY.com

Charities open their finances to donors via smartphone apps – USATODAY.com: Potential donors in New Jersey and Washington state can already check out charities on their smartphones before they write checks. Other states are likely to follow, says Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

New site aims to increase transparency of Texas nonprofits - Austin Business Journal:

New site aims to increase transparency of Texas nonprofits - Austin Business Journal:: "The Texas Attorney General’s office has launched a new online resource that allows users to search Texas nonprofit’s tax filings with the goal of providing greater transparency of charities.

The newly created database , dubbed Charity Search,"