Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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.

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