November 28, 2010
New Ways to Rate Charities Don’t Help Donors Make Smart Bets
Many of us in the nonprofit world cheered when the watchdog group Charity Navigator threw in the towel on an evaluation system that focused narrowly on the percentage of expenses a charity spends on overhead—a naïve indicator of nonprofit efficiency and effectiveness.
Now a new movement is under way, in the form of a cornucopia of nonprofit ranking and assessment tools and Web sites. These rating sites choose favorites, award gold stars (or their equivalent), and declare
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