Charity Evaluation | Giving What We Can. Making a Measurable Difference - News. By Caroline Preston Creator of rating tool seeks to improve charity effectiveness When the Latin American Youth Center started a program two years ago to combat domestic violence, it had high expectations. For 10 weeks, men in the program heard from charity employees who advised them that violence wasn't an appropriate way to express machismo or love. The group-counseling sessions seemed to run without any major hitches. But what the Washington charity learned from interviews with participants before and after the program's completion was deeply disturbing.
Influencing Giving Decisions But such emphasis on frequent evaluations of programs is uncommon in the nonprofit world. Steve Butz, a former charity employee turned software entrepreneur, is leading an effort to encourage social-service charities to assess their performance. Mr. "The measurements we were doing were either completely lacking or irrelevant," he says. Such experiences set Mr. Mr. Setting a Standard Mr. Mr. Ideally, Mr. Mr. Evaluating the Charity Evaluators - The Numbers Guy. Review a Charity. If you're a volunteer or donor, writing reviews gives nonprofits valuable feedback on your experience and helps others make better giving decisions. How to Write a Nonprofit Review Search the database for the organization you want to review. If you are a GuideStar Premium subscriber, you'll need to sign out first.Click the Write a Review link in that organization's listing in the search results.ORClick the Write Reviews tab that appears in the left column of every page of the organization's report.Fill in and submit the review form.
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