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Charity Navigator - President & CEO's Report for February 2013
The First Step Toward a Measure of Outcome On December 8, 2008 I posted a blog on Ken's Commentary titled, “A Measure of Outcome”. In that blog entry I discussed the critical importance of knowing the outcomes of the work of charities and made the following promise, “we are setting a goal over time of offering an expanded rating system to more comprehensively evaluate nonprofits and separate great organizations from the rest”. Over the intervening years we have been working hard to do just that. The launch of CN 2.0 in 2011 was a step in that direction.
The authors of the influential book Forces for Good examine how their framework for creating high-impact nonprofits applies to local and smaller organizations. (Illustration by Chi Birmingham) O f the more than 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States, the vast majority are local groups striving to achieve maximum results while operating on budgets well under $1 million.
Local Forces for Good
Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them. I mpact evaluations—typically, third-party studies that seek to prove a program model’s effectiveness—seem to be all the rage in social sector circles these days.
Seven Deadly Sins of Impact Evaluation
Five Levers for Social Change: Part 1
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.GuideStar and Hope Consulting have released the results of new study, Money for Good II (MFGII) .
Money for Good Study: Sharing Information About Your Org’s Results Can Attract More Donors
March 10, 2011; Source: The Washington Post | In the Washington Post last week, Dr. Paul Light sounded an alarm about the laissez faire attitude of the sector as a whole to the failure of a few in its midst. Light does not argue with the fact that winnowing may occur as a result of the sector's continuing financial straights – what he is very concerned about is the real possibility that the wrong organizations will go under.
Paul Light: Survival of the Fittest Wrong Path for Nonprofits and Communities
April 25, 2011; Source: Devex | The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is one of the international aid organizations recently recognized as the 40 most innovative groups in the development aid field by Devex, a widely used development aid news and job board service. Devex surveyed 2,149 of its members to come up with a list of top innovators in four categories of organizations: donor, implementing NGO, consultancy and advocacy group. Devex acknowledges a self-selection bias in the sample, due to the limitation of responses to Devex members motivated to respond, and a tendency to pick large, well-known organizations like the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, because it would be unlikely that equally innovative small organizations would be as widely known to development professionals and aid workers around the world.
The Top 40 Most Innovative International Development Organizations
Athletes’ Charities: What Part Self Promotion?
January 17, 2011; Source: The Dallas Morning News | A recent review by The Dallas Morning News of charities sponsored by local athletes and sports teams found that more than half missed “efficiency goals suggested for the nation's best large charities,” according to the paper.
Charity Navigator - Top Ten Lists
At Charity Navigator, we recognize that charity evaluation may not be the most scintillating of topics for most observers.
What's Your Non-Profit's Bottom Line?
From Guest Blogger Nick Cooney. Nick is the author of "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change" (www.ChangeOfHeartBook.com) , and the founder and director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy organization based in Philadelphia, PA. Is your non-profit succeeding in its mission?