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Michael Thatcher: Rating charities

Philanthropisms

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The Wider Debate About Measurement and Impact in the Nonprofit Spleen

Charity navigator has a zero to four star rating system, which is intended to let you know you can give with confidence when you got three or four stars. There's an art between having the rigor but then also giving someone a clear signal that it's okay to give here. We had a huge debate internally over the last couple of years do we go to a numeric score? The original encompass system was, you know, between zero and 100 and very quickly realize that what's the difference between a 97 and a 95? Is it meaningful? And so we realized you had to keep it simpler, but you had to let people dig in if they wanted to, but then make it

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