Charity Navigator Confronts Its Critics as It Seeks to Expand
Nonprofit leaders say the watchdog puts too much emphasis on financials, penalizes charities that aren’t growing, and doesn’t count work done by volunteers.
By Suzanne Perry
Contributor
How Nonprofit Leaders Would Fix Charity Navigator
The watchdog group responds to six wide-ranging suggestions for improvement.
Veterans Group Fights Back at Watchdog Ratings
Steven Nardizzi, co-founder of the Wounded Warrior Project, says charity evaluators’ systems are flawed and ineffective.
By Suzanne Perry
Contributor
You Need Money for Overhead? ‘Oh, Boohoohoo!’
Nancy Lawton, a retired federal government auditor, steers her gifts to groups that get top ratings from Charity Navigator.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Rachel Micah Jones’s small charity is helping laborers fight back online against exploitation.
By Edward Ericson Jr.
Contributor
Online Fundraising Trends to Watch
Improvements in mobile payment system plus the rise of crowdfunding are among key changes that could spur online fundraising.
The group’s system for making short-term internal loans while it waits for pledges to come through helps it fulfill needs as they arise.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
If a business weren’t fully capitalized, it would never take on an ambitious venture. Why should charities be any different?
By Nancy Roob
Contributor
It hurts everyone when foundations dole out strict one-year grants hoping to wean nonprofits off their support.
People are more generous when reminded of their own indulgences, Yale researchers have found.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Capital Ideas, Powerful Impact
As it winds down operations, Atlantic Philanthropies commissioned photographers to document its legacy.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Take-Action Buttons Turn News Readers Into Activists
Foundations and other organizations are supporting creative efforts that make it easy for journalists to steer people to charities worth supporting.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Honor Flight has helped 138,000 former service members visit the World War II Memorial, but 22,000 more are on the waiting list.
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
Work Weekends? This Committed Donor Wants to Know
Carrie Morgridge, whose fortune comes from Cisco wealth, steers her money to groups led by people who are so committed they respond to her questions in an hour, even on Saturdays and Sundays.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Pay attention to mobile devices, match your online and offline design, and more advice from organizations seeing success.
Questions nonprofits and foundations choose not to ask.
By J. McCray and Antony Bugg-Levine