Give and Take: De-Emphasizing Role of Cost Ratios in Charity Evaluation

Five watchdog groups have announced a new effort to try to get Americans to pay less attention to administrative and fund-raising costs when they think about which groups to support, notes Give and Take in its daily digest of the best blog posts about the nonprofit world.

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• A defense of the Extraordinaries, a company that has created a volunteering service for people with mobile phones.