Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” -John F. Kennedy A federal judge ruled last […]
In 2013, I joined with colleagues at BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Charity Navigator to write an open letter to the donors of America explaining that “overhead ratios” are a […]
Buzz Schmidt was frustrated. As a fundraiser and a donor, he’d encountered the same roadblock: he couldn’t find the nonprofit information he needed. On September 6, 1994, Buzz and four […]
The following is a (slightly edited) response from GuideStar president and CEO Jacob Harold to the blog post by GiveWell co-founder Holden Karnofsky. In his blog post, Karnofsky reflects on […]
There is much debate about how to measure the effectiveness — or strength — of a nonprofit organization. Some argue that measures like percentage of “overhead” or CEO compensation tell […]
Editor’s note: the following is a cross-post of Jacob Harold’s article in the Huffington Post’s TEDWeekends issue published September 21. You can read the original post here and the entire […]
There’s the often-quoted parable of the three wise blind men touching an elephant and describing it: one touches the tail and says the elephant is a rope; one touches a […]
My nonprofit friends, it’s time we changed the conversation about “the overhead ratio”: the percentage of your organization’s expenses that go to administrative and fundraising costs. For too long, we’ve […]
On Wednesday, the Obama Administration released their Fiscal Year 2014 Budget. In it, there are two items that could transform how the way nonprofit information is shared with the public. […]