Over the past few years, Charity Navigator has been working to expand our rating system (which originally only considered Financial Health) with the ultimate goal of including what we believe are the three dimensions of a charity’s operations that a charitable givers/social investor needs to consider before donating to them:
Sam Worthington, President and CEO of InterAction issues an invite to Keystone’s Development Partnership survey. The invite is below. ___________________________________________________ Dear Colleagues, In 2010, 28 international NGOs in the United States and Europe participated in the Keystone Performance Survey: Development Partnerships to assess the quality of their relationships with their local partners across five[…]
In 2010, 28 international NGOs in the United States and Europe participated in the Keystone Performance Survey: Development Partnerships to assess the quality of their relationships with their local partners. Since then, another 22 have commissioned the survey and more than 2,500 local partners have responded, yielding the participating INGOs with valuable information about how these partnerships could be improved and strengthened.
Who Counts?: the power of participatory statistics by Jeremy Holland (with an afterword by Robert Chambers). Available January 2013. This exciting new book carries 13 case studies of how diverse developmental programs have applied the approach and tools of participatory statistics to measurement and learning. Each case is a unique story about how program implementers and their constituents have[…]
Not all efforts to cultivate the voices of the grassroots are well conceived. It is hard to tell from this article, but it looks like this may well be one of those efforts that will reinforce the tendency of northern NGOs to be accountable upward to donors rather than downward to those they serve. We are[…]
This is the fourth guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. This fourth guidance note, Use of Impact Evaluation Results, highlights three themes crucial for effective utilization of evaluation results. It was written by David Bonbright, Chief Executive of Keystone Accountability,[…]