Charity Navigator Gives Portland Audubon Four Stars
Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of over 5,500 of America's largest charities.
This spring, Oregon’s Senate Bill 40 would have taken away state tax deductions for charities spending less than 30% of their budget on services. While the bill stalled in the House, it did bring to light the important question about charity performance. Do you know how well your favorite charities work?
As a response to the hubbub of SB 40, on March 16, 2011 the Oregonian published a listing of how Portland-area charities rank, on a scale of one to four stars. This rating comes from Charity Navigator, an independent charity evaluator, who rates charities by evaluating two broad areas of financial health: organizational efficiency and organizational capacity. After careful scrutiny, they issue an overall rating that combines the charity’s performance in
both areas.
Charity Navigator provides these ratings so donors can make informed giving decisions, showing “how efficiently a charity will use their support today and to what extent the charities are growing their programs and services over time.” (Read more at CharityNavigator.org). The good news is the Audubon Society of Portland has received Charity Navigator’s four-star rating, the highest rating awarded!
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