In response to this blog’s March 7 invitation of a variety of views on Charity Navigator’s decision to change its rating system (to reflect accountability and outcomes measures in addition to financial metrics), Steve Lawry shared his perspective, George E. Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmitz contributed their opinion, and Ken Berger and Robert M. Penna [...]

In response to this blog’s March 7 invitation of a variety of views on Charity Navigator’s decision to change its rating system (to reflect accountability and outcomes measures in addition to financial metrics like overhead), Steve Lawry shared his perspective, and George E. Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmitz contributed their opinion. In this post, Ken [...]

In response to this blog’s March 7 invitation of a variety of views on Charity Navigator’s decision to change its rating system (to reflect accountability and outcomes measures in addition to financial metrics like overhead), George E. Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmitz share their perspective. George E. Mitchell and Hans Peter Schmitz Charity Navigator, the [...]

By Steven Lawry In response to this blog’s invitation of a variety of views on Charity Navigator’s decision to change its rating system (to reflect accountability and outcomes measures in addition to financial metrics like overhead),Steven Lawry provides his perspective on where this move might lead. Charity Navigator is one of the best known and [...]

By Sherine Jayawickrama For the past year or so, Charity Navigator (the major US charity rating agency which rates nonprofit organizations on a scale of zero to four stars) has been in the process of overhauling their rating system. After Ken Berger became CEO of Charity Navigator in 2008, he took to heart the criticism [...]