582 New Charity Ratings Available Today from Charity Navigator 20DEZ13

CHARITY NAVIGATOR'S DEC e mail newsletter includes updated rankings on 586 charities this month and 12 new charities and their ratings. If you are going to donate to those in need (and I hope you will) be smart and check the charity out with Charity Navigator first!

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Thank You For Using Charity Navigator   We wish to thank you for using our service to guide your charitable giving this past year. To show our appreciation and to help you make an informed decision before the year ends, our analysts have updated nearly 600 charity ratings and added another dozen charity ratings to our site. Best wishes in all your charitable endeavors this holiday season. Sincerely, The Charity Navigator Staff   December 20th Site Update 582 Charities with New Ratings including: 4-star Doctors Without Borders, USA 4-star Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation 3-star Our Military Kids 1-star American Breast Cancer Foundation 0-star Coalition to Salute America's Heroes 0-star Cancer Survivor's Fund 12 New Charities Added including 3-star Project Self-Sufficiency of Loveland-Fort Collins 3-star Family & Children's Service 3-star Teen Parent Connection 1-star Pastoral Leadership Institute   Charity Navigator to Ring the NYSE Opening Bell!  At the height of the year-end giving season, Charity Navigator will ring The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). We couldn't be more excited and we hope you'll tune in to watch Pat Dugan, Chairman of the Board and co-founder of Charity Navigator; Marion Dugan, co-founder; and Ken Berger, President & CEO of Charity Navigator ring the bell. Watch the Ceremony Live Online on 12/27 @ 9:30 am >>>   Time Is Running Out!  Your gifts to charity are an expression of your generosity and commitment to solving the problems that threaten our society. Even if your intentions are 100% altruistic, Uncle Sam still rewards your charitable endeavors by making these gifts tax-deductible. But remember you must make your donation by December 31 to claim the tax deduction on your 2013 taxes. Go To Holiday Giving Guide>>Go To Tax Benefits of Giving>>     Visit our site to see our updated Top 10 Naughty & Nice lists. View all Top 10 Lists View our Expanded List of the Highest and Lowest Rated Charities   NEW feature! Add ANY IRS Registered Nonprofit to 'My Charities' At Charity Navigator we currently rate 7,000 charities. Registered users have the ability to follow any of these organizations by adding them to 'My Charities'. We're happy to announce that you can now also follow any of the 1.4 million unrated nonprofits found on our site. With this expanded feature you can manage a comprehensive list of all the nonprofits you care about, whether we rate them or not.     This Year... Our analysts updated ratings for more than 5,500 charities' ratings We added 1,037 new charity ratings to our site We added a page of information for the remainder of the 1.4 million U.S. nonprofits We added Results Reporting data for 600 charities Join the 25,000 donors who gave close to $1.2 million to Charity Navigator in 2013 and Donate Now to ensure our accomplishments are just as plentiful in the new year.   Visit Ken's Commentary to read his recent Blogs   Visit the Charity Navigator Blog to read our recent posts

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10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers & Charity Navigator Announces New Rating Dimension 6FEB13

CHARITY NAVIGATOR is a charity ranking website. It is a very useful tool to help you make sure your donation is going to do the work you want it to. I use it all the time, and have not donated to, or stopped donating to charities with low ratings. Here are the top 10 charities that spend way more on their professional paid fundraisers than on the actual charity programs, followed by the Charity Navigator newsletter for FEB 2013.....

10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers

These 10 charities are not living up to their missions. Each spends more than 50% of its budget paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity's spending is directed towards its programs and services.

Rank	Charity	Program Expenses	Professional Fundraising Fees
1	Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center	4.4%	94.6%
2	Cancer Survivors' Fund	7.4%	89.2%
3	The Committee for Missing Children	11.1%	86.7%
4	Firefighters Charitable Foundation	7.7%	85.4%
5	Operation Lookout	9.8%	84.2%
6	Wishing Well Foundation USA	9.1%	80.2%
7	National Vietnam Veterans Foundation	9.7%	79.8%
8	Law Enforcement Education Program	3.0%	79.3%
9	Children's Charity Fund, Inc.	8.1%	77.9%
10	National Police Defense Foundation	17.3%	77.2%

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2013 Brings More Ratings and Expanded Methodology  To help you step off on the right foot with your 2013 philanthropic endeavors, our analysts have updated 449 charity ratings. Additionally, thanks to an ongoing support from the Hobbs Foundation, we added 20 new charities serving the needs of children in the South. And we didn't just add new data and new charities, we also revealed our new Results Reporting methodology. See New Ratings >>> See Hobbs Foundation Sponsored Charities >>> See All Newly Added Charities>>>Learn About CN's Results Reporting Methodology >>> Read About Where We Are Headed>>>   President & CEO's Report The First Step Toward a Measure of Outcome On December 8, 2008 I posted a blog on Ken's Commentary titled, "A Measure of Outcome". In that blog entry I discussed the critical importance of knowing the outcomes of the work of charities and made the following promise, "we are setting a goal over time of offering an expanded rating system to more comprehensively evaluate nonprofits and separate great organizations from the rest". Over the intervening years we have been working hard to do just that. The launch of CN 2.0 in 2011 was a step in that direction. However, on January 23, 2013 we took our greatest leap forward in that effort. We launched the new Results Reporting dimension to our evaluation of charities (the overall system is now called CN 3.0 and includes three dimensions - (1) financial health, (2) accountability & transparency, and (3) results reporting). Read Full Report>>>   Charity Navigator Needs Your Help As we continue development of CN 3.0 and adding an additional 1,000 new charity ratings in 2013, we invite you to become part of the Charity Navigator donor family or renew your support today. Your financial contribution is vitally needed and greatly appreciated! Contribute to Charity Navigator>>>   New Hot Topic: Syrian Refugee Crisis   Find out which charities are providing humanitarian aid to the ever-increasing number of Syrian refugees. Read Hot Topic Now>>>     Upcoming speaking engagements for Ken Berger, Charity Navigator's President & CEO  Jewish Federation of North America Conference February 12, 2013 Palm Beach Gardens, FL Grant Managers Network Conference March 20, 2013 St. Petersburg, FL International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy April 25, 2013 Las Vegas, NV AICPA's Annual Not-for-Profit Industry Conference June21, 2013 Washington, DC American Evaluation Association Annual Conference October 16, 2013 Washington, DC   Charity Navigator's Top 10 Lists  See which charities landed on the list of 10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers and which appear on the list of  the 10 Most Frequently Viewed Charities. View all Top 10 Lists Now>>>     Recent Post on Charity Navigator's Blog New Ratings for February A Blog About Charity Navigator and Our Founder Update: IRA Charitable Rollover Syrian Refugee Crisis Top 10 Most Viewed Charity Navigator Blog Posts Set Your 2013 Philanthropic Goals Recent Posts on Ken's Commentary CNN: Livestrong without Armstrong CNN: Newtown Fraud Investigation Avoiding Charity Scams NPR: Measuring The Impact Of Your Charitable Donations   Tell Us How Charity Navigator Has Impacted Your Giving  Donors have told us that our ratings influence their giving choices and charities have told us some amazing stories about substantial donations they've received from donors who have consulted our data. But have you told us your story? We want to know how Charity Navigator has help you be an informed donor or how it has helped your charity obtain funding. Write Us Now

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