How should you choose which charity to donate to? It’s not by looking at their “overhead”. Here’s a better way. #Nonprofit #Nonprofits #OverheadMyth
Donating to charity is supposed to help people and solve social problems. Why haven’t we made more progress solving issues and making a social impact in our communities and around the world? Is it possible we’re not investing enough in a nonprofit organization’s infrastructure? The Overhead Myth has harmed nonprofits and made it difficult to make any headway on big issues. We can do our part as donors and philanthropists to make sure the charitable organizations doing tough work have a strong enough foundation to last and grow so they can tackle the giant problems ahead of us.
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// THE RESEARCH
The Overhead Myth
Charity Navigator’s new Impact Info section
TED Talk: Dan Palotta, The Way You Think About Charity is Dead Wrong
Why Low Overhead Is Such a Bad Proxy for Efficiency
The Overhead Ratio is Not a Measure of Efficiency
Five Foundations Address the “Starvation Cycle”