On 5-18-12 I was interviewed live on CNN by Anderson Cooper
regarding general advice for giving to charities as well as lessons learned
based on their investigative report on two veteran's charities - DisabledVeterans National Foundation (DVNF) and National Veteran's Foundation (NVF). At the time of the report Anderson noted
that we do not currently rate DVNF
(because they are less than five years old and therefore do not meet our
current criteria) but since that time the Senate has launched an
investigation in to the group, therefore we now have a Donor
Advisory up for the group. In the case of NVF,
he noted that we gave the organization 3-stars and asked if we were
planning to have another look. I told him we definitely would do so. After an
in depth review, we have amended the rating of the NVF
(it is now a 0-star organization). Finally, we were blown away by the
incredibly strong urging Anderson gave his viewers to use Charity Navigator as
a resource!
The full segment is about 14 minutes, but if you just want to see
the segment that includes Charity Navigator, skip to the 7 minute mark. Enjoy!
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4 comments:
I saw this interview and I was quite shocked to see that Charity Navigator itself was caught with its pants done: they had not done their due diligence on the Veteran's charity, but had given it a 3-star rating. That really gave me pause, and made me wonder whether Charity Navigator itself is all it's cracked up to be. This was beyond disappointing, since I have always used their recommendations for my charitable donations.
Merle Kaufman, NYC
Merle,
I am very sorry you feel disappointed and can assure you that we have as a core value to continuously improve. We made a substantial upgrade of our metrics to minimize the chance we would run into a situation like this again. I hope you will not give up on us. We are not perfect, but we do strive to be the best we can be.
Best,
Ken
I to saw the Anderson Cooper piece. I was happy to find a source to check on the many good and bad charites. Thank you for this service.
Anonymous,
Welcome aboard!
Ken
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