What do good charities look like?

Here are a few sites to help inform you on proper operations and management of Non-Profit Organizations…
(Excerpts from their websites)

CharityWatch, founded more than 20 years ago as the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), is America’s most independent,
assertive charity watchdog. CharityWatch does not merely repeat what a charity reports using simplistic or automated formulas. We dive deep to let you know how efficiently a charity will use your donation to fund the programs you want to support. CharityWatch exposes nonprofit abuses and advocates for your interests as a donor.

Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In our quest to help donors, our team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. We’ve used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 8,000 of America’s best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities.

Learn more on America’s worst charities:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/worst-charities/

http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/