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25-578: There are more than 400 CGMA Representatives in 96 shore units and 38 cutters based in 32 states and territories, including Puerto Rico and Guam. CGMA receives no federal funds and relies on bequests and donations from Coast Guard people. Most of its financial assistance is provided through interest-free loans and personal grants. The assistance covers educational support, emergency travel, temporary living expenses, funeral expenses, loss of funds or property, disaster relief, medical and dental expenses, home studies expenses for adoptions, and debt management. CGMA has

50-490: A Money Management Innovation for "helping millions of people become philanthropists", and it was on Time magazine 's top 50 websites of 2006 list. In a 2014 Chronicle of Philanthropy interview on the nonprofit sector, journalist Nicholas Kristof identified it with a trend he deplored: "There is too much emphasis on inputs and not enough on impact", Kristof said. "This has been worsened by an effort to create more accountability through sites like Charity Navigator. There

75-410: A charity's efficiency can be graded based on a tax return. Particularly relevant to Charity Navigator's methodology in 1999 was that 59% of the 58,000 charities receiving public donations in 1999 failed to report any fundraising expenditures, illustrating a potential problem with relying on Form 990 figures alone when analyzing an organization. Charity Navigator rates the 6% of charity organizations in

100-499: A four-star rating from Charity Navigator . The Supplemental Education Grant (SEG) program was enhanced in 2015 and doubled in 2023. There is also a Layette Program that supplies a baby's supplies-related package for the family. In 2017, CGMA provided 6 million dollars to its clients. During the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown , CGMA helped lower-ranking Coast Guard members pay for food and other expenses. Those with dependences received up to $ 1,000. The Coast Guard

125-1110: A local-language partnership with the Leping Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship , to produce copies of the magazine in book form translated into simplified Chinese. In 2018, they added a South Korean edition in partnership with Hanyang University . Since then, they have added editions in Arabic and Spanish (in 2020), and Japanese (2021) with various partners. SSIR seeks to present interesting, original, and important ideas about social innovation to leaders who can put those ideas to work. To that end, SSIR accepts submissions for six types of editorial articles (Book Review, Case Study, Feature, Field Report, Viewpoint, and What's Next) for their quarterly print edition. Additionally, SSIR Online accepts submissions of shorter works—typically of 1,200 to 2,000 words. SSIR has won several Maggie Awards for Best Quarterly (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) and Best Web Publication (2016), Eddie Awards (2011, 2014), an Ozzie Award for its website (2014), and Min's Best of

150-433: A revised rating system would also include measures of accountability (including transparency, governance, and management practices) as well as outcomes (the results of the work of the charity). In July 2010, Charity Navigator announced its first major revamp. This revamping began what the organization stated is the process to move toward CN 3.0, which is a three-dimensional rating system that would include what they consider

175-616: A wide range of topics, including human rights, impact investing , and nonprofit business models. SSIR is published by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University . The publication was founded in 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation (CSI), a Hewlett Foundation grantee at the Stanford Graduate School of Business . Now, SSIR receives about 2.5 million total unique visitors annually. Outside of

200-497: Is so much emphasis now on expense ratios that there is an underinvestment in administration and efficiency." A 2014 survey of attitudes toward charity evaluation indicated positive results for Charity Navigator in six of seven categories. In October 2020, Charity Navigator acquired impact-based charity evaluator ImpactMatters . In August 2023, Charity Navigator acquired Causeway, a philanthropy technology startup. Using publicly available tax returns ( IRS Form 990 ) filed with

225-479: Is written by and for social change leaders from around the world and from all sectors of society—nonprofits, foundations, business, government, and engaged citizens. SSIR 's mission is to advance, educate, and inspire the field of social innovation by seeking out, cultivating, and disseminating the best in research- and practice-based knowledge. With print and online articles, webinars, conferences, podcasts, and more, SSIR bridges research, theory, and practice on

250-534: The Internal Revenue Service and information posted by charities on their web sites, the Charity Navigator rating system bases its evaluations in two broad areas—financial health and accountability/transparency. Based on these criteria charities are awarded one to four stars. In the early years, the group's methodology was the subject of some criticism for its approach at the time. This method

275-690: The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, and the executive director of CGMA. The members of the BOC who are elected represent the constituencies served by CGMA. Monthly meetings are held at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and members generally reside in the greater DC area . Charity Navigator Charity Navigator is a charity assessment organization that evaluates hundreds of thousands of charitable organizations based in

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300-657: The US, the site receives the most traffic from Canada, India, the UK, the Philippines, and Australia. SSIR frequently publishes in-depth series in partnership with organizations such as the Bridgespan Group , Mission Investors Exchange, BBB's Give.org , Third Sector Capital Partners , and The Communications Network. SSIR aims to advance, educate, and inspire the field of social innovation by seeking out, cultivating, and disseminating

325-611: The United States that have over $ 1 million in annual revenue (these 6% get 94% of the revenues that come into the nonprofit sector each year). In December 2008, President and CEO Ken Berger announced on his blog that the organization intended to expand its rating system to include measures of the outcomes of the work of charities it evaluated. This was described in further detail in a podcast for The Chronicle of Philanthropy in September 2009. The article explained that plans for

350-409: The United States, operating as a free 501(c)(3) organization . It provides insights into a nonprofit's financial stability, adherence to best practices for both accountability and transparency, and results reporting. It is the largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities in the United States. It does not accept any advertising or donations from the organizations it evaluates. Charity Navigator

375-454: The best in research- and practice-based knowledge. SSIR was launched in 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business . Beginning in 2010, SSIR has been published at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). Nonprofit terms such as the nonprofit starvation cycle and collective impact were first given prominence by SSIR in 2009 and 2011, respectively. The latter term

400-614: The chief executive of GuideStar . Form 990 categorizes a charity's expenditures into three broad categories that are open to accounting manipulation. The nonprofit sector does not have the strict financial regulation and transparency required from public corporations (under the Securities Act of 1933 , the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 , and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , among others), creating limitations on how accurately

425-493: The critical elements to consider in making a wise charitable investment After collecting data for more than a year, in September 2011 Charity Navigator launched CN 2.0, which is a two-dimensional rating system that rates a charity's: (1) financial health, and (2) accountability and transparency. In January 2013, Charity Navigator announced another expansion to its rating methodology, "Results Reporting: The Third Dimension of Intelligent Giving". Because mission-related results are

450-423: The organization to increase the total number of rated nonprofits from 9,000 to 160,000 at launch. The rating system launched with the first key indicator, Finance & Accountability, with a plan to release additional indicators over the next 18–24 months. Some charities, in response, began to supply more information. The New York Times reported in 2010 that one non-profit began "reporting on its finances using

475-518: The same format as the 10-K ." In response to an op-ed authored by Charity Navigator's CEO entitled "The Elitist Philanthropy of so-called Effective Altruism", the cofounder of the Centre for Effective Altruism wrote "What Charity Navigator Gets Wrong About Effective Altruism". Stanford Social Innovation Review Stanford Social Innovation Review ( SSIR ) is a magazine and website that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems. SSIR

500-474: The very reason that charities exist, Charity Navigator developed this new rating dimension to specifically examine how well charities report on their results. The new rankings now include "various criteria, including ... privacy policies". In July 2020, Charity Navigator announced an additional nonprofit rating system, Encompass. The new Encompass Rating System analyzes nonprofit performance based on four key indicators: This alternative methodology allows

525-525: Was criticized in a 2005 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review for (at the time) taking into account only a single year's IRS Form 990. This approach can lead to significant fluctuation in the ranking of a charity from year to year. Also, the focus on the IRS Form 990 has itself been criticized, as the accuracy and reliability of IRS Form 990 data may be questionable, according to

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550-558: Was introduced by John Kania and Mark Kramar in their article "Collective Impact", and became the number two philanthropy buzzword for 2011, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy . It has also been recognized by the White House Council for Community Solutions . Since 2006, SSIR has hosted the annual Nonprofit Management Institute conference, a multi-day conference for senior-level nonprofit executives. In 2015, SSIR hosted its first annual Data on Purpose conference, which

575-534: Was launched in spring 2001 by John P. (Pat) Dugan, a pharmaceutical executive and philanthropist. The group's mission was to help "donors make informed giving decisions and enabling well-run charities to demonstrate their commitment to proper stewardship" of donor dollars. Over the years, the group grew from 1,100 to over 200,000 charities. As of 2009, four percent of the charities it evaluated had earned at least five consecutive 4-star ratings. In 2011, Kiplinger's Personal Finance selected Charity Navigator as

600-641: Was the only military branch to go without pay during the shutdown because it is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security and not the Department of Defense . CGMA has a number of programs, including: CGMA is governed by a board of directors called the Board of Control (BOC). The officers of the corporation include the Commandant of the Coast Guard , the Assistant Commandant for Human Resources,

625-852: Was then combined with the Do Good Data conference in 2017. In 2016, SSIR hosted the inaugural Frontiers of Social Innovation, a forum for global leaders. SSIR has also hosted the "SSIR Live!" webinar series since 2009. On 10 March 2021 SSIR hosted a webinar on "Creating Impact in a Volatile World — Lessons Learned from the Front Lines", moderated by Eric Nee, Editor-in-Chief SSIR. The presenters were Jim Bildner, CEO of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Kruti Bharucha, founder and CEO of Peepul India, Rebecca Taber Staehelin, cofounder and co-CEO of Merit America, Tatiana Garcia-Granados, cofounder and COO of The Common Market and Claire Chamberlain, managing director for Social Impact at Blackrock. In 2017, SSIR launched

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