Submitted by Alan Donaldson
Boys & Girls Club
June 27, 2016 2:00 p.m.
This month, Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County Foundation was awarded a perfect, 100%, Four- Star rating by Charity Navigator (CN). This highly-respected ratings organization publishes annual assessments of some 8,000 non-profits, nation-wide. Only 49 charities in the USA are recognized as “perfect” and the local Boys & Girls organization made that list!
CN looks at a number of factors in arriving at their ratings but concentrate on financial accountability, transparency and application of funds raised. Major factors relate to percent of a non-profit’s expenses used for programs versus administration and for fund-raising. This year CN adopted standards based on a three-year analysis of how the non-profit performed, rather than the previous one-year rating.
CN states that they are trying to come up with a rating for how well each non-profit performs its mission, a very difficult analysis considering the great diversity in objectives among charities. But the current CN ratings system provides great assurance to donors that a non-profit which earns a high rating is spending its money primarily on its goals, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County is one of the few at the top!
Congratulations to the Club for this recognition and to their management for their careful stewardship.