In 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator wrote an open letter to the donors of America in a campaign to end the Overhead Myth—the false conception that financial ratios are the sole indicator of nonprofit performance. For their second letter, released in October 2014, they invited the nonprofits of America to do their part to focus donors’ attention on what really matters: your organization’s efforts to make the world a better place. They ask nonprofits and the social sector at large to join them as we move toward an Overhead Solution.

 

• The Overhead Myth | Moving Toward an Overhead Solution

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• A Graphic Re-visioning of Nonprofit Overhead - Non Profit News For Nonprofit Organizations 

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