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Charity Navigator is an independent American nonprofit corporation that evaluates charities in the United States. Its stated goal is "to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace in which givers and the charities they support work in tandem to overcome our nation’s and the world’s most persistent challenges". ==About== Charity Navigator was launched in spring 2001 by John P. (Pat) Dugan, a wealthy 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.〔Overholt, Alison. (Charitable Deductions: Charity Navigator dares to hold the nation's nonprofits accountable for their fund-raising ), August 2003.〕 Initially, Charity Navigator provided financial ratings for 1,100 charities. Charity Navigator announced plans to evaluate 10,000 charities in the United States by 2016, along with organizations with international operations. The site also features opinion pieces (articles and two blog sites) by Charity Navigator experts, donation tips, and top-10 and bottom-10 lists that rank efficient and inefficient organizations in a number of categories. Annually, Charity Navigator conducts a national study to determine and analyze any statistical differences that exist in the financial practices of charities in metropolitan markets across America. The service is free, and the site is navigable by charity name, location or type of activity. Charity Navigator is a 501(c)(3) organization that accepts no advertising or donations from the organizations it evaluates. In 2006 ''Time'' magazine named it in one of the 50 top websites of the year. In 2011, ''Kiplinger's Personal Finance'' selected Charity Navigator as a Money Management Innovation for "helping millions of people become philanthropists", putting it in the same category as Mint.com, TurboTax and Mobile Banking Apps. In a September 15, 2014 Chronicle of Philanthropy interview on the non-profit sector, Nicholas Kristof identified Charity Navigator 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 is so much emphasis now on expense ratios that there is an underinvestment in administration and efficiency."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inspiring People to Make a Difference )〕 In a 2014 survey of attitudes toward charity evaluation seals shaping donor decisions about a charity, Charity Navigator's was rated six of seven on a list of those presented in the survey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Survey: Do Ratings From Watchdog Groups Impact Giving Decisions? )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charity Navigator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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