Comments on: Eight Consecutive Four-Star Ratings From Charity Navigator

By: geri

geri — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:47:45 +0000

I found Compassion International through the Charity Navigator. I was looking for a charity with good ratings and compassion came up. I gave to a try and now 7 years later and 8 kids, it is still my favourite child sponsorship organisation.
Geri

By: Jill Foley

Jill Foley — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:38:31 +0000

Way to go…can’t wait to hear about the 9th consecutive 4 star rating!

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:43:22 +0000

In addition to Judith’s post about using the 4 star rating from Charity Navigator, Charity Navigator has another new report that is useful. Many people think that non-profit organizations should have their staff take a vow of poverty and essentially volunteer all their time rather than compensate the staff fairly. I personally feel that it is important to compensate staff appropriately for their experience and position. Charity Navigator released a report about CEO compensation, which apparently is their fifth annual report. For charities that have over 13.5 million in total expenses the average CEO pay $286,760, and for those with expenses over 100 million (like Compassion) the average CEO pay is $462,037. According to Charity Navigator, Wess Stafford, Compassion CEO, makes less than HALF of the average CEO of a non-profit with total expenses of over 100 million! One sentence from the report that I liked about how the report was not designed to malign large non-profits, ‘Rather, we want donors to understand and appreciate that the top nonprofit leaders, those who are sought after for their ability to manage multi-million dollar institutions and who are tasked with the mammoth goal of making the world a better place, command significant salaries’

Report: http://www.charitynavigator.org/__asset__/_etc_/cn_ceo_compensation_study_2009.pdf

By: Sheri Beck

Sheri Beck — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:38:55 +0000

Praise God for His faithfulness to this ministry, and for all the hands that help make it happen!

By: Sarah Charles

Sarah Charles — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:31:04 +0000

This is one of the things I love about Compassion. Your money is going where they say it is going.

By: Judith Tremblay

Judith Tremblay — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:22:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This is so important for many of us, as we share our experience with Compassion with others. Whether it’s a potential sponsor sorting through the several organizations doing the “same” thing (child sponsorship), why should they choose Compassion–especially if it costs more than (some of) the others? This post is an answer. Compassion has been proven to get the money where it tells us it’s going to go.

And I also love the bit about partnering with local churches–mainly for the mission of releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name, but also because it seems to do something with accounting, so that the funds don’t get “stuck” in a government somehow.

(Someone please correct that last statement if I’m wrong! I don’t want to be misinformed, to make sure I pass along correct information to other sponsors.)

By: Amy Wallace

Amy Wallace — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:07:40 +0000

Way to go Compassion!!!!

Man, I am so thankful I went to that Newsboys concert 3 years ago and was introduced to Compassion.