Your BBB Foundation serving northwest Florida is releasing its first Charity Giving Guide. Although BBB has issued Wise Giving Reports on charities locally and has made them available free-of-charge for several years, this is the first time your BBB Foundation has produced a guide with the results of the charity review evaluations of all the charities in your BBB’s local database.
BBB reviews local charities against BBB’s 20 Standards for Charity Accountability, providing the only source for evaluative information about charities in northwest Florida. The Standards, developed over a three-year period with input from nonprofit representatives, IRS officials, foundation executives, donors and other stakeholder groups, provide an objective means to evaluate a charity’s governance and oversight, measurement of effectiveness, finances and fundraising and informational materials.
“As we approach the holiday season, donors are often overwhelmed with requests for assistance,” said Norman Wright, President/CEO of your BBB serving northwest Florida. “We hope that donors will use the Charity Giving Guide to make wise giving decisions and that charities will use the Standards for Charitable Accountability as a guide for ‘best practices’ in operating their organizations.”
For a copy of the Charity Giving Guide, produced by your BBB Foundation serving northwest Florida, please
click here. (Please Note: This file is in a PDF format which requires your system to have the free
Adobe Reader)