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Here are some interesting academic research papers on charity ratings:
Ceren Budak and Justin Rao, https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14747″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer Measuring the Efficiency of Charitable Giving with Content Analysis and Crowdsourcing, 2016. This paper shows that the lack of information about charities resulted in 15% of donations being “wasted” by supporting low-performing, inefficient charities. Budak and Rao used Charity Navigator’s ratings on US donations.
Jennifer Mayo, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60ddde1f82e91d0393eb222d/t/627bd46e7fe7c00b0aeb60f2/1652282490540/CN+April+2022+draft.pdf” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer Navigating the Notches: Charity Response to Ratings, April 2022. Mayo’s University of Michigan PhD paper on charity ratings looks at how changes to a charity’s star rating affect donations. Ceren Budak (paper above) is also at University of Michigan. A change in star rating from 3-star to 4-star at Charity Navigator is associated with a 6% rise in donations, with larger effects for small charities. A downgrade in star ratings did not have the same effect as donors hold fast to their beliefs.
 

Charity Intelligence finds https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/153-fresh-start-recovery-centre Fresh Start Recovery Center to be a High impact charity. You have probably seen its impact rating displayed as a grid on our website. It looks like this: 

The graph is a simple plot showing the charity’s impact with a red dot. The vertical axis shows our estimate of a charity’s effectiveness, its proven impact per dollar, relative to the data quality on the horizontal axis. The graph tries to keep impact simple.
Many of you are asking for more information about how Charity Intelligence arrives at this simple red dot. We’re thrilled you want more information about measuring impact. We believe a charity’s impact is the most important factor a donor needs to consider when making giving decisions. 
images/Fresh_Start_Ci_Impact_Slidedoc_June20.pdf Read Charity Intelligence’s report on how we measure Fresh Start’s impact.   
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This images/Fresh_Start_Ci_Impact_Slidedoc_June20.pdf impact report walks you through the details of how we assess Fresh Start’s impact. It outlines the economic variables that create Fresh Start’s total social value created and breaks down where these social values come from. 
Charity Intelligence estimates Fresh Start creates between $15 million and $44 million, with a best estimate of $23 million in social value each year by helping its clients live sober. We calculate this is about $6 of value created for every dollar spent. 
 
What to learn more about impact? 
Charity Intelligence’s https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-profiles/top-10-impact-charities Top 10 Impact Charities 
Impact reports on https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/45-r-d/713-why-indspire-is-high-impact Indspire,  https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/45-r-d/714-eyle-impact-report East York Learning Experience and https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/45-r-d/715-why-is-jump-math-high-impact JUMP Math
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/153-fresh-start-recovery-centre Charity Intelligence’s charity profile on Fresh Start with the standard information about its finances, programs and transparency updated June 21, 2022
 
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“Every investment is an impact investment. The problem is most people don’t know if their investment has positive or negative impact.” 

Charity Intelligence finds https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/609-indspire Indspire to be a High impact charity. You have probably seen its impact rating displayed as a grid on our website. It looks like this: 

The graph is a simple plot showing the charity’s impact with a red dot. The vertical axis shows our estimate of a charity’s effectiveness, its proven impact per dollar, relative to the data quality on the horizontal axis. We find High demonstrated impact. The graph tries to keep impact simple.
Many of you are asking for more information about how Charity Intelligence arrives at this simple red dot. We’re thrilled you want more information about measuring impact. We believe a charity’s impact is the most important factor to consider when making giving decisions. 
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/images/Indspire_Ci_Impact_Slidedoc3.pdf Read Charity Intelligence’s report on how we measure Indspire’s impact. 
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/images/Indspire_Ci_Impact_Slidedoc3.pdf
This  https://www.charityintelligence.ca/images/Indspire_Ci_Impact_Slidedoc3.pdf impact report walks you through the details of how we assess Indspire’s impact. It outlines the economic variables that create Indspire’s total social value created and breaks down where these social values come from. 
Charity Intelligence estimates Indspire creates between $33 million and  $213 million, with a best estimate of $138 million in social value each year by helping students pay for post-secondary education. We calculate this creates $5 of social value for every dollar spent. 
 

WE Charity’s international legacy will continue through WE Charity Foundation (WCF). WCF’s directors and senior staff have long-time involvement with WE Charity. From the sale proceeds of its Toronto real estate for $29.2 million in August 2021, WE Charity transferred $10 million to WE Charity Foundation.
WE Charity Foundation was registered as a Canadian charity in January 2019. Its original directors, WE Charity’s senior management, Dalal Al-Waheidi, Victor Li, and Scott Baker, have stepped aside for new directors.
WE Charity Foundation is now co-chaired by long-time director Gerry Connelly, who has served as a WE Charity (Canada) director since 2013. The other co-chair is Dr. Steve Omenge Johnson Mainda, EBS. Mainda is also a long-serving director of WE Charity’s Kenyan charity, Free the Children Kenya, with Scott Baker and Victor Li.
WE Charity Foundation’s seven directors also include Josh Kahiga Mwangi, Marion Steward, Paul Hughes, Shelmis Wangui Wamweya and Tony Hauser.

 
WE Charity Foundation’s executive team will also be led by WE Charity long-timers, Robin Wiszowaty and Justus Mwendwa. Mwendwa is also a shareholder on record of WE Education Ltd. Inc., a private company in Kenya. Marc Kielburger is one of two directors of WE Education Ltd. Inc.

 
Free the Children Kenya’s charity assets were transferred to WE Education Ltd. Inc. in August 2017.
WE Education Ltd. Inc. (Kenya) is not to be confused with WE Education Ltd., a UK WE social enterprise, nor confused with WE Education Inc., a New York registered business that received some of Craig Kielburgers’ speaker fees.
Former WE Charity US’s director, Tawfiq Rangwala, a New York litigator and high school classmate of Marc Kielburger, reports that WE Education Inc. was the personal company of Craig and Marc Kielburger. From Rangwala’s book, What WE Lost, we learn more about WE Education Inc., the old New York registered private company.
“WE Charity explained to the CBC that WE Education Inc. (New York) was renamed Global Impact Fund Inc. in 2017. Its name was changed when Free the Children became WE Charity to avoid any confusion. Global Impact Fund was founded in 2003 as Kiel Projects Inc. and is personally owned by Craig and Marc Kielburger. It is unrelated to WE Charity, ME to WE, or any charitable or business activities of either entity.
Global Impact Fund receives revenues earned through the Kielburger’s consulting work, their compensation for serving on boards of directors, and their non-WE-related speaking engagements.
This private entity paid for some expenses related to Craig Kielburger’s wedding. WE Education Inc. is unrelated to WE Education for Children Ltd. in Kenya.”  
Learn more at https://www.wecharity.org/financials-and-governance WE Charity Foundation
 
More Charity Intelligence articles:
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/43-charity-news/709-we-charity-closing-the-details WE Charity Closing – the details, June 2022
Report on https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/82-we-charity WE Charity Canada, updated June 2022
 
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Legal disclaimer: The information in this report was prepared by Charity Intelligence Canada and its independent analysts from publicly available information. Charity Intelligence and its analysts have made endeavours to ensure that the data in this report is accurate and complete, but accepts no liability.
The views and opinions expressed are to inform donors on matters of public interest. Views and opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, organization, individual, or anyone or anything. Any dispute arising from your use of this website or viewing this material hereon shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to any conflict of law provisions.

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The Top 10 Impact Charities list includes the 10 charities that have demonstrated the highest value created per dollar spent of all of the charities we have analyzed.
 
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/908-against-malaria-foundation-canada https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/620-canadian-foodgrains-bank https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/983-citizens-foundation-canada https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/165-east-york-learning-experience https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/185-effect-hope https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/153-fresh-start-recovery-centre https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/609-indspire https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/148-jump-math https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/889-lifewater-canada https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/120-operation-eyesight-universal
 
Please also view our 6 additional lists of charities with top impact:

• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=703&catid=37 Top 10 Canadian Impact Charities, charities with high-impact programs in Canada
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=702&catid=37 Top 10 International Impact Charities, Canadian charities with high-impact programs operating overseas
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=701&catid=37 Top 10 Impact: Canadian Food Banks, Canadian food banks creating high impact
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=700&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Canadian Youth Charities, charities creating high-impact results for youth in Canada
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=699&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Calgary Charities
• index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=698&catid=37 Top 5 Impact: Toronto Charities

 
For more information on our impact assessment please view our  social-impact-ratings Social Impact Ratings Methodology or contact Greg Thomson at  mailto:gthomson@charityintelligence.ca gthomson@charityintelligence.ca.
 
 Being entirely funded by donors like you maintains our independence and objectivity to help Canadians be informed in their giving. Canadians donate over $17 billion each year. This giving could achieve tremendous results. We hope Charity Intelligence’s research helps Canadians give better.
 
Legal disclaimer:
The information in this report was prepared by Charity Intelligence Canada and its independent analysts from publicly available information. Charity Intelligence and its analysts have made endeavours to ensure that the data in this report is accurate and complete but accepts no liability.
The views and opinions expressed are to inform donors on matters of public interest. Views and opinions are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, organization, individual, or anyone or anything. Any dispute arising from your use of this website or viewing the material hereon shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to any conflict of law provisions.
“Every investment is an impact investment. The problem is most people don’t know if their investment has positive or negative impact.”