GreatNonprofits

GreatNonprofits is a young organization which provides a platform for beneficiaries, volunteers, and other stakeholders to share their opinions about nonprofits. GreatNonprofits is integrating its stakeholder feedback mechanism with several other major websites, including Guidestar and Charity Navigator, and thus expanding its reach and potential impact. Individual reviews are not a valid way of judging nonprofit impact, but in aggregate the reviews can provide a useful perspective on organizations--as well as a potentially-powerful accountability mechanism.

GreatNonprofits provides a public platform for beneficiaries, volunteers, and other stakeholders to share their opinions about nonprofits—they have referred to themselves as "Zagat for Nonprofits." So far, GreatNonprofits has collected approximately 80,000 reviews. By themselves, individual reviews are not a valid way of judging nonprofit impact, but in aggregate the reviews can be an important part of a multi-dimensional look at nonprofit performance, and provide a potentially-powerful accountability mechanism. GreatNonprofits has been a leader in linking together many giving websites and has fully integrated with both GuideStar and Charity Navigator.

GreatNonprofits gives beneficiaries, volunteers, and other stakeholders a public platform to share their opinions about nonprofits. By themselves, individual reviews are not a valid way to judge nonprofits’ impact; however, in aggregate, they provide an important multidimensional look at performance and a potentially powerful mechanism for accountability. .