Friday, April 05, 2013

Charity Navigator 3.0: The Empirical Empire’s Death Star? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Charity Navigator 3.0: The Empirical Empire’s Death Star? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: Editor’s Note: The following essay, written by William Schambra, the director of the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, is one part of a two-part point/counterpoint series. The other essay in this series, by Charity Navigator President and CEO Ken Berger, is available here.



The empire of empiricism – the kingdom of counting, the sultanate of statistics – continues its relentless march from conquest to conquest. Thanks to Charity Navigator, metrics is now poised to seize the commanding heights of the nonprofit sector, having long ago conquered and thoroughly colonized the land of philanthropy.

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