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Yesterday, I was trying to decide where to donate my latest batch of change (ultimately donated to OLPC). While I was looking at various organizations, I wished there was a site for nonprofits along the lines of Yelp or Amazon, and posted this thought on Twitter.
This resulted in a brief conversation between me and Michael Hoffman (who evidently reads every Tweet containing the word "nonprofit"). Two links he provided were Change.org and Changents, social networking sites focused on social change. Another, Charity Navigator is the site of a nonprofit organization that catalogs and evaluates other nonprofit organizations, which is more like what I was thinking of, except an expert-based instead of a crowdsourced approach.
Of course, maybe crowdsourcing isn't effective in this context. The average donor doesn't necessarily have the means to accurately evaluate whether a nonprofit is effective and efficient (although I'd hope such a site would benefit from the comments of beneficiaries and insiders as well).
This resulted in a brief conversation between me and Michael Hoffman (who evidently reads every Tweet containing the word "nonprofit"). Two links he provided were Change.org and Changents, social networking sites focused on social change. Another, Charity Navigator is the site of a nonprofit organization that catalogs and evaluates other nonprofit organizations, which is more like what I was thinking of, except an expert-based instead of a crowdsourced approach.
Of course, maybe crowdsourcing isn't effective in this context. The average donor doesn't necessarily have the means to accurately evaluate whether a nonprofit is effective and efficient (although I'd hope such a site would benefit from the comments of beneficiaries and insiders as well).