Civil Society plays an increasingly important role in international human and social welfare. The most important prerequisite for the development of the NGO sector is a steady level of trust and engagement from society. This public trust and engagement is based the organization’s level of accountability.
Charity Star is an independent nonprofit organization working to establish an international standard for NGO accountability. We believe in an open society where access to information is key in building trust and engagement.
Our work includes research and advocacy within the field of NGO governance.

Businesses that view customers solely as consumers miss the opportunity of a more complex and interdependent relationship writes Suresh Ariaratnam – literary agent for Surya Lumen.
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Hungarian politicians are drafting the country’s first law criminalising domestic violence, a move that received support from an Read full article
unlikely source: a cosmetics company.
IBM and AT&T headlined the 50 corporations that were the most active in their communities, according to a list released by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), Points of Light (PoL), and Bloomberg LP.
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Charitable giving by America’s biggest businesses rose slowly last year and shows little sign of gaining in 2012, according to a Chronicle study of 166 large companies.
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world a better place. Now more than ever, consumers are making
decisions based on companies’ social agendas — and market
share hangs in the balance.
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