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.

“Impact investment has had low visibility with institutional investors, because so far it hasn’t been able to express itself sufficiently well in financial terms”, London-based social entrepreneurs Karl Richter warns.
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As an increasing number of charities start to get to grips with measuring their impact, the next hurdle many of them are facing is how they can best communicate it.
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New research reveals that most organizations prioritize the wrong skills in their search for a measurement director.
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PerformWell, a Web site more than two years in the making, is designed to help social-service groups collect and analyze real-time data to help them improve programs and measure their impact.
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CFG, NPC and ACEVO have today launched Principles into Practice: How charities and social enterprises communicate impact.
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