New Web Database for Non-Profit Reviews and Info

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Taking a cue from the online field test movement, a group of Stanford University students created greatnonprofits.org - where volunteers, nonprofit workers, donors and the needy rate the charities they encounter…

Most of the charities reviewed on her site are small, with an average of two people on the payroll, 30 volunteers and an annual budget of $180,000. They don’t have the money for marketing, and their work goes largely unnoticed, she said.

After a beta test, Ni’s Web site went live in June. To date, 400 nonprofits have been reviewed, the bulk of them in the Bay Area. More than 1 million U.S. charities are in the Web site’s database, waiting to be reviewed.

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Source: S.F. Chronicle