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Dec 11, 2009

Mint Gets It Dead Wrong on Picking a Charity

by Tim Ogden

Mint, the very popular “personal finance app,“ has a very interesting post on their blog about charitable giving in the US and elsewhere. The visuals are terrific and there’s plenty of interesting information. Unfortunately, their post ends by telling people they should use the worst way to pick a charity this year. In other words, they give financial advice that is dead wrong.

If you care about ending the harmful myth that overhead ratios are good way of evaluating charities, pay a visit to the Mint blog and tell them they need to fix their post and stop giving bad financial advice.

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Archana

Thanks for pointing out an important misconception about overhead ratios - I’ll go there right now!

Archana
http://southasianphilanthropy.org

January 06, 2010

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