From the Bridge Conference: Your Mission or Your Overhead Ratio?

The issue of fundraising overhead ratios and the ways in which charity watchdogs evaluate nonprofit organizations has been at the forefront of the fundraising sector for a while now, and it's an issue that isn't going away anytime soon.

We have covered it here at FundRaising Success many times over, but never quite as aggressively as Steve Nardizzi, executive director of Wounded Warrior Project, did yesterday at the 9th Annual Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Conference. In his opening keynote session, "Your Mission or Your Overhead Ratio — Which Should Be Priority #1 in Your Organization?," Nardizzi came out swinging against charity watchdog organizations like Charity Navigator and CharityWatch — those that rate nonprofits and tell donors to only donate to ones that meet their ratings standards — and the media that spread negative views of nonprofits and fundraising.