How To Vet A Non-Profit Before Donating

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Research their outcomes
You may find plenty of articles about initiatives, but what about the outcome? If a non-profit had this event or hosted this challenge or had this fundraiser for a certain cause, what happened then? How much did they raise? And were they able to do some good? Follow the thread of that story to the end. Sometimes, a non-profit puts out a lot of press about an initiative, and then things fall apart. But they don’t publish that part.