Kent Animal Shelter gets top rating from Charity Navigator
Kent Animal Shelter is thrilled to announce it has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator.
Key factors in the top rating are our strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency. This coveted distinction reserved for the world’s top-rated charities now includes for the first time, Kent Animal Shelter. “Kent Animal Shelter exceptional 4-star rating sets it apart from its peers and demonstrates its trustworthiness to the public,” according to Michael Thatcher, President & CEO of Charity Navigator. “Only a quarter of charities rated by Charity Navigator receive the distinction of our 4-star rating. This adds Kent Animal Shelter to a preeminent group of charities working to overcome our world’s most pressing challenges. Based on its 4-star rating, people can trust that their donations are going to a financially responsible and ethical charity when they decide to support Kent Animal Shelter."
”It’s important our donors trust that we’re using their donations wisely to accomplish our mission of rescue, adoption, low cost spay/neuter and humane education for the betterment of the welfare of homeless animals,” said Pamela Green. “Our 4-star Charity Navigator rating demonstrates to our supporters our good governance and financial accountability.”
Since 2002, using objective analysis, Charity Navigator has awarded only the most fiscally responsible organizations a 4-star rating. In 2011, Charity Navigator added 17 metrics, focused on governance and ethical practices as well as measures of openness, to its ratings methodology. These Accountability & Transparency metrics, which account for 50 percent of a charity’s overall rating, reveal which charities operate in accordance with industry best practices and whether they are open with their donors and stakeholders. On June 1, 2016, it upgraded its methodology for rating each charity’s’ financial health with CN 2.1. These enhancements further substantiates the financial health of our four star charities. Kent Animal Shelter’s rating and other information about charitable giving are available free of charge on www.charitynavigator.org. More-detailed information about Kent Animal Shelter’s rating is available to Charity Navigator site visitors who become registered users, another free service.
About Charity Navigator Charity Navigator, www.charitynavigator.org, is the largest charity evaluator in America and its website attracts more visitors than all other charity rating groups combined. The organization helps guide intelligent giving by evaluating the Financial Health and Accountability & Transparency of more than 8,000 charities. Charity Navigator accepts no advertising or donations from the organizations it evaluates, ensuring unbiased evaluations, nor does it charge the public for this trusted data. As a result, Charity Navigator, a 501 (c) (3) public charity itself, depends on support from individuals, corporations and foundations that believe it provides a much-needed service to America's charitable givers. Charity Navigator, can be reached directly by telephone at (201) 818-1288, or by mail at 139 Harristown Road, Suite 101, Glen Rock, N.J., 07452.
