Questions about whether a particular charity fulfils its aims are being asked with increasing frequency these days, and quite right too. It’s no longer enough for a charity to have good intentions. They need to show that they’re putting those intentions to some sort of use because money is tight and need is high. There is an important point here about how we judge the kinds of services that are delivered by charities.
The general assumption is that it is rather hard to judge how a charity performs. There is an absence of standardised and comparable measurement, and the evidence from evaluations is of poor quality. Some charities go so far as to say that evidencing the value of their work is simply impossible. One such charity is Kids Company, a charity founded in London in 1996 by Camila Batmanghelidjh, which has an unusual model, a significant media profile and influence beyond its size.
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