Women and girls are disproportionally affected. They face extraordinary dangers to secure food, and yet, too often eating last and eating least. This is their story. Today, inequality has reached extreme levels in the West Africa region. While a small but growing group of people becomes fantastically rich, a majority of citizens are denied the most essential elements of a dignified life like access to quality education, healthcare and decent jobs.
A year ago, the barrier to beating Covid was science. Today it is inequality. Rich countries are hoarding vaccines and protecting the profits of their pharmaceutical corporations instead of saving lives. The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission. Engaging with external partners and audiences to advance Oxfam's mission is at the core of all of our work.
Senior leadership regularly provides thought leadership in a range of fora, from high-level UN panels to business roundtables to virtual townhalls with Member of Congress. Leadership also plays an active role in building and strengthening partnerships with other NGOs, businesses, elected officials, universities, and community organizers.
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year. With compass, we were able to pivot to respond to the rapid onset of COVID and its global and US economic, social and political impact, as well as racial injustice uprisings and US political volatility through the elections. While all demanded rapid shifts, the marginalization and inequality that our strategy targeted only heightened in importance.
Times of crisis are also when great leaps forward in social and economic justice are possible. Our strategy anticipated a highly volatile future; we had spent time on imagining different possible future scenarios — this helped us respond quickly. We rapidly accelerated aspects of our initial strategic horizons: Open and collaborative partnerships with US partners, allies, country teams, and supporters, and Rapid experimentation with digital engagement and virtual collaboration.
Building from a longer-term effort to ground our work in intersectional feminist principles, we accelerated with a commitment to become an anti-racist organization. Our early focus was on identifying, learning from and amplifying racial justice allies and launching a racial equity journey that complements planned DEI initiatives.
We responded with allies to increasingly existential threats to our mission —whether erosion of US democratic institutions or closing civic space globally. We complement specific advocacy work, like on the rights of refugees, with calls for voting rights and protection of human rights defenders. We have made permanent shifts to how we work, using virtual technology to collaborate globally in new ways. This score provides an assessment of the organization's engagement with the constituents it serves, a practice we term Constituent Feedback.
When organizations listen to constituents, they are able to better deliver on programs and meet the needs of stakeholders. A future version of this Beacon will also assess an organization's people operations and its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion DEI metrics. Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to fill out the How We Listen section of their Candid profile. Constituent Feedback and Listening Practice data are not available for this organization. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations that engage in inclusive practices, such as collecting feedback from the people and communities they serve, may be more effective.
We award every nonprofit that completes the Candid survey full credit for this Beacon, in recognition of their willingness to publicly share this information with the nonprofit and philanthropic communities. Although the data is not evaluated for quality at this time, future iterations of this Beacon will include third party or other data that will serve to validate the information provided by the nonprofit.
Our partnership with Feedback Labs and Guidestar by Candid , and other partners including Fund for Shared Insight, GlobalGiving, and Keystone Accountability, enables us to launch the first version of this beacon with Constituent Feedback information collected on Candid's site. Feedback practices have been shown to support better Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion outcomes, an essential area of assessment that we intend to further expand and develop in the future.
Feedback Labs has documented several studies which indicate that beyond achieving organizational goals, nonprofits that are attentive and responsive to concerns and ideas raised by beneficiaries establish stronger relationships with the people they serve, promote greater equity, and empower constituents in ways that can help to ensure better long-term outcomes. You can find resources to help nonprofits improve their feedback practices here.
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Star Rated Report. Financial Performance Metrics. Fundraising Expenses. Fundraising Efficiency. Working Capital Ratio. Program Expense Growth. Liabilities to Assets. Program Expense. Program Expense Ratio Administrative Expenses 7. Fundraising Expenses Liabilities to Assets Ratio Working Capital Ratio 0.
Program Expense Growth 1. Governance Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the Form that the organization has these governance practices in place. More The presence of an independent governing body is strongly recommended by many industry professionals to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. Our analysts check the Form to determine if the independent Board members are a voting majority and also at least five in number.
Less No Material Diversion of Assets More A diversion of assets — any unauthorized conversion or use of the organization's assets other than for the organization's authorized purposes, including but not limited to embezzlement or theft — can seriously call into question a charity's financial integrity.
This metric will be assigned to one of the following categories: Full Credit: There has been no diversion of assets within the last two years. Partial Credit: There has been a diversion of assets within the last two years and the charity has used Schedule O on the Form to explain: the nature of the diversion, the amount of money or property involved and the corrective action taken to address the matter.
In this situation, we deduct 7 points from the charity's Accountability and Transparency score. No Credit: There has been a diversion of assets within the last two years and the charity's explanation on Schedule O is either non-existent or not sufficient.
In this case, we deduct 15 points from the charity's Accountability and Transparency score. More Audited financial statements provide important information about financial accountability and accuracy. Partial Credit: The charity's audited financials were prepared by an independent accountant, but it did not have an audit oversight committee.
In this case, we deduct 7 points from the charity's Accountability and Transparency score. No Credit: The charity did not have its audited financials prepared by an independent accountant.
More Making loans to related parties such as key officers, staff, or Board members, is not standard practice in the sector as it may divert the charity's funds away from its charitable mission and can lead to real and perceived conflict-of-interest problems.
This practice is discouraged by sector trade groups which point to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act when they call for charities to refrain from making loans to directors and executives. And the IRS is concerned enough with the practice that it requires charities to disclose on their Form any loans to or from current and former officers, directors, trustees, key employees, and other "disqualified persons. Furthermore, it is problematic because it is an indicator that the organization is not financially secure.
Less Documents Board Meeting Minutes More An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference. Charities are not required to make their Board meeting minutes available to the public.
As such, we are not able to review and critique their minutes. We commit to living our values so that we can be known for our integrity. This means transforming our governance, management, and operational structures, and nurturing a culture of continuous learning and reflection.
We understand that how we work is as important as what we work on. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities. We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world. We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
We take responsibility for our action and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for. We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes. Paulina Sibanda sits with her daughter Tafara outside their home in Zvishevane region, Zimbabwe. Paulina is a beneficiary of the Oxfam We-Care project and received a fuel-efficient wood stove and as well as a solar panel. We are committed to working with others as part of a global movement for social justice.
We understand that inequality is multi-dimensional, and mobilize to transform unjust systems. We advocate for just and fairer economies. We strive for gender justice and for the rights of women and girls in all their diversity. We fight for climate justice and create safe spaces that allow people to hold the powerful into account.
We provide local partners grants for their anti-poverty programs and work with them to build alliances, networks, and effective organizations that will eventually be self-sufficient. Most importantly, we work with our partners to learn; what they teach us about the best solutions to poverty is just as valuable as the funding and collaboration we provide them.
When someone is denied the right to own land, the right to education, access to basic services like clean water , a fair price for the crops they grow, or a fair wage for the work they do , the result is poverty. Fighting injustice is an essential means to ending poverty. Our local partners do the work, so the results are theirs.
Locally informed and locally driven solutions to poverty are the best solutions—the most sustainable and the most appropriate—because they come from the people who can keep the initiatives going after Oxfam and its funding goes away.
Poverty makes people vulnerable to calamities—from armed conflicts to earthquakes. Poverty forces people to live in violent areas or to build their houses with flimsy materials in locations vulnerable to floods and landslides. But even the poorest countries can ensure local leaders have the funds and training they need to mount an effective disaster response, and prepare for future emergencies.
We help people in vulnerable communities to reduce their risks, and to advocate with their governments to support their efforts. By educating people about their rights , we help to build strong communities that compel governments and other institutions to deliver on their responsibilities.
When citizens hold their governments accountable, they can change the systems that keep people trapped in poverty. Oxfam has more than 75 years of experience.
Last year we worked with 3, partner organizations in more than 60 countries. We know what it takes to end poverty and we are mobilizing people and resources worldwide to make it happen. Decision makers rarely consult poor people about major issues like international trade agreements, climate change , or how wealthy countries administer foreign aid programs that are supposed to help them.
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