Kinder

Website: https://kinder.world/ Background info: https://charities.kinder.world/static/media/kinder-vetting-framework-version1-2019.24bc591b.pdf Additional info: interview with founder Mathys van Abbe - https://innovationorigins.com/en/kinder-use-your-head-and-let-your-heart-speak/ Email: support@kinder.world

Activity: Measures charity impact, cost effectiveness. Key goals: Business model:
 * "to aid and equip charities with the right knowledge and expertise to transform their work into excellent performance, for real and lasting positive impacts.
 * to create an ‘educated giving culture’, by nurturing donors with fact-based information about charities' work to empower intelligent supporting decisions and actions. Supports that rise and maintain prominent and promising initiatives for lasting positive changes."
 * Evaluation: free of charge
 * Fundraising: 8%

Evaluation steps: "Collect and examine basic and in-depth online information about charities (Kinder Evaluation Framework)"
 * "We have developed a bespoke vetting framework with the help of academics from Impact Centre Erasmus. Strong research backgrounds and thorough training from Kinder’s evaluation experts give our research team the strong foundations to evaluate using our framework. Our analysis of charities is based on publicly available information on these charities’ websites. We’ve analysed over 2500 charities so far, thanks to our research department and a dedicated team of more than 60 vetting volunteers over the past years."
 * "Our current evaluation framework consists of two stages, Basic and In-depth Analyses. Each stage has ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vetting questions such as “Does the organisation publish their financial statements?” We only use the information on organisations’ websites to answer these questions because we believe everyone, researcher or not, should have access to the answers."

Stage 1: Basic Analysis
 * "This stage focuses on five criteria indicating basic accessibility and transparency. These requirements are:
 * Being easily reachable
 * Providing information about the organisation’s board members and key staff
 * Publishing financial statements
 * Making the charities’ strategic plans public
 * Dealing with controversy appropriately (if applicable)
 * Use our findings to consult charities to improve their performance (Charity Zone)
 * Use our findings to drive donors towards fact-based giving decisions (United Actions, and Charity Reports)

Stage 2: In-depth Analysis 1) Strategy 2) Programs 3) Research 4) Responsibility"
 * We believe every charity should have the capacity to plan well for the future, monitor and evaluate their own programs closely, perceive and collect crucial data, engage with research, reflect on past mistakes, strive to act ethically and with integrity, and communicate openly about its work with the public.
 * Charities with strong organisational skills and information transparency are more accountable — and are likely to get things done effectively. In this stage, we have four criteria, each containing several sub-categories and 41 vetting questions in total. These criteria are:

"Stage 1 and 2 are our currently active evaluation stages."