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Ethics & accountability · Calling out concerns to leadership

Your organization publicly touts that 90 cents of every dollar goes to programs, but you know the real overhead is much higher once you count how certain costs are classified. Leadership relies on that figure to fundraise. Do you raise it, and how?

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A program-ratio claim the public relies on to give has to be defensible on our Form 990, so if our classification is stretching costs into 'program' to hit 90 cents, that's a misrepresentation I have to raise.

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