New Review Site Debuts for Haiti Relief Groups

January 20, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute

Two charities that provide information about nonprofit groups to donors — Great Nonprofits and GuideStar — have create a Web site for people to rate and post reviews of relief organizations responding to last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.

“Charity reviews help donors find the nonprofits that are doing the best jobs in Haiti,” Bob Ottenhoff, chief executive of GuideStar, said in a written statement. “At this time in the crisis, when lives are still at risk and suffering is widespread, it’s vital to support effective organizations that can get aid to the people who need it.”

Great Nonprofits and GuideStar say that the review process is ongoing, and the organizations encourage anyone who has firsthand knowledge of the relief groups working in Haiti — as a donor, board member, volunteer, or recipient of the group’s services — to write a review.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.