Ask post: Finding a high-performance charity

Geremiah, all of the comments above are associating "good" with "responsible, not a fraud, doesn't spend too much on overhead." If that's what "good" means to you, use one of them.

To me, "good" means "helping people as well as possible." As with any organization trying to do difficult things - whether helping people thousands of miles away or selling refridgerators - "not a fraud" is a tiny, tiny, tiny piece of being good. I hope the intent of your question is to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Holden0 at 9:00 AM on December 30, 2007 marked best answer