About Development Ratings
Mission
Development Ratings’ mission is to help increase the amount of unrestricted funds available to the most effective charities fighting poverty in some of the least developed countries in the world.
Vision
Development Ratings has a vision of a transparent marketplace for charitable work in which the impact that individual charities have on their beneficiaries is as clear as possible to donors. Development Ratings seeks to be an innovator in establishing rigorous and authoritative guidelines for measuring the effectiveness of charities. Development Ratings believes in using its innovative research methodology to identify effective charities and for donors to support the core organisational capacity of these charities rather than earmarking their funds for specific projects. Development Ratings aims to establish long-term partnerships both between itself and the charities it recommends and between donors and the charities they support.
Impact
Evidence of our impact includes:
- Direct donations to our recommended charities as a result of our ratings.
- Charities streamlining and improving their processes and strategy as a result of the interactive rating process.
- Charities making public results information that they did not publish before being rating by Development Ratings.
- Improved accounting details including expenditure breakdown by countries and detailed donor or beneficiary information, as charities become aware that this information is useful for donors.
- Use of Development Ratings ratings research in charities’ own documents, such as in the trustees’ report.
Corporate information
Development Ratings CIC is regulated by the UK Companies Act as a Community Interest Company Limited by Guarantee located at 78 York Street, London W1H 1DP, United Kingdom with registration number 05742055.