Regardless of how much you’re giving, it’s important to be informed bout the charity to ensure that it is having an impact. While we want to give, it’s always a risk that a charity might not be nearly as charitable as we hoped, or it claimed. To know your time and money is truly going to a good cause, it’s important for the charity to have been investigated, and then monitored, to ensure what they say is what they do. Philanthropy consultants do just this; analyze and monitor charities before providing information about the charity’s operations.

“With 85,000 registered charities in Canada all asking for money, a philanthropic advisor’s goal is to give donors information that would result in good giving decisions.”

Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/globe-wealth/article-are-your-charity-dollars-going-to-the-right-people-in-the-right-place/