By: JF
I’ve actually never heard of the GJ, but if the intellectual level and objectivity of this response reflects the publication, I’d probably categorize them right next to Us Weekly and the Enquirer.
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“Most people consuming these rankings will not take the time to critically analyse them. They’ll assume that someone else has already done that.” I think most people don’t read the Global Journal……
View ArticleBy: Dave Algoso
Thanks for all the supportive comments, and for sharing this post around. I agree with Matt (and others) that the Global Journal isn’t exactly on every news stand. I almost ignored their list...
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[...] by Find What Works, a small but well read international development blog. The post in question, “Lies, damned lies, and ranking lists,” reviewed a recently published “Top 100 Best NGOs” list by...
View ArticleBy: Brendan J Rigby (@bjrigby)
But, now people are reading it, taking notice and using it for fundraising purposes (as predicted): http://www.oxfam.org.au/blogs/2012/01/oxfam-number-three-in-top-100-best-ngos/
View ArticleBy: 10 reasons to dislike the Top 100 NGO list « newmoralsentiments
[...] Dave Algosa discovered, the categories innovation, impact and effectiveness were favoured above all others. On-trend then, [...]
View ArticleBy: Cynan
When I first saw this come out I was hugely optimistic that perhaps this exercise had a fresh lens and perspective that all the many charity-rating agencies had overlooked. But when the editor above...
View ArticleBy: mng
I’m going to take the moral low-ground here and guffaw at the following bit of Jean-Christophe’s reply: “Methodology, from the French méthodologie” Good bit of journalism there. LOL.
View ArticleBy: M Scott
I work for a very large NGO that didn’t make your list. You can try to figure out which. Rankings of NGOs according to objective criteria are welcome. There are many such rankings already. For NGOs...
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[...] different bits of this vaguely unknown bloc of work is a difficult thing to do. A more recent development blog furore surrounded this very issue as the excellent Dave Algoso took umbrage with an...
View ArticleBy: Cynan
M Scott: I work for a very large NGO that did very well on this list. Fundamentally I don’t like this list and our place on it because I think it risks being a misguided & underinformed source of...
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[...] Algoso takes on the Global Journal’s Top 100. And the Global Journal editor shows us how not to respond to criticism. And Dave pretty much wins [...]
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[...] Algoso takes on the Global Journal’s Top 100. And the Global Journal editor shows us how not to respond to criticism. And Dave pretty much wins the war. (BTW: congrats all you readers whose INGOs...
View ArticleBy: Bhamy V Shenoy
I wanted to share my views on the selection process by getting in touch with the editor of Global Journal. I was an editor of a magazine, Catalyst for NGO movement in India (www.afhd.org) and had...
View ArticleBy: Regarding the job I thought I had « Find What Works
[...] Lies, damned lies, and ranking lists: The Top 100 Best NGOs [...]
View ArticleBy: NGO rankings: a bad idea poorly implemented
[...] Global Journal has published an inaugural list of the “Top 100 Best NGOs.” David Algoso has a critique on the methodology (lack thereof) and the failure to recognize the immense sectoral...
View ArticleBy: What does it all add up to? Measurement at the agency level, part 1 «...
[...] already heard my thoughts on how any effort to rank NGOs will descend into absurdity. The major difficulty with such an endeavor stems from the remarkable range of organizations that [...]
View ArticleBy: la vidaid loca
[...] got it right, and we’re pretty self sufficient. And when certain magazines coming out with flimsy ratings exercises, well those too can be a source of undeserved and misplaced [...]
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