Victoria Hospice Society and the B.C. Cancer Foundation are on a list of top performers among successful charities in Canada.
A report released this week by charity watchdog Charity Intelligence Canada placed the two organizations on its Top Picks list for 2012, not only for their effective and efficient use of donor money, but their outcomes for the people they serve.
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The ratings are based on performance in such areas as transparency, ratio of funding reserves to program costs, fundraising costs and salary information. Charity Intelligence is an organization that analyzes the financial picture of charities across Canada to help donors determine where their donations would be best used.
For a full list of Top Picks, visit charityintelligence.ca.
Greater Victorians lead online donor list
Online charity donation facilitator CanadaHelps.org has rated communities across the country for their level of giving through its website.
On that list, Greater Victoria ranked first for most donations per capita, with 7.9 donations per 100 people, well ahead of Vancouver, which came in second at 2.1 donations per 100 residents.
Provincially, B.C. ranked second for total donations with 49,707 and third in total raised with $6.2 million.
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