A32-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 21,2002
Lancaster Farmland Trust Receives Top Rating
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
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In the wake of 9/11 related
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rate the operation of nonprofit
organizations.
Charity Navigator, a Web
based watchdog group recently
gave local Lancaster Farmland
Trust, a nonprofit organization
that helps Lancaster County
farmers preserve their land, a
four-star rating for organiza
tional efficiency on their Website.
This is the highest rating possi
ble.
“The board of directors at the
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tor to help us evaluate the effec
tiveness of the organization’s pro
grams,” said Phil Calhoun,
executive director of The Oxford
Foundation. “It gives us a great
deal of peace of mind to invest in
programs like Lancaster Farm
land Trust that use a business
model that makes them highly ef
fective.”
Charity Navigator, founded in
2001, is a free, Web-based service
accessed at www.charitynaviga
tor.org. The group uses publicly
available 990 forms (the form
nonprofit organizations and
foundations use to report to the
IRS) to analyze and evaluate the
charity’s overall financial health.
The four-star designation that
Lancaster Farmland Trust re
ceives means that the organiza
tion exceeds industr, standards
and outperforms most charities
in its cause. The site also com
pares organizations with other re
gional and national organizations
in related fields. The site evalu
ates 1,700 organizations, 33 per
cent of which receive a four-star
rating.
There are two basic criteria
that the group employs the
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short-term spending practices
and the long-term sustainability
of the organization. To determine
the short-term practices, Charity
Navigator looks at an organiza
tion’s fundraising efficiency,
fundraising expenses, program
expenses, and administrative ex-
penses to provide potential
donors with a picture of
how efficiently the organi
zation operates on a day-to
day basis. Lancaster Farm
land Trust has a fund
raising efficiency of $.Ol
spent to raise each dollar.
Fundraising and adminis
tration account for 5.5 per
cent of the Trust’s ex
penses, with the balance
being spent on programs.
Long-term sustainability
is evaluated by looking at
an organization’s average
annual growth of operating
revenue, average annual
growth or programs and
services, and working capi
tal ratio. Lancaster Farm
land Trust scored high
overall on long-term sus
tainability.
‘Our board members are
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C lassified, Section D ads 3
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C lassified, Section C, Farm
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Sect. A ads, 9 aThursday,
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Classified, Section C, Farm
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Sect A ads, 9 a.m. Thursday,
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very pleased with this rating,”
said Ted Bowers, Lancaster
Farmland Trust board chair.
“During the past year, the board
has taken a hard look at the day
to-day operations of the Trust.
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Lancaster Farmland Trust, in
its 14th year, has preserved 154
farms covering 9,771 acres.