MAP News: 2008 - MAP Maintains High Accountability Rating For Fifth Year in a Row
Friday, October 17, 2008
By: Jack Morse

For the fifth year in a row, MAP International has earned Charity Navigator's coveted 4-star rating for its ability to effectively and responsibly manage and grow its financial resources.

For the fifth year in a row, MAP International has earned Charity Navigator’s coveted 4-star rating for its ability to effectively and responsibly manage and grow its financial resources. Charity Navigator, a respected independent evaluator of charities hailed by Forbes, Business Week and Kiplinger’s Financial Magazine, evaluates the nation’s leading charities using a unique, data-driven analysis. Only three percent of the nonprofit organizations Charity Navigator has rated have received five or more consecutive ratings of 4 out of 4 stars.

“MAP International consistently executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way and outperforms most other charities in America,” wrote Ken Berger, President and CEO of Charity Navigator in a letter to MAP International. “This ‘exceptional’ designation from Charity Navigator differentiates MAP International from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust.”

The ratings are based on the most recent financial information available from fiscal year 2008. The fiscal year saw growths not only in MAP’s total medicines distributed to developing countries but also an increase in the number of Travel Packs provided for medical teams on short-term missions overseas. During fiscal year 2008, MAP distributed more than $458 million nearly half a billion dollars in medicines and emergency medical supplies for underprivileged people in 117 countries across the globe. MAP also increased its shipment of Travel Packs to more than 3,000. Each portable pack contains approximately $14,000 in essential medicines and supplies designed for doctors traveling to hard-to-reach areas.

Michael Nyenhuis, MAP International’s president and CEO, said such growth is a reflection of MAP’s commitment to its supporters.

“MAP immensely values its donors and partners and is always mindful that we are to be good stewards of their generous contributions,” he said. “Charity Navigator’s 4-star rating highlights the effective way in which we use the resources with which we’ve been entrusted.”

MAP has scored highly with other charity watchdogs, as well. MAP meets the exacting accountability standards of the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance and has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as having a 99 percent efficiency rating for fundraising and charitable commitment. MinistryWatch.com has also given MAP an efficiency rating of five out of five stars.

Read Charity Navigator’s assessment of MAP