On May 24, we announced our plan to release a single unified rating system in October 2022. This unification will bring together our legacy Charity Navigator 2.1 (Star) system with our Encompass Rating System, rating more than 200,000 nonprofits. This is the culmination of a two-year journey of research, consulting, experimenting, and iterating different approaches and lenses to rate nonprofits more thoroughly and accurately. We are proud that Encompass, the system that will power evaluations moving forward, is the most comprehensive and flexible rating framework available, providing objective metrics on nonprofit health and performance so that donors can find and give to the most impactful nonprofits.

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