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As of the end of December, Kayole Mtaa Safi is a Vetted Organization according to Global Giving, the world's largest crowdfunding community.
Yahoo!, Yipee! and Whoopdy-do! ... What does that mean to us ordinary people? In a nutshell, it means Kayole Mtaa Safi isn't just a fly-by-night organization that is going to collect donations and then disappear - but we already knew that. Didn't we? In other words, GlobalGiving performed rigorous due diligence on Kayole Mtaa Safi as they do on every organization using their platform to ensure we are doing charitable work in a transparent and accountable manner, and meeting local requirements for registration. GG collected and review legal documents, financial records, program materials, and lists of senior staff and board members, in order to validate that we are running our projects as described. They also evaluate our capacity to 'do what we have described and describe what we have done.' They also looked into our relationship with previous funders. Finally, believe it or not, they ensure that we are compliant with anti-terror guidelines - I guess they are just being thorough. Last but not least they look at our compliance with international guidelines for philanthropy. As you may have read in an earlier post, we successfully raised approximately $5,000 from 40 donors as a step in our vetting process. GlobalGiving then look to ‘the crowd’ to provide feedback about organization and projects to further determine our suitability. Now that we're vetted and added to the GlobalGiving community, we're required to submit quarterly project reports, including activities, accomplishments and results of the project to-date. These reports are emailed to our donors and publicly available on our project page so you can see how your donation is being used and what progress has been made. So from here on, every two years, they conduct a thorough due diligence renewal on us and even personally pay us a visit. What a dedicated bunch. I think we're a good match.
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