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Protest Oregon's Proposed New Fundraising Law

Harvard Business Review

Many reported overhead ratios distort and obscure the truth. Reporting a high rate of overhead probably signals a kind of innocence: It means the charity isn't using accounting shenanigans. Often we hear that a telemarketing firm takes 90% of what it raises. But it's an amateur analysis that ignores the telemarketer's costs.