We advance a transparent and accountable charitable sector to promote society’s trust in charities.
Charity Monitoring Worldwide (CMW) is an international association of charity monitoring organizations. Our members are independent organizations that assess and monitor charities in their respective countries. We are all committed to empowering donors, volunteers, and communities to make a difference efficiently and effectively. Our members are spread across twenty countries in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa.
Looking for trustworthy charities?
Check out our members’ websites to find the charities that have gone through a rigorous assessment and comply with international standards.
Charity monitoring organizations help donors make informed decisions through thorough charity assessments.
These independent entities are dedicated to ensuring the trustworthiness of charities by meticulously evaluating their fundraising, transparency, and accountability.
Each member organization analyzes how charities function, manage their finances, and achieve their missions in their respective countries. Through detailed reviews and reports, they provide donors with crucial information to ensure their contributions benefit genuine causes and have a real impact.
This oversight builds public trust, encourages ethical practices in the charitable sector, and promotes wise and informed giving.
CMW establishes comprehensive standards based on transparency, accountability, and ethical fundraising. Our members, who are standards-based charity evaluators, adapt these international standards to fit the non-profit sector in their countries, taking into account local circumstances and legal requirements.
We believe in fostering accountability for charitable organizations to maximize their positive impact. Through rigorous monitoring and transparent reporting, we hold charities to the highest standards ensuring that donations create meaningful change.
We provide donors with detailed information about monitored charities so they can make informed and effective donations, which will create a meaningful change and will contribute to a better world
Charities under the supervision of a CMW member are assessed within standards given in accordance with the respective national law and culture.
Charities who are monitored against the standards of a CMW member secure higher effectiveness and donor ‘s trust.
CMW’s extensive network of charity monitoring organizations share with one another know-how and experience.
Our mission is to advance transparency and accountability in the charitable sector, promoting trust in charities within society. We strive to foster donor confidence in charities that make a positive impact.
We are dedicated to ensuring satisfactory organization and performance of fundraising for charitable purposes, applying the highest standards of governance, and administering collected funds adequately.
The CMW Principles cover a range of crucial topics aimed at promoting transparency and reliability within charities. By exercising these principles, we ensure that trustworthiness is determined in a fair and credible manner within the charitable sector.
The principles also include guidance to ensure that the charity assessment is carried out consistently across all members.
In the spirit of openness, our transparency section mirrors the core values that guide our governance. It is a guarantee of our commitment to ethical management, transparency and accountability. As we require charitable organizations to publish their organizational information, annual accounts and reports, we apply the same standards to our network.
Each year, we organize an annual conference to facilitate discussions among our global membership on the latest trends in the nonprofit sector.