For Release January 2, 2009 Contact: Holly Frew
Phone: 770-323-5858
medshare named slam dunk charity by charity navigator
ATLANTA, Georgia—MedShare has been ranked number four on a top ten list of Slam-Dunk Charities by Charity Navigator, a nonprofit organization that evaluates the financial health of over 5,000 charities to help charitable givers make intelligent giving decisions.
The charities on the Slam-Dunk Charities list are recognized not only for being tops in terms of financial health, but also for respecting the rights of donors. Charity Navigator highlighted MedShare for outperforming majority peer organizations in terms of financial management and for having a donor privacy policy in place.
“This is a great honor for us at MedShare to be recognized among by such a well-respected organization like Charity Navigator, as it is important to us to be financially responsible to our donors,” said A.B. Short, CEO at MedShare.
For more information regarding Charity Navigator, visit http://www.charitynavigator.org/.
About MedShare International
MedShare International is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated bridging the gap between surplus and need through the collection and distribution surplus medical supplies and equipment for use by healthcare institutions in the U.S. and developing countries.Since MedShare’s inception in 1999, the organization has retrieved more than $60 million in surplus medical supplies and equipment from U.S. donors and shipped over 450 forty-foot medical aid containers to healthcare institutions in economically developing countries. For more information, please visit the organization’s website at: www.medshare.org.
