The Lucky Foundation Earns a Four-Star Rating From Charity Navigator
The Lucky Foundation - Headquarters; Livingston, Texas 01/16/2023 – The Lucky Foundation is proud to announce that its strong financial health and ongoing accountability and transparency has earned a Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator. This rating designates The Lucky Foundation as an official “Give with Confidence” charity, indicating that our organization is using its donations effectively based on Charity Navigator’s criteria. Charity Navigator is America’s largest and most-utilized independent charity evaluator. Since 2001, the organization has been an unbiased and trusted source of information for more than 11 million donors annually.
Charity Navigator analyzes nonprofit performance based on four key indicators, referred to as beacons. Currently, nonprofits can earn scores for the Impact & Results, Accountability & Finance, Culture & Community, and Leadership & Adaptability beacons.
“We are delighted to provide The Lucky Foundation with third-party accreditation that validates their operational excellence,” said Michael Thatcher, President, and CEO of Charity Navigator. “The Four-Star Rating is the highest possible rating an organization can achieve. We are eager to see the good work that The Lucky Foundation is able to accomplish in the years ahead.”
“Our Four-Star Charity Navigator is further validation that our supporters can trust our commitment to good governance and financial health,” said Kristina Manuel, Founder, Board Chairperson. “The Lucky Foundation was initially founded to empower the youth of fallen United States Military and First Responders. We wanted to develop a program that would wrap our wings around all service branches: law enforcement; firefighters, fire service; military, federal agents, park rangers, wildlife officers, border patrol; search and rescue, EMT and medical personnel; dispatchers, tow truck drivers; as well as correctional officers. I personally can trace family roots back to every branch listed above, so this is a cause that I am quite passionate about. Today we are working to extend our campaigns toward the support of holidays, birthdays, ongoing remembrance, grievance support, and more. It is important that we honor our fallen heroes at a national level, a local level, and a personal level. Community involvement is essential in recognizing the sacrifice. However, it also allows families to pass down the message of commitment to the country, as well as lessons in honor, integrity, and sacrifice to younger generations.
Since 2021, The Lucky Foundation continues to evolve. The Lucky Foundation strives to be a leading organization in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek to create a culture where volunteers and constituents are empowered to share their voices and perspectives to create an environment of inclusion, growth, positivity, belonging and change. This culture is embraced by all parts of the Foundation.
As we continue to grow, The Lucky Foundation has forged partnerships with those sharing the commitment to empower the youth of our future. With our broad partnerships, we are committed to transparency. Through the blessing of these partnerships, we plan to expand our outreach and program offerings.
We are continuing to build out our educational and scholarship programs on various levels including but not limited to both university and vocational. We are reorganizing our due diligence process while expanding our team to become more seamless for our scholarship applicants. Our directors and their teams continue to meet via videoconference so that there is no interruption to our funding cycle this year. We also are changing the way we conduct site visits so that they can happen virtually and with the least amount of disruption for the scholarship applicants.
We are forecasting the Foundation’s future investment portfolio as a source of additional scholarship funds while continuing to creatively run lean on overhead operating expenses. We are evaluating how to move our strategic priorities forward while being responsive to ever-changing community needs. The Foundation’s Board of Directors and Advisors continue the discussion of how we can best fuel a thriving nonprofit sector working to advance equity with the funds contributed focusing forward. More details about plans for the upcoming year will be shared very soon.”
The Lucky Foundation’s rating and other information about charitable giving are available free of charge on charitynavigator.org.
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