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TalkingPoints earns a four-star rating from Charity Navigator

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San Francisco, CA – TalkingPoints 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 TalkingPoints 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 TalkingPoints 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 TalkingPoints is able to accomplish in the years ahead.” 

“We are thrilled to receive the four-star rating from Charity Navigator, which confirms that our supporters can have full confidence in our organization. We hope this recognition will help us advance our mission to drive student success by using accessible technology to unlock the potential of family engagement in children’s education,” said Heejae Lim, TalkingPoints’ Founder & CEO. 

TalkingPoints has an ambitious goal to improve outcomes for 12 million students annually by 2026, build district capacity to remove barriers to student learning and improve school systems, and thereby significantly close the education gap through universal family engagement.

 

About TalkingPoints

TalkingPoints is an education technology nonprofit that drives student success by removing critical barriers to equitable family-school partnerships, such as language, time, mindsets, and capacity. Ten of the country’s twenty largest school districts trust TalkingPoints to create a district culture where all families, no matter their background, can engage with their schools. Our simple, intuitive family engagement platform offers the highest-quality human- and AI-powered two-way translated communication available — in 150 languages and counting. Named by Common Sense Education as “the best overall family communication platform for teachers and schools”, TalkingPoints leads to higher test scores and lower absenteeism, as shown by rigorous causal research that meets the ESSA Tier 2 standard of evidence. To learn more, view our TED Talk or visit talkingpts.org

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