COMMUNITY WORKS INC
EIN 04-2762623 · Fund Raising Organizations That Cross Categories
What they do
COMMUNITY WORKS is A COOPERATIVE FUND RAISING EFFORT AMONG COMMUNITY-BASED and COMMUNITY-CONTROLLED ORGANIZATIONS. OUR GOAL is to DEVELOP A STABLE and GROWING SOURCE of SUPPORT for OUR MEMBERS PRIMARILY THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN WORKPLACE FUND RAISING.COMMUNITY WORKS is BOTH A MEANS to RAISE FUNDS and AN AGENT of CHANGE. OUR PRESENCE IN THE WORKPLACE EXPANDS TRADITIONAL DEFINITIONS of CHARITABLE ACTIVITY to INCLUDE ADVOCACY and COMMUNITY ORGANIZING; INCREASES EMPLOYEE AWARENESS of COMMUNITY RESOURCES; DEMONSTRATES ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES to ADDRESSING PRESSING ISSUES; FOCUSES ATTENTION ON ISSUES NOT PREVIOUSLY ADDRESSED; and FOSTERS THE EMPOWERMENT of DONORS AS THEY CHOOSE WHERE THEY WILL DIRECT THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.
Should I give to this charity?
Of every $100 spent, about $69.90 was reported for mission work. Use the spending picture below and ask what results that work produced.
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Basic facts we verified
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Financial picture
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How reported expenses were divided
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Mission work is the Form 990 category called program services. These are the organization’s reported accounting categories, not an independent measure of results.
About this charity
- Location
- PO BOX 590172, NEWTON CENTER, MA 02459
- County
- Middlesex
- In care of
- CRAIG NORBERG-BOHM