Singapore charities score on governance

Singapore charities score on governance: "n its inaugural Charity Governance Report released today, the Charity Council revealed that the overall median governance evaluation score of about 1,500 charities in Singapore is 87 per cent.

This constitutes 81 per cent of the charity sector in Singapore which has supplied information about their governance on an online evaluation system.

The score is based on areas such as board independence, regular board meetings, reviews of vision and mission and communication to stakeholders, conflicts of interest declaration, human resource policies, staff appraisal/ development, reserves policies, board evaluation a"