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Welcome to the real world, as many of us teach our students, while encouraging them to take courses in accounting, financial management, quantitative analysis, program design and evaluation, and other practical things that virtuous organizations need. Organizations know the smaller the percentage, the higher the rating, so they game their figures.[...] a low number is not necessarily proof of the quality of output. Even more important, are NGOs really able to be substitutes for government and business, to actually play the role many of them claim as the monitors and supervisors of the issue space in which they operate? A famous example has to do with labor in the clothing supply chain: workers confront crowded, unhealthy, underpaid, dangerous conditions, facing even death from fire or building collapse or chemical spills. Because controversy over these conditions caused big problems for manufacturers, they …