Transparency price

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The Transparency Prize is an award that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Germany has been awarding since 2005 to German donation organizations that provide their donors with exemplary information about goals, activities, their internal structures and the use of their funds. The prize is advertised publicly and is endowed with EUR 30,000. The basis for the award is the analysis of the publicly available reports of the participating organizations. The information is evaluated using a catalog of criteria that PwC developed together with the Georg-August University of Göttingen . With the award, PwC wants to contribute to the "improvement of the information policy" of non-profit organizations. The first three places will be awarded prizes between 5 and 15 thousand euros. The Transparency Prize has been awarded every two years since 2010.

In contrast to the transparency price, the transparency check is neither a competition nor an audit, but a self-test for organizations. It is based on a set of questions, the answers of which provide important information for the organizations' interest groups. The transparency check primarily helps smaller non-profit organizations. The transparency check is more than a self-test - the catalog of questions also represents the structure for reporting. Individual answers to the questions create the rough version of the report. Organizations of all sizes receive concrete support with regard to the required information and a proposal to structure it. The transparency check is freely accessible and is open to all interested organizations for free and anonymous self-assessment and use.

Award winners

Prize winners were:

year	1st place / price	2nd place / price	3rd place / price	4th Place	Special price for smaller organizations	Finalists	Out of competition
2005	Doctors Without Borders	German World Hunger Aid	Episcopal Action ADVENIAT	World Vision Germany		German leprosy and tuberculosis aid Kindernothilfe Renovabis terre des hommes Germany
2006	Doctors Without Borders	German World Hunger Aid	Kindernothilfe	German Caritas Association		Bread for the World / Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe CARE International Germany Christoffel-Blindenmission UNO-Refugee Aid Plan International Germany terre des hommes Germany
2007	Kindernothilfe	Doctors Without Borders	CARE International Germany	German World Hunger Aid	Andheri Help Bonn	Bread for the World German Children's Cancer Foundation German Caritas Association Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe Plan International Germany Renovabis
2008	CARE Germany-Luxembourg	Doctors Without Borders	German World Hunger Aid	World Vision Germany	German Multiple Sclerosis Society Landesverband Hessen	Bread for the World UNICEF Germany Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe Plan International Germany Renovabis	Kindernothilfe
2009	German World Hunger Aid	World Vision Germany	Bread for the world , people for people	German Stroke Foundation	Sign of Hope	Doctors Without Borders Christoffel Blind Mission UNICEF Germany Plan International Germany Renovabis	Kindernothilfe CARE Germany-Luxembourg
2010	UNICEF Germany	German Stroke Foundation and World Vision Germany	Plan International Germany	not awarded due to two second prizes	Sign of Hope and Andheri-Hilfe Bonn	Doctors Without Borders Bread for the World Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe Kindernothilfe Renovabis Menschen für Menschen	CARE Germany-Luxembourg German World Hunger Aid
2012	Plan International Germany	CARE Germany-Luxembourg and UNICEF Germany	Episcopal aid organization Misereor	not awarded due to two second prizes	Children for a better world	Doctors Without Borders Kindernothilfe World Vision Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Transparency check
2. ↑ Transparency check ( memento of the original from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Transparency Prize 2010
4. ↑ Transparency Prize 2012