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ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ (BFA), a non-profit with offices in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Atlanta, has received Charity Navigator's 4-star rating for the fifth consecutive year. Charity Navigator is the country's premiere charity evaluator and rates charities on sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency.

"Only 6 % of the charities we evaluate have received at least 5 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ outperforms most other charities in America," John P. Dugan, founder and chair of the board of Charity Navigators, wrote in a letter to Patrick Plonski, Executive Director of BFA.

"This 'exceptional' designation from Charity Navigator sets ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ apart from its peers and demonstrates to the public its trustworthiness," Dugan continued.

BFA had an overall rating of 97.01, with a financial rating of 95.78 and an accountability and transparency rating of 100. For more information .

"We are very happy once again with Charity Navigator's findings and ratings of BFA," Plonski said. "We are proud that BFA has been able to serve the students of ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ during the past year with more than 2.5 million books and other educational tools like computers and e-readers and we plan to expand our efforts and continue to increase shipments this year."

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ remains the largest shipper of donated text and library books to the ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n continent, shipping over 50 million books to 55 different countries since 1988. Over the past 12 months BFA has shipped more than 2.4 million books, 665 computers and 200 e-readers containing 1.6 million digital books, as well as five new law and human rights libraries to 21 ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½n countries. More than $2.3 million was raised last year to ship the books to the students of ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½.