describes March of Dimes as a bureaucracy that has taken on a life of its own through a classic example of a process called goal displacement. Faced with redundancy after Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine, it adopted a new mission, "fighting birth defects", which was recently changed to a vaguer goal of "breakthrough for babies", rather than disbanding. Charity Navigator, an organization that attempts to quantify the effectiveness of charities, has given the organization a rating of two stars (out of four). This is a merged score that attributes both a Financial as well as Accountability & Transparency rating to a non-profit. As of Fiscal Year 2015, Charity Navigator gives a 60.18 out of 100 score for Financial and a 97.00 out of 100 for Accountability & Transparency. This gives the March of Dimes a merged score of 71.76, leading to their two star status. Another criticism has been that President Jennifer Howse's compensation is high. In 2011, the March of Dimes' tax filings reported it as $545,982, and the organization's filings from 2014 reported her salary as $503,692, about 25% higher than the median CEO salary for similarly sized charities. References External links Official website "At the President's Birthday Ball" (1942) by the Glenn Miller Orchestra (YouTube) "Fund Raising for Roosevelt", unissued British Pathé newsreel footage, without sound, of the 1944 March of Dimes and the President's Birthday Ball; incorrectly identified as political campaign fundraising (YouTube) America Salutes the President's Birthday (March of Dimes fund appeals 1943–45) at the RadioGOLDINdex FDR's Birthday at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Polio Organizations established in 1938 Medical and health organizations based in New York (state) Non-profit organizations based in New York (state) Health charities in the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt Recipients of the Four Freedoms Award Preterm birth