Bbb wise giving alliance evaluates charities, at no charge, using its 20 holistic bbb charity standards to help donors verify the trustworthiness of soliciting organizations.

Produces about 1,500 reports on nationally-soliciting charities based on the 20 bbb standards for charity accountability. Public inquiries help determine which charities are evaluated. Charities can also request to be evaluated. Produces a wise giving guide magazine three times per year, which includes a summary list of charity evaluations. Charities that meet all 20 standards are called bbb accredited charities. There is no charge for charity accreditation and the resulting reports are free to the public at give. Org. Accredited charities have the option of licensing a bbb charity seal for a sliding scale fee. Of the charities that provide requested information, 71% were found to meet all 20 bbb charity standards and 29% did not meet one or more of the standards. (continued on schedule o)the current name, bbb wise giving alliance (bbb wga), began to be used in 2001. However, under previous names, the legacy of bbb reporting on national charities dates back to the 1920's. In addition to its long history, one of the key distinctions between bbb wga and other charity monitoring organizations is that it is a standards-based charity evaluator. The 20 bbb standards for charity accountability address, among other things, charity governance, finances, results reporting, transparency and truthful appeals. These standards serve as the basis for rigorous evaluations completed by the bbb wga expert research staff. A detailed explanation of how each standard is applied appears on give. Org. On the give. Org website, a weekly "wise giving wednesday" blog addresses various charity accountability issues. During this third year of the blog's activity, it alerted readers to various accountability issues such as tips on donating to hurricane relief appeals, use of photos in fundraising appeals, passing giving habits to children and cyrptocurrency giving. The blog also includes a "building trust" video series which consists of interviews with the ceo's of major charitable organizations. Bbb wga began a collaborative effort with community health charities (chc) a federation representing more than 2,000 health charities in the workplace. Through this new relationship, chc partner charities are now asked to submit information for a bbb charity evaluation. As part of its expanded media outreach activities in 2017, bbb wga accumulated over 3 billion media impressions in 2017 which represented a 300% increase over the previous year's total. Media impressions represent the cumulative number of individuals that had the opportunity to see the applicable media stories or content. In march 2017, the federal trade commission held its first charity conference: give & take: consumers, contributions and charity. Bbb wga executive leadership participated in separate panel discussions that addressed various issues about safeguarding donors from fraud and deception. bbb launched its "advancing collaboration" project in 2017 which featured an article series created in partnership with stanford social innovation review. This series, in part, sought to encourage charities to seek out new partnerships to help reach larger audiences while sharing risk and helping achieve more than an organization can do alone. The project also introduced a collaboration pledge that a charity can display on its website. The american society of association executives (asae) foundation recognized the advancing collaboration project with an innovative grants award.