How charities invest donations may be as important as how they spend them. Nonprofit organizations, along with anyone else that holds investments, have in the past year been swept up...
"I'm very proud of what we do, and we certainly do look after everybody. F or no F, the point is we do the right thing by veterans." -Richard H....
100% of your donation goes toward programs -- 0% goes toward overhead. Many AIP members have seen the above language in solicitations from Smile Train, a charity that treats children...
High salaries should not signal a red light to not give just as low salaries should not signal a green light to give. Charity salary levels ought to be based...
Ubiquitous on charity websites is a ribbon-style seal that in large type reads "BEST IN AMERICA," features five stars across the top edge, and indicates that the charity awarded the...
In April of 2008 a Special Investigative Committee of the Joint Boards of the Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC) issued an internal report on allegations that members of SHC's board...
The Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation, an AIP F rated veterans charity, removed Henry Cook, National Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH), and...
What happens when you donate one dollar to an F rated charity that gives it to another F rated charity? In the case of The Veterans Fund and Help Hospitalized...
On April 8, the American Red Cross appointed its seventh CEO in seven years, according to the Washington Post. Gail J. McGovern, formerly a Harvard Business School professor and executive...
The doubling of oil and food costs, higher unemployment rate, housing and mortgage market collapse, and government cutbacks have caused millions of Americans to struggle to stay financially afloat. Charities...
The IRS may start revoking the charitable status of poorly performing charities. Steven T. Miller, commissioner of the IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division said at a conference last...
It is ironic that veterans charities, having one of the most popular causes, are also some of the least efficient with America's donated dollars. It is a national disgrace that...
