You would think that a charity with impressive-sounding programs such as Handicapped Children's Services of America and American Veteran's Network would be spending more than $50,000 on program services. Unfortunately,...
While not all charities that have family members running them receive poor grades from the American Institute of Philanthropy, many of them do. The Chronicle of Philanthropy last September published...
Larry Jones, founder of the well-known hunger charity Feed the Children, was recently mentioned in an ongoing court case in which the group's longstanding board of directors claim they were...
Feed the Children is practically a household name thanks to its celebrity endorsers and television infomercials featuring malnourished children in impoverished areas of the globe. The charity claims...
Not since the Great Depression of the 1930's has the economy wreaked such havoc on the lives of ordinary Americans. Some people who gave a year ago to charity are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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....
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...
