Guide to Car Donations for Charities
Thinking about donating your car? Our Guide to Car Donations covers six key things to know, FAQs, and a list of BBB Accredited Charities that accept vehicle donations.
Wise Giving Wednesday: Handling Complaints About Charities
Most of the activity on the
Give.org website comes from individuals seeking to verify a charity’s trustworthiness before they make a donation.
This is accomplished by reviewing our
reports to see if the subject nationally soliciting charity meets the 20 holistic
BBB Standards for Charity Accountability
. In turn, 57 of the 113
Better Business Bureaus report on regionally soliciting charities.
While such inquiries comprise the vast majority of our charity activity, from time to time, charities can be the subject
of public complaint. For national charities, the most common type of complaint consists of individuals seeking to
be removed from the mailing list of a charity. At the regional level, complaints can range from concerns
with a purchase at a charity thrift store to concerns raised about a pet adopted from an animal shelter. Whatever
the cause, our procedure is to forward the complaint to the subject charity and ask that they respond to the individual
with a copy to either BBB WGA (or the applicable BBB).
For complaints about national charities, the following form can be completed online:
https://www.give.org/ask-us-about-a-charity/. Complaints about regionally soliciting charities can be initiated
by completing the following form for local complaints:
https://www.bbb.org/consumer-complaints/file-a-complaint/get-started
In addition, Standard 20 of the BBB Charity Standards calls for charities to promptly respond to and act on complaints
brought to their attention by the BBB WGA and/or Better Business Bureaus.
As part of our Building Trust Video Series, we are pleased to provide the following video that features Kelly Browning,
Chief Executive Officer of
American Institute for Cancer Research (a
BBB Accredited Charity) which funds research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activity and weight management
to cancer risk as well as to interpret scientific data and to educate people about reducing their cancer risk.
We are always working with charities to publish or update reports for donors. Visit
Give.org or local BBBs to check out any charity before giving. Our recently evaluated charities include:
Finally, remember to let us know by going to
https://www.give.org/ask-us-about-a-charity1/ if you are interested in seeing a report on a charity not
on the list and we will do our best to produce one.
H. Art Taylor, President & CEO
BBB Wise Giving Alliance
