Give.org is the web site for the BBB Wise Giving Alliance.
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance was formed in 2001 with the merger of the National Charities
Information Bureau and the Council of Better Business Bureaus Foundation and its Philanthropic
Advisory Service. The BBB Wise Giving Alliance is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
affiliated with the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance collects and distributes information on hundreds of nonprofit
organizations that solicit nationally or have national or international program services. It
routinely asks such organizations for information about their programs,
governance, fund raising practices, and finances when the charities have been
the subject of inquiries.
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance never recommends one charity over another, and selects charities
for evaluation based on the volume of donor inquiries about individual organizations. These
policies allow the Alliance to serve donors' information needs and also help donors to make
their own decisions regarding charitable giving.
All local Better Business Bureaus in the United States disseminate Alliance educational
materials. Local BBB's also report on organizations whose fund raising efforts are local in scope.
Public Inquiries as a Gauge for Action
The volume of public inquiries helps identify which national charities will be the
subject of a BBB Wise Giving Alliance Report. If you have a question about a specific national charity,
check our Reports page, or contact us for a
free copy of our written report on the organization. Even if we do not have
information on the organization, the request will help alert us to national
charities that should be the subject of a future review.
More information
BBB Wise Giving Alliance 2002 Annual Report
BBB Wise Giving Alliance Board of Directors
2002 IRS Form 990 (Please note that this file is in a PDF format which requires your system to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. Because of its large size (23 pages) it may take a while to open. If you need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program please click here.)
The staff of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance
Producing Charity Reports
