The AIP Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report offers a variety of articles researched and written by our staff. Below are samples of the typical charity news stories found in every issue. Some articles focus on a particular charity while other articles focus on nonprofit topics such as solicitations and charity governance.

Charity Topics

Accountability

• Fundraisers Ordered to Pay $18.8 Million and Banned from Soliciting Forever

• Nobel Prize Nominee's Charity Wins No Award for Accountability

• Charity Network Inflates Efficiency and Reduces Accountability

• (Mis)Understanding Special Events

• Veterans Charities Protest Their F's

• Inefficient, Tax-Delinquent, and Even Fake Charities Pass CFC Screens

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

• No Defense for Bad Accounting

• Group Takes Steps to Improve Its Own Health

• Beware of Inflated Charity Efficiency Claims!

• AIP'S Method Better Judges Charity Efficiency: Why Oxfam Compares Better and UNICEF Worse

• Separation of Church and State Should Not Separate Donors from Information

Causes

• Our Veterans Deserve Better from America's Charities

• Children's Wish Granting

• American Indian Charities

Governance

• The Most Outrageous Charity in America: Larry Jones' Feed the Children

• Shriners Threatens to Close Hospitals

• Are Charity Boards Asleep at the Wheel?

• Know Your Red Crosses

• Leaked Report Alleges Wrongdoing within Shriners Hospitals for Children

• Never Again! Red Cross Needs Policy of Cooperation in Major Disasters

• Salvation Army Rates High on Finances but Low on Governance

Congressional Testimony

• AIP President Daniel Borochoff's Testimony Before the House Oversight Committee Regarding Veterans Charities (With AIP Ratings)

• AIP President Daniel Borochoff's Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight Regarding the Charities' Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

• AIP's Congressional Testimony on the Charities' Response to the 9/11 Terrorist Attack.

In-kind Donations

• Charity Network Inflates Efficiency and Reduces Accountability

• Charity Questions Value of Donated Goods

• Whoops! Gifts in Kind International Distributes $14.2 Million of Donated Goods to the Wrong Place

• AIP'S Method Better Judges Charity Efficiency: Why Oxfam Compares Better and UNICEF Worse

• Appetite Stimulants for the Starving

Reforming Charities

• Supreme Court Rules That Fundraisers Who Don't Lie Can Pocket 85% of Donations

• IRS Pulls Charity's Tax-Exempt Status

• Now Is The Time to Reform Veterans Charities

• 10 Essential Reforms to Regaining Trust in the Nonprofit Sector

• Undercover Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is to Set Up Phony Charity
  

Salaries

• All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F's

• Debunking Charity Salary Myths

• Top 25 Charity Compensation Packages

Solicitations

• Solicitation Train

• Charitable Giving Via Your Cellphone: Is the Convenience Worth It?

• Catchy Jingle Not a Green Light to Donate

• Weak Excuses for High Fundraising Costs

• F Rated Charities Awarded Best in America Seal

• Street Solicitations Promote Uninformed Giving

• A Wink and A Smile Train

• Soldiers Angels Lose Their Halos

• Bungled Charity Raffles Becomes Gateway to Fraud Allegations

• Matchless Matching Campaign

• Charity with Large Assets Pleads Poverty

• Buried in Solicitations

• Zero Fundraising Costs May Signify Zero Accountability

• Holiday Mission Ads May Mislead Public

• The Truth About Prospect Fundraising

Tips

• Tips for Giving Wisely

• Easing The Pain of America's Economic Crisis

• Seven Tips for Reducing Unwanted Mail and Phone Appeals

• What You Need to Know to Donate Safely Online

• Tips for Donating Your Old Cell Phone

• New Charitable Reforms and Giving Incentives

• Car Donations: Taking Taxpayers for a Ride

• Tips for Donating a Car to Charity

• Don't Be Misled by Deceptive Business/Charity Marketing

• Eight Rungs of the Giving Ladder

• Sorting Out Nonprofit Pairs

Veterans Charities

• Millions in Future Donations to Vets Charity Will Pay Debt Owed to Vendors

• Veterans Charities Protest Their F's

• Our Veterans Deserve Better from America's Charities

• Soldiers Angels Lose Their Halos

• AIP President Daniel Borochoff's Testimony Before the House Oversight Committee Regarding Veterans Charities (With AIP Ratings)

Charity

Air Force Aid Society

• Our Veterans Deserve Better From America's Charities

American Breast Cancer Foundation

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

American Cancer Society

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

American Health Assistance Foundation

• Group Takes Steps to Improve Its Own Health

American Veterans Coalition

• All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F's

Amvets National Headquarters

• Veterans Charities Protest Their F's

Army Emergency Relief

• Our Veterans Deserve Better From America's Charities

Avon Foundation/Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

• Avon Raises Awareness for Its Cosmetics and For Breast Cancer

Asian Relief/World Villages for Children

• Charity with Large Assets Pleads Poverty

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Cancer Fund of America

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

• All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F's

Central Asia Institute

• Nobel Prize Nominee's Charity Wins No Award for Accountability

Children's Wish Foundation International

• All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F's

Coalition Against Breast Cancer

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Don Stewart Association

• Charity Network Inflates Efficiency and Reduces Accountability

Defenders of Wildlife

• No Defense for Bad Accounting

Disabled Veterans National Foundation

• Millions in Future Donations to Vets Charity Will Pay Debt Owed to Vendors

Feed My People's Children's Charities

• Charity Network Inflates Efficiency and Reduces Accountability

Feed the Children

• Feed the Children

• Are Charity Boards Asleep at the Wheel?

• All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F's

Fisher House Foundation

• Our Veterans Deserve Better From America's Charities

Gateway to a Cure

• Bungled Charity Raffles Become Gateway to Fraud Allegations

Gifts-In-Kind-International

• Whoops! Gifts in Kind International Distributes $14.2 Million of Donated Goods to the Wrong Place

Help Hospitalized Veterans

• Two Layers of F's

The Hope School Foundation

• AIP Schools Charity Foundation

Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

• Our Veterans Deserve Better From America's Charities

Jimmy Fund

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Kars4Kids

• Catchy Jingle Not a Green Light to Donate

Lance Armstrong Foundation

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation

• Executive Director Fired

• Charity Whistle-Blower Booted From Board

• Veterans Charities Protest Their F's

National Association of Chiefs of Police

• All-in-the-Family Charities Receive F's

National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

National Cancer Coalition

• Cancer Charities Need Dose of Organizational Chemotherapy

Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society

• Our Veterans Deserve Better From America's Charities

Oorah

• Catchy Jingle Not a Green Light to Donate

Oxfam-America

• AIP'S Method Better Judges Charity Efficiency: Why Oxfam Compares Better and UNICEF Worse

Paralyzed Veterans of America

• Veterans Charities Protest Their F's

Planet Aid

• Beware of Inflated Charity Efficiency Claims!

Red Cross

• Charitable Giving Via Your Cellphone: Is the Convenience Worth It?

• Red Cross Uses Donations to Pay Fines
  

• AIP President Daniel Borochoff's Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight Regarding the Charities' Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
  

• Know Your Red Crosses

• Never Again! Red Cross Needs Policy of Cooperation in Major Disasters

Salvation Army

• Salvation Army Rates High on Finances but Low on Governance

Shiloh International Ministries

• Weak Excuses for High Fundraising Costs

Shriners Hospitals for Children

• Large Asset Charity Threatens to Close Hospitals

• Leaked Report Alleges Wrongdoing within Shriners Hospitals for Children

Smile Train

• Solicitation Train

• A Wink and a Smile Train

Soldiers Angels

• Soldiers Angels Lose Their Halos

UNICEF

• AIP'S Method Better Judges Charity Efficiency: Why Oxfam Compares Better and UNICEF Worse

Union of Concerned Scientists

• Matchless Matching Campaign

Vietnow

• Supreme Court Rules That Fundraisers Who Don't Lie Can Pocket 85% of Donations

Wishing Well Foundation/Children's Wish Foundation

• Children's Wish Granting