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Avoiding Charity Scams During The Holiday Giving Season

   Nov 30, 2022

CharityWatch Executive Director, Laurie Styron, talks donating tips for Giving Tuesday and the 2022 holiday giving season with WENY (Harrisburg, PA) reporter, Brendan Scanland.

"This is peak time for scammers, some of them being professionals who do scamming as a full-time job. This means that all of us have to be on extra alert this time of year."

"We [CharityWatch] have a list of Top-Rated charities organized by cause."

"A charity could spend $1 of your $100 donation on its programs and be operating perfectly within the law. It's not enough to know if a charity is 'legitimate.'"