There is no charge to charities for the accountability assessment.

The first step in accreditation is disclosing financial, governance, results reporting, and fundraising information to the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. This is accomplished by completing a password protected online questionnaire form.

Click here to enroll your charity

While not all charities that disclose are able to meet all 20 of the BBB Charity Standards, BBB WGA will work with charities to help address issues raised in the evaluation. The charity will be informed about what actions it can take to amend findings brought to its attention.

Click here to review the 20 BBB Charity Standards

A draft report detailing the evaluation conclusions is shared with the charity prior to posting on Give.org. This often provides an opportunity for the charity to clarify issues and amend findings before the report is done.

Overall, the process seeks to help charities strengthen practices while also developing a report to help donors make informed giving decisions.

The following infographic provides a summary of how the process works:

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Once a charity report has been published, if your organization is found to not meet one or more Standards, keep in mind that our findings are not set in stone. If something changes that you believe would demonstrate that a Standard has been met and you’d like to update your charity’s report, please reach out to the analyst who worked with you on your report or send a message to us at info@give.org.