Kendall Taggart

Reporters from the Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting spent a year scrutinizing 5,800 charities nationwide that pay for-profit telemarketing companies to solicit donations on their behalf. As much as 90 cents for every dollar of those donations go directly to pay for the for-profit companies that are “dialing for dollars”:

Part One: Dirty Secrets of the Worst Charities

Part Two: A Failure of Regulation

Part Three: The Reynolds Family Empire