Boys Town Receives Wise Giving Accreditation from BBB

The Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance has named Boys Town, a nonprofit organization working to save children and heal families locally and across the country, as a 2009 BBB Wise Giving Alliance Accredited Charity.

Boys Town voluntarily underwent a rigorous evaluation process of their governance, effectiveness, finances and solicitations, and informational materials. Boys Town passed the evaluation and met all of the Alliance’s Standards for Charity Accountability. These standards go beyond what government regulators require.

“National charities that display the BBB Wise Giving Alliance seal can do so with pride,” said Art Taylor, President and CEO of the Alliance. “Not only are they attesting to their organization’s adherence to sound standards, they are helping to increase donor confidence and strengthen public trust in giving.”

With more than 85 percent of the organization’s expenses going directly to its life-changing youth care and health care programs across the United States, Boys Town is committed to its children and donors through sound fiscal management and quality programs.

Boys Town Louisiana has been saving children and healing families in Louisiana for nearly 20 years. Annually, nearly 600 children and more than 100 families receive help from Boys Town Louisiana, primarily through Treatment Family Services and Intervention and Assessment Services.

Boys Town is a beacon of hope for American’s children and families and is now embarking on a new mission to affect change in a puzzling system of youth care by building an Integrated Continuum of Child and Family Services to provide the right services at the right time based on a child’s or family’s needs. The nonprofit, nonsectarian organization provides children and families with services in their own homes, or, when necessary, family-like out-of-home services to children with special treatment needs. Boys Town works with communities and schools in order to meet the growing and more diverse needs of today’s children and families.