I was sitting at home minding my own business one day and I got a call from someone ringing my phone. Turned out it was some woman talking. I could tell she just had a lot to say because everytime I tried to get a word in edgewise she would just start talking about how great her job was and how she thought that she had the best job in the world. And of course, I wanted to be polite to her so I let her finish telling me how proud she was that she got to help little sick kids all day by raising money for all these charities. SO I asked her how much of my donation would go to the little sick kids and she told me that they dont keep anymore then any other telemarketer, take for instance, she said, Outreach Calling Inc and their owner, Damian Muziani, he keeps 90% of the money he collects and that I should feel lucky that out of the goodness of her cold dark heart they only kept 85% and that they really hope people dont ask that question because then she has to admit they are taking all the money. Needless to say that by the time I hung up the phone, her cocky ego filled head had shrunk to the size of Damian Muziani's left nut. And for those who dont know, he owns Outreach Calling Inc. She promised that she would talk to her boss, Brian Maiorana of Good Charity Inc and demand he give more of the money to charity because she did not like being called out for being a left nut. Wing nut was ok though. As long as I did not call her out for lying to donors for her little scam she would be able to go home and lay her mini nut head down on her pillow and cry herself to sleep, feeling bad for all the people in need that could have used those donations she was asking me for.

So the moral of this story is, number 1, dont act like some dudes left nut and number to read these articles below from the BBB and Charity Watch before you let your left night convince you that you have a good job raising money for charity.

Guidestar has them listed http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-4293728/good-charity.aspx



The BBB put out a warning about them http://www.bbb.org/blog/2013/01/bbb-alerts-do ... ity-fundraiser/

What happens when members of a fundraising firm start charities? Today?s Better Business Bureau press release questions the relationship between a Michigan charity and the fundraising firm it uses to raise money.

Good Charity Inc. is based in Michigan but is licensed to do business in 24 states. Good Charity?s founder, Brian J. Maiorana, formerly worked for Insight Teleservices, also of Michigan, a company that makes money soliciting donations for charities. That firm has an F rating with the BBB.

A contract between Good Charity and Insight calls for Insight to retain 85 percent of the funds it raises for the charity. In 2011, Good Charity reported that it received just $180,000 from the $1.4 million Insight raised on its behalf that year. The charity made grants of $75,000, or about five cents for each dollar in donations.

Good Charity is an umbrella organization for 10 related organizations with names suggestive of the kinds of causes or people they assist. The names include:

Terminally Ill Children?s Fund
United States Paralyzed Veterans Fund
Children?s Leukemia of America Fund
National Breast Cancer Awareness Fund
Disabled Veteran Wheelchair Games
Michigan Disabled and Paralyzed Veterans Fund
Disaster Relief and Aid Fund
Disabled and Paralyzed Veterans Fund
America?s Missing Children Fund
The Autistic Society Fund
The BBB has the following tips for donors:

If you are solicited by a telemarketer, ask the names of both the fundraiser making the call and the charity he or she is representing.  Ask how much of your contribution goes to the charity and how much is retained by the fundraiser.
If you are solicited by mail, understand that a portion of your contribution may go to a for-profit company hired to run the campaign.  Call the fundraiser or charity and ask how much of your money the charity will receive.
Contact the charity to find out how it uses donations from the public.  Will it provide direct aid to families, buy medical supplies or be used for education or research?
Check the charity?s BBB Charity Review at www.bbb.org.

CharityWatch.org put out another warning about them but it reminds be off another one called Outreach Calling Inc and Damian Muziani that pocketed 90% of the money they raised http://www.charitywatch.org/articles/good_charity_cant_judge_by_name.html


Receiving approval from the IRS to be tax exempt and to collect tax-deductible contributions does not guarantee that a group is a good charity?even if Good Charity, Inc. is its official name. When the IRS makes a decision on a group's application for charitable status, it is approved 99.6% of the time. This leads to some pretty bad groups becoming charities.

A relatively new Michigan-based group named Good Charity, Inc. claims it is "making a difference in people's lives by providing funding to some of America's leading causes," according to its website. Formed in December 2010, Good Charity has been operating for less than the three-year period CharityWatch requires before a rating is conducted. Based on preliminary research, however, there is ample reason for concern regarding the creation of Good Charity and its fundraising and program service activities. This concern warrants attention now so that potential donors can be made aware that Good Charity's initial actions and activities have been contradictory, misleading, suspicious, and seemingly far from "good" in nature.

Note: Other than fulfilling our request for a copy of its application to the IRS for charity status, which it is required to do under IRS public disclosure rules, Good Charity did not respond to any of CharityWatch's questions.

A primary area of concern regarding Good Charity is its relationship with professional telemarketing fundraiser Insight Teleservices, Inc. (Insight), which is also based in the Detroit area. Good Charity was founded by Brian Maiorana, a former or possibly current new business development director at Insight. Mr. Maiorana serves as president of Good Charity and also is one of its three board members or officers listed in its 2011 tax form, which is the most recent form available. Three is the minimum number of board members required to form a nonprofit in Michigan, but CharityWatch believes that a nonprofit organization ought to have at least five members on its governing board. Another Insight employee, Sean Smith, was the named vice president at the time of Good Charity's formation, thereby resulting in two of the three listed board members or officers being past or present Insight employees. Mr. Smith also was listed as one of four phone room managers for Insight in a Good Charity professional solicitor registration statement filed in February 2012 with the Attorney General's office in Massachusetts. Further, a note to Good Charity's 2011 audited financial statements discloses that Good Charity uses property and equipment "owned by one of the commercial fundraisers that it has a contract with." The audit note is likely referring to Insight since it is the only fundraising company that Good Charity has reported hiring, according to its tax form. Potential donors should be aware of these key personnel connections between Good Charity and Insight, especially in light of its very small number of board members and officers, a majority of whom are current or former employees of Insight.

Another alarming aspect of Good Charity's relationship with Insight dates back to Good Charity's January 31, 2011 application for charity (also known as "501(c)(3)") tax exemption status. In its tax exemption application, Good Charity indicated that it would not have any contracts with any organizations to raise funds, and stated, "We do not intend to use the services of any professional fundraisers." Good Charity did not identify any independent contractors expected to receive more than $50,000 per year, and no relationships between Good Charity's officers and expected highest compensated independent contractors were indicated to exist. Additionally, Good Charity described in two different parts of its tax exemption application that its fundraising would be conducted by members of the organization and unpaid volunteers. About three months later, however, Insight and Good Charity entered into a three year fundraising agreement, and as disclosed in Good Charity's 2011 tax filing, Insight raised 100% of the contributions Good Charity received in 2011 and was paid over $1.2 million by Good Charity for its services. Whether intentional or not, clearly Good Charity's tax exemption application concerning its expected fundraising activities and relationship with Insight was erroneous and misleading.



The table above reflects the results of some of Insight's recent professional fundraising solicitation campaigns. As the last column of the table indicates, the charities for which Insight solicited retained only 10-15% of the gross receipts raised by Insight, thereby allowing Insight to retain 85-90%. Insight was paid over $2 million by the above charities for its fundraising services, with over $1 million coming from Good Charity, based on this report.

Good Charity also provided erroneous and misleading information in the budget portion of its January 2011 tax exemption application. Good Charity projected that its revenues would be $25,000, $30,000, and $40,000 in 2011, 2012, and 2013, respectively, totaling $95,000 in contributions received for the three-year period. This revenue projection has proven to be completely baseless as Good Charity raised over $1.4 million in contributions in 2011 alone. Good Charity also failed to provide a reliable projection of its fundraising expenses. Good Charity projected zero dollars in fundraising expenses for the three-year period of 2011-2013, yet it reported over $1.2 million in fundraising expenses in its 2011 tax filing. Given that Good Charity contradicted itself by contracting with a professional fundraising company soon after it said it would not do so in its tax exemption application, it appears that Good Charity either failed to prepare its application with sufficient attention and care or knowingly provided misinformation to the IRS.

Good Charity's January 2011 tax exemption application also contains contradictory and misleading information related to the disclosure of its purpose and grant-making intentions. Good Charity's stated Purpose of Corporation includes "the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations" and its 2011 annual report financial summary lists an amount disbursed for "Total Grants For Program Related Services," yet Good Charity indicated in its tax exemption application that it would not make grants, loans, or other distributions to organizations. Also confusing is that although Good Charity calls its 2011 distributions to organizations "grants" in its annual report financials, these same distributions were not classified as such in its 2011 tax filing, which allowed Good Charity to avoid disclosure of its grant recipients and the amounts that they received. Further, Good Charity's tax exemption application includes the following: "As we collect money throughout the year, we will make donations to the various 501(c)3 organizations that we have selected. Once a donation is made, we will update our site to reflect our efforts. This is another way our followers can keep up to date on how their contributions are being used." Upon a review of Good Charity's website, however, it fails to fully update its "followers" as to how their contributions are being used because no contribution amounts are identified in any of the news updates or contributions lists provided on the website (as of April 10, 2013). Rather, vague language such as "proud to financially support" or "proud to contribute to" a particular organization or cause is used. Good Charity's financial reporting of its grant distributions in 2011 also is confusing and inconsistent as Part III of its tax filing indicates that $74,900 of grants were made from Good Charity's National Breast Cancer Awareness Fund, but its annual report allocates this $74,900 among five different Good Charity funds. The "Our Work" section of Good Charity's website (as of February 15, 2013) does list specific names of organizations to which it distributed contributions in 2011 through the five funds identified in its annual report, but no associated contribution amounts are included. Good Charity's contradictions regarding its grant-making activities and failure to be transparent with the dollar amounts being contributed to the various charities it has selected to support is another cause for serious concern.

Although Good Charity claims that it helps its donors by giving them assurance that their financial contributions are going to organizations that will properly use their money, CharityWatch questions how safe and effective using this type of "middleman" is in the donation process. Perhaps Good Charity is directing funds to efficiently run charities, but how efficient is Good Charity itself? Based on its first year financials, Good Charity's cost to raise funds and percent of expenses spent on program services are at extremely inefficient levels, even for a new charity. According to Good Charity's 2011 tax filing, Insight raised $1.44 million in contributions for Good Charity at an expense of $1.26 million. This equates to a cost of $88 to raise every $100 of funds. Good Charity retained just $180,058 (or 12.5%) of the over $1.4 million in contributions raised by Insight but granted less than half of this amount to the programs it claims to be raising funds to support. Although one part of Good Charity's 2011 tax filing erroneously indicates that it spent between about $200,000 and $500,000 each for four of its program services, another part of the filing correctly reports that Good Charity's total program service expenses actually were less than $93,000. Based on total program service expenses of $92,878, less than 7% of Good Charity's total expenses for 2011 was spent on charitable programs. Given that Good Charity is using such a large portion of its raised funds to pay Insight while spending such a small percentage of its expenses on program services, how can Good Charity claim, as it does in its tax exemption application, that it gives its donors "assurance that by supporting our efforts, their money will be used effectively"? Wise donors will avoid such a "middleman" and instead perform their own independent research and rely on the information provided by organizations such as CharityWatch before making a charitable contribution.

The names under which Good Charity may be soliciting funds through Insight include the following:

America's Missing Children's Fund
The Autistic Society Fund
Children's Leukemia of America Fund
Disaster Relief & Aid Fund
Disabled and Paralyzed Veterans Fund
Disabled Veterans Wheelchair Games
Michigan Disabled & Paralyzed Veterans Fund
National Breast Cancer Awareness Fund
Terminally Ill Children's Fund
The home page of Good Charity's website lists these funds, complete with logo designs and corresponding "Updates & Achievements" for each fund when it is clicked on for more information. Given the names of these funds and sometimes similar looking logo designs, one could easily be confused or misled into thinking that these funds are independently-operated national charities that have partnered with Good Charity to receive contributions. This, however, is not the case. These are funds that have been created by Good Charity. It is important to realize that Good Charity's reported expenditures for these funds are not necessarily grants to outside charities. For example, when Good Charity stated in its 2011 tax form that it made $456,000 in expenditures for the Disabled and Paralyzed Veterans Fund, Children's Leukemia of America Fund and Terminally Ill Children's Fund, it did so while making just over $13,000 in grants (as reported in its annual report) to charities that serve these causes.

Good Charity's current fundraising agreement with Insight continues through May 3, 2014, and Good Charity has been licensed to solicit funds in 24 states. Given the key personnel connections between Good Charity and Insight, the contradictions and misleading information in Good Charity's tax exemption application, the high fundraising costs paid to Insight, the small portion of expenses spent on charitable programs in 2011, and the lack of details related to the dollar amounts being contributed to the various charities it has selected to support, CharityWatch cautions donors that it may not be a "good" decision to give to Good Charity or any of the charitable funds it has created.

You guys are all retarded In all honesty. We will keep calling no matter what!

The caller rings twice and hangs up or never answers after I answer.
Calls have been received the last couple days 2-3 times a day.

I didn't recongize the number on my Blackberry so I did not answer the call - did a reverse look-up via whitepages and came across the name Larry D. Suell - who the hell is this guy and why would he want his name attached to the number? Does this guy exist or is it a fake name? From the comments on this website Larry D. Suell has been busy for quite some time. Whtever you do NEVER give these people any personal information - most non profits asking for donations do so through a reputable company.

Please stop calling me before I report you to the phone company about harrassment.

Whoever this Will Montgomery figure is - they are using three different numbers to harrass people by calling and hanging up.

They must be doing that just to verify phone numbers to sell to other marketing firms.

Other number used by the same company

1248569147 (12/12/ 3:58pm)
18664322929 (12/12 12:26pm)
12485691471 (12/12 12:21pm) IPOS insight

I have been receiving calls numerous times daily from 248-569-1475
When I answer, they hang up--very IRRITATING!!

This number calls me everyday, twice a day, but wants to talk to the man of the house, will not talk to me directly.  They give me the same attitude, will not talk to me or hang up when I answer.  

I asked today who they are, what company they are calling from and why, will NOT tell me anything.  I said man of house no longer lives here, we will see if they call me back again after today, 11/28/09.

My next step will be to call my own telephone service and have this # blocked from calling me.

248-569-1475 Will Montgomery was on my caller ID.  No message.  Who is this?

The number has been calling my cell phone for the last week. They never respond when we answer. I only see the phone number on my cell phone display.

For the last week or so we have had this telemarketer call and not allowing a phone to picked up after 2 rings, auto-dialers in use.  The ID says Montgomery Will, which I tracked down to a company called Insite Support Services with locations in South Carolina, here is their information: Contact us by Phone at: 877.377.1336
Write to us at: InSite Support 203 Cash Control Rd Newberry, SC 29108

I suggest giving them a call on their 877 # because it cost them $$ to have that # and for someone to answer it.  Maybe someone could get an auto-dialer set it up to randomly dial their #, maybe they would get the hint.

I believe that state governments and the federal government (FCC) ought to require that charities have a physical contact number when the receiving caller (us) requests such, so that we can call them and advise them that we will not contribute to their charity if they continue to out-source their request for donations.  Or one of us ought to donate to this particular cause and then post the charity that is using this out-source primary corporate number and various directors numbers, then start calling them randomly.

Charities can not afford the loss of our contributions at any time, especially during these times; especially with the caller is rude and using foul language, what does that say about the charity.

I have been receiving calls numerous times daily from 24-569-1475
When I answer, they hang up--very IRRATATING!!

has called in the past 6 days - 11 times. If they really want to talk to someone leave a message not harass someone every single day!!

11/17 - 7:37 pm
11/18 - 10:37 am
11/18 - 12:50 pm
11/18 - 6:04 pm
11/19 - 5:44 pm
11/19 - 8:10 pm
11/20 - 9:35 am
11/20 - 12:52 pm
11/21 - 9:46 am
11/22 - 10:59 am
11/22 - 12:35 pm

Received a call on Nov 17, 6:30 p.m.  Informed caller that person that formerly owned this number passed away about 4 years ago.  Comment from caller was "who cares".  Have received call several times in the last couple of days.

I've received a call from the company as stated below and they were looking for charitable donations for exploited and missing children. I asked them how they got my number and they said it was on file from past donations of other charities that I have contributed to in the past. They, apparently, are a company that makes calls for these charity organizations. Not too happy about this. Unable to retrieve the number but would like to be on a "no call list." How do I do this?

A similar experience here. Multiple calls each day from 517-679-0757. The caller ID indicates the caller is in Lansing, MI.

I worked for this Company before... and I Quit because  i felt that they were scamming people. They call and ask you if you'd like to help out the charity, fine no problem. But Wait!! you have to donate a miniumn of $15.00. plus not all of your donation will go to the charity that they are calling you about. a percentage goes to the company. I thank, that if someone would like to help, then they should be able to help out with whatever donation they can help out with. Weather it be $1.00 or even $7.50  a donation is a donation no matter what! And if they tell you that they will send you out Information.. DO NOT believe them, they are putting you down for a pledge for the $15.00 so they can send the card out to you and some may not tell you that! They will tell you just to wait on the line, so that they can double check your address before sending anything out to you. and once you get the card in the mail, they will not stop calling you until you pay the pledge that you "so call said that you would help out with" even if you didnt. they do have a phone number it is 734-246-9770

We too are on the national DO NOT CALL list; but, alas, charities are exempt. They(Insight Teleservices)  have called our number numerous times  over the past few weeks. Each time I've picked up (to see if it's a DNC violation -I love telling the caller that I'm forwarding their info onto the FCC) - they sit there breathing into the phone and finally hang up. The most irritating part is that they call numerous times each day!

Insight Teleservices has called from 248-569-1483 several times day and night for the past 2 weeks. I finally answered and they asked for $40 pledge to Wisconsin Paralyzed Vets. I informed them that I gave to Paralyzed Veterans of America on a regular basis during the year. They would not take no for an answer, I finally hung up on them. Shame on Wisconsin Paralyzed Vets if they are using this service as a fund raiser.

Here is Insight Teleservices' Facebook page, open to the public. You can see the employees. Show them what you think of them:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16262360011

Caller from 248-569-1475 left no message, but the Caller ID showed Insight Teleservices; called midday.

Scam caller.  This isn't a real charity, unless you count someone that collects dollars for themselves.  Real charities will answer you when you ask what percentage of the donation goes to the charity and how much is profit.  This guy wouldn't answer.  He just hung up.

Calls from 248-569-1475 and 248-569-1471 (Insight Teleservices) average 3 calls a day to our phone since early November - 14 of the last 50 calls on our caller ID are from them.  Repeated requests to take are number off their lists have been ignored.  While it is true that charities are exempt from "do not call" lists, third party callers (which is what Insight is) are required by the FTC to remove your name from their lists if you request that, and failure to do that cvan result in substantial fines from the government.  My advice is to get documentation that you have notified them via e-mail, and if the calls persist, contact the FTC at ftc.gov.  You can visit Insight's website at insightteleservices.com and there is a "Contact Us" area where you can e-mail them.  However when I did it, it kept saying that it could not connect to the server.  However, elsewhere on the website I found an e-mail address of jack@insightteleservices.com, which did work.  I would recommend that you e-mail your request to that address and state emphatically that you want off their lists and tell them you know of the FTC rules.  In fact, to give them a taste of their own medicine, you may want to e-mail it multiple times, mentioning to them that you learned this technique from them.  It can't hurt.

This number calls us several times daily. Never leaves a message.  I haven't answered it to see who's on the other end.

InSite Teleservices. It is a fund raising company. it thinks that it is exempt from "do not call" lists because they work for charities.

YA THIS SORRY BASTERED HAS CALLED ALOT IN THE PAST FEW DAYS, IF HE KEEPS IT UP I'LL REPORT HIM AS A STOCKER.

I have been receiving several calls a day from 248-569-1475 Montgomery Will.  I do not answer calls that I do not recognize the name. I have enrolled in opt out so they should not be calling me.

It is a place that takes charitable donations for certain charities. I have called the number back and there is a recording.

been getting calls for about a week now, like 2-3 times daily from 1-248-569-1475. Caller I.D. says Ipsos insight. never heard of it b4

I've had several calls over the last couple days. Calls come in at several times a day:about 2 PM, 6:30 PM , 1 PM and 3:20 PM. Leaves no message and does not reply when I do answer my phone.