It's not "Make A Wish". It's "Kids Wish Network" You're about to get someone in trouble and you don't even know the correct name of the group that's calling. Get your facts right before you open your mouth!!!!

They are definitely real. Just the percent of the donation is low. They are professional fundraisers registered with the state. You can try to contact an attorney, its not going to do any good because they are LEGITIMATE. Its a waste of your time. Better off saying take me off the list nicely.

They are definitely real. Just the percent of the donation is low. They are professional fundraisers registered with the state.

They will definitely not get a fine. It is a different person calling every time so technically it isn't harassment. DO NOT BE RUDE TO THEM. They have the option to 'accidentally' mark you has unavailable when you ask to be removed from the list.

They constantly call our landline with diffent numbers and locations such as Southfield, Lansing, etc.  Always some charity.  Told them to stop calling day and night and if I wanted to give to such a charity, I would do it locally.  They have called our landline for over two years now.  It is complete harrassment.

Anytime I get a call I do a quick search on the number and see what it brings up. That is before I even answer the phone. It never fails to amaze me the people that call me looking for someone else. But in this case the telemarketer asked for someone I dont know so I tried to tell them that but but he just kept asking for the person. I mean how are you going to call someone and tell them you are someone else. I dont know any Damian Muziani the actor doing outreach or calling inc around to people he does not know. So while I am looking this number up I come across the name Brian Maiorana but I dont know him either and cant for the life of me understand why either of them would be asking for credit cards over the phone. Anyway, be careful everyone the BBB has warned about this group and so has Charity Watch. Those are a couple charity watchdogs and their articles are below about this company that I found online.


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.

I have done a little research on the company calling from this number. They also call from phone numbers with area code 517. The company, insight teleservices is located in Southfield Michigan on telegraph rd somewhere near 9 mile rd. They raise money for several different fraudulent charities, such as the "michigan disabled and paralyzed veterans fund", "terminally ill children", "and some other crap called the "childhood leukemia of america foundation". These charities were recently registered in the past 3 or 4 months and all have contracts with insight teleservices to raise money for them. There is no info on the web about any of these charities because they are not real, they were most likely made up by the people who own insight, or someone close to them. The owners of insight teleservices names are Paul Marinelli and Ben Scott. The phone number to insight is 248 552 8866. Please report these crooks to the Michigan attorney general at 1-877-765-8388 or the FTC at 1-888-382-1222 and register a complaint, they need to be shut down ASAP.

keep getting calls from this # caller id says its insight teleser. i don't know them i won't answer

called earlier today. Left no message. Called again tonite at 6:15. Answered told me they were from some child network something. Told them no one was available to taalk to them. Got very rude then. Hung up on them. Did not even come up as unknown name or anything else. Came up with persons name: larry suell.

I get calls from this number, but when I pick up, nobody responds.

The caller asked for "Lynn". when I replied there is no "lynn" here, a Hispanic male proceeded
to say " Maybe you can help us for this worthy cause..." at which I hung up. I used reverse look-up
and the number is listed for Larry Suell in Southfield, MI 48075-4061.

Note caller ID that looks like a person, so I picked up.  Caller was soliciting money for National Leukemia Foundation.  248 area code should be a tipoff.  We don't known anyone in that area, so it has to be Insight "teleservices" masking their calls as personal.

Caller ID says "INSIGHT TELESER".  No one there.

I work at a similar place and yes the charitable organizations are exempt from the national do not call list but they do have their own do not call list and should be happy to place you there if they are asked! It is a law that if you ask to be put on a do not call list they have to do it! Charitable organization or not. Make sure you keep records of when they called. Write down the date and time you asked to be placed on a do not call list and then each and every time they call after that! Then you get a hold of the proper authorities and the company could get up to a $250,000 fine! This is per phone call and depending on your states disclosure laws!

same thing happening to me from for months from a 517 number, which came up to Insight Teleservices when I finally Googled it.

I live in lancaster pa. and my husband and i have been getting these calls for some time also . Just the other day we received a call in the morning we did not answer Larry Suell came up on caller I.D. Later that day they called again. my husband answered and it was a woman wanting a 15$ donation .to a childrens wish network. He started to tell her to stop calling and she hung up on him we have not received any more calls after that.I ALSO THINK THESE PEOPLE ARE CONARTESTS.

I did some research and the only Larry Suell in the Metro Detroit area owns a home at 20581 Huntington Rd in Detroit. He purchased the home from HUD in April 2009 for $10,000. This is at 8 Mile and Evergreen area which is close to Southfield... Called my cell today and hung up when I answered.

called me too. no message.

Got a phone call from this number on my cell  didnt know who it would be googled it and got this forum. they didnt leave a message just called and hung up when i didnt answer.

I received a missed call today.  Glad I checked online!  Thanks for all of your posts.

got a call for the first time today, I missed the call and wasn't sure who it was from I googled it because I am job searching and thought maybe it was from a potential employer.  I'm glad I googled it. the address that someone posted is about a mile from where I will be today.  I  will drive by to see what i see. will post back later

This joker is calling my cell in the am and my husbands in the pm.  Like everyone else I came up with Larry Darnell Suell, Southfield Mi .  Going to report to the Fcc and the police.  This guy is running a con or something not legal

Missed call, no message.

This number has called twice (yesterday and today). I do not know a Larry and wont be answering the calls

Just got a call at 11:40 AM on my cell.  I picked up and they hung up almost immediately.  The call was to my cell phone and I live in the same area code.

Have received several calls from this # - I would see what could be done to shut it down, but these people will just open another line I am sure.

No name, just number on my cell.  Did reverse phone search and found name.  Needed to check because I am doing job searches.  Just a "missed call".  Did not leave a message on voice mail.

just rang once then hung up... weird.

This guy has a rap sheet for Telescaming, avoid, block do what you have to do.  Larry, you better watch out your front door, the FEDS will be coming soon enough and your next call will be from Jackson SP.  Hope the Orange Jump Suit and the 3 squares a day were worth it....

Called and asked for me. When told I wasn't in, they said thanks and hung up. The caller ID reads Insight Teleservices