Update: Questionable AIDS Charity Still Wants Your Money
Back in March, AIDS Action Committee’s Dan Scanlan, Senior Development Officer, brought to your attention the questionable AIDS charity, Center for AIDS Prevention, operating out of Beverly Hills, CA. Journalists at ProPublica, a leading nonprofit newsroom for investigative journalism, had published an initial report calling the Center’s advertising and fundraising activities into question. Despite attempts to further investigate the Center since March, little has been done to regulate its activities, which include major, national media campaigns (soliciting donations) and a website that regularly features inaccurate information about HIV and AIDS.
ProPublica recently published a follow-up report, highlighting in particular a recent Center gaffe involving Tiger Woods. In April, shortly after the Center received a slew of bad press based on the first ProPublica report, the Center was advertising a “Help Stop AIDS Golf Classic,” featuring “special invited guest” Tiger Woods. ProPublica followed up with Woods’s public relations firm, IMG, which found it curious that Woods would be scheduled to appear at a charity golf event during the U.S. Open. Shortly thereafter the Center’s organizers cancelled the event. (Read on …)
