Consumer Organizations

The Institute of Consumer Financial Education

The Insitute of Consumer Financial Education is an award-winning non-profit organization that provides consumer finance and credit education. Founded by the late Loren Dunton, creator of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) designation, the ICFE is a Department of Defense Financial Readiness Campaign partner, and also trains and certifies Certified Credit Report Reviewers and Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialists.

Website: www.icfe.info
 

Council of Better Business Bureaus

The Better Business Bureau system provides general consumer resource information, business reliability reports (based upon consumer complaints received), and information regarding national charities.

Main BBB Website: www.bbb.org
BBB Wise Giving Alliance website for information about charities: www.give.org

National Consumer League

Provides general information regarding miscellaneous fraud and consumer issues www.nclnet.org

World Privacy Forum

The World Privacy Forum is a nonprofit public interest research group. Specific areas of WPF focus include consumer data privacy, workplace privacy, job applicant rights and privacy, background checks and public records, identity issues, communications privacy, medical and financial privacy, and large technological infrastructures, including databases.

Website: http://www.worldprivacyforum.org

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Provides general information regarding miscellaneous consumer privacy and related issues. http://www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm

Provides general ID Theft information and basic victim advice http://ww.idtheftcenter.org