In July 2017 the Saint Louis, Missouri Better Business Bureau (BBB) published a caution to consumers in their decision to donate to Hampton's Center.
[4] Furthermore, the BBB reported that over a two-year period from 2014 to 2016 the two major fundraisers used by the center, Reno, Nevada-based Outreach Calling and Phoenix, Arizona-based Midwest Publishing, had collected almost $USD 5 million.
In a June 16, 2017 press release, he "announced a settlement with the Breast Cancer Survivors Foundation, Inc., ("BCSF"), and its president and founder Dr. Yulius Poplyansky.
"[5] In 2007 Brian Arthur Hampton, the co-founder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity, Circle of Friends for American Veterans (COFAV), hired Outreach Calling.
[11] COFAV received an F rating from CharityWatch in 2016, a consumer warning from the Saint Louis, MissouriBetter Business Bureau (BBB) in July 2017 and was the subject of a Center for Public Integrity (CPI) report in December 2017.
COFAV contracts with professional fundraisers who work through telemarketers such as Midwest Publishing,[4][12][13] and until 2014, Company Civic Development Group (CDG).
[14] In July 2017 the Saint Louis, Missouri Better Business Bureau (BBB) published a caution to consumers in their decision to donate to Hampton's Center.
[4] Furthermore, the BBB reported that over a two-year period from 2014 to 2016 the two major fundraisers used by the center, Reno, Nevada-based Outreach Calling and Phoenix, Arizona-based Midwest Publishing, had collected almost $USD 5 million.
[12] In a 2014 article in which telemarketing company Civic Development Group (CDG) was ordered to pay "$18.8 million, the largest penalty ever handed down in a consumer protection case" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), COFAV, Paralyzed Veterans Association, and Disabled Veterans Association were listed on the F rated charities for which CDG fundraised.
The states accused the company of suggesting more money would go to the charity or be spent locally, that its callers were law enforcement officers or veterans and that individuals had made pledges.
At that time it was soliciting for such nonprofit clients as the American Deputy Sheriffs' Association (ADSA), Foundation for Disabled Firefighters (FDF), National Association of Veteran Police Officers (NAVPO), Regular American Veterans (RAV), Handicapped Children's' Services of America (HCSA), and Adolescent Aids Foundation (AAF).
"[18] In a July 8, 2019 Center for Public Integrity article about ongoing investigations of Brian Arthur Hampton and his nonprofits, that he operated out of his Falls Church office, such as the Put Vets First!
"[2] According to the Center for Public Integrity, by January 2018, Outreach Calling Inc "which keeps most of the $$ it raises for its charity group clients, is expanding into the lightly regulated world of political fundraising.
[20] According to Kleiner, it is legal for telemarketer Outreach Calling to keep 90 percent of the money it raises for charities and/or political action groups as long as the donors are told this will happen.
According to the Federal Election Commission disclosures, "[t]elemarketers kept $4.4 million of that, and Hampton earned about $183,500....Most of the rest went to pay the PAC's other employees and consultants, bank and legal fees and rent.