During a week where markets fluctuated as much as 5%, when a major credit rating bureau downgraded the value of U.S. debt, when consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in 31 years, it was reported that, for at least one fleeting moment, Apple was the most valuable company in America.

FORBES: Apple Is Not THAT Valuable

It maintains an unsatisfactory rating with the Better Business Bureau.

CNN: Watch out for the 'free' stuff

For example, he would be free to publicize the true fact that Monex currently has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau, which the agency says connotes unreliability.

FORBES: Informer

The bureau will then pay each of the rating centers, based on its performance.

FORBES: For Better Rating Agencies Go Back To Campus

The fact is that Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV) and the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes (CSAH) satisfy the minimum acceptable fundraising efficiency percentages of FORBES' own charity-rating system (70%) and the Better Business Bureau's (65%).

FORBES: Clean Hit?