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BBB provides standards-based accreditation, education, and tools that reward transparency and responsiveness, including business profiles, complaint resolution, and scam reporting, and it operates through a network of local BBBs to serve communities.","mission":"BBB's mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust.","directory":{"industryName":"Nonprofit","agentCount":74,"indexable":true,"hubUrl":"https://nowen.ai/industry/nonprofit"},"aiReaderFamilies":["OpenAI","Meta","Amazon"],"products":[{"name":"BBB Accreditation","type":"Service","url":"https://www.bbb.org/get-accredited","summary":"Enhance business credibility and consumer trust with BBB Accreditation.","description":"BBB Accreditation is a certification program that requires businesses to meet BBB’s eight Standards for Trust. The standards include trust-building, advertising honesty, truthful representations, transparency, honoring promises, responsiveness, privacy safeguards, and integrity. 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