Kevin Brasler, Checkbook.org, News Partner

Consumers' Checkbook is published by the Center for the Study of Services, an independent, nonprofit consumer organization founded in 1974. It has for more than 40 years been an innovator in providing information to help consumers make smarter choices. Checkbook surveys consumers and evaluates the quality and prices of local service providers and products, and reports its findings online and in regional magazines in the Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle metro areas—and, for some services, nationally. Checkbook also provides comprehensive advice to help people save time, money, and hassle.

Checkbook has invented many consumer information products and systems and has won various awards including the National Press Club's First Place Award for Excellence in Consumer Journalism, the Consumer Federation of America's Consumer Service Award, the National Quality Forum's Consumers and Patients for Quality Award, and the Robert Wood Johnson's Plan Choice Challenge.