Intended to ensure and strengthen public confidence in the integrity, quality, and effectiveness of member organizations and their programs, InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) were created when the overseas work of PVOs was dramatically increasing in scope and significance. Defining the financial, operational, and ethical code of conduct for InterAction and its member agencies, these high and objective standards, self-applied, set InterAction members apart from many other charitable organizations. Indeed, in various aspects, the InterAction PVO Standards exceed the prevailing standards of the Better Business Bureau and the National Charities Information Bureau.