 Howard Brown Health operates three resale shops called The Brown Elephant in Chicago's Lakeview and Andersonville neighborhoods and in suburban Oak Park.The Andersonville location made it to the list of "10 Things to Do in Chicago" by "Time" magazine's "City Guide".In 2010, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered that Howard Brown mad mishandled $3 million in grant funds between 2006 and 2010.