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A Call for Nonprofit Transparency … from a Shroud of Secrecy

by Tom Durso on January 9th, 2008

Nonprofits are human endeavors, and as noble as are the intentions of those who found them and work for them, malfeasance will happen. Even within those confines, it’s still striking that a nonprofit that assesses the effectiveness of charities based on, among other criteria, their transparency would itself be stung by the willful obfuscation of one of its own executives. Yet that’s exactly what happened at GiveWell, which demoted executive director and cofounder Holden Karnofsky and whacked his salary by 5 Gs after he posted a question and Ask MetaFilter and then answered his own question under a different user name by directing readers to his own nonprofit. (See more, including Karnofsky’s plea for leniency, here.) | 501(c)

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