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A guide to watching the watchdogs.
Oklahoma seeks to join the nonprofit transparency parade.
More bad news about nonprofits and ethics.
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As the Nonprofiteer demonstrated Tuesday, one person’s ethics can be another person’s unwanted obligations. Houston Chronicle business columnist Shannon Buggs wrote last week about a set of principles recommended by a panel convened by Independent Sector, a coalition of charities, foundations, and corporate giving programs, regarding "ethical conduct, accountability, and transparency." Six of the 33 […]
A new study puts an estimated price tag on what theft by nonprofit employees costs their organizations each year.
Forty billion dollars. That’s billion, with a "B."
From yesterday’s New York Times:
Almost 95 percent of the reported frauds entailed loss of cash, and a majority of those involved false or inflated invoices, billing for expenses that were […]
Management expert Jim Collins, the author of the New York Times bestseller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, spoke recently with Contribute editor Marcia Stepanek about his thoughts on what he calls the "social sector." A couple of years back Collins wrote a 36-page monograph applying the topics […]
A pair of stories that broke recently offer some lessons for nonprofits on how to deal with bad news that becomes public.
In New York, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation not only cashiered a couple of employees when an internal audit revealed that hundreds of thousands of dollars was missing, it also asked the Manhattan district […]
Carolyn Kellogg, who writes at the Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy, noted yesterday that the gang-truce nonprofit cited by fraudulent memoirist Margaret B. Jones (née Seltzer) as her means of remaining linked to the ‘hood where she didn’t grow up may — brace yourself – not exist:
… [W]ho talks to the little kids? The author […]
As “the trusted philanthropic advisor to more than 1,600 individuals, families, and businesses who want to make a difference in the lives of others through charitable giving,” the Columbus Foundation, located in Ohio’s capital city, makes a pretty good case for its claim of being “your community foundation.” The foundation strengthened its case last week […]
Last week the b5 servers got all hinky on us, and posting to and reading the network’s blogs — including the 501(c) Files — was a sketchy proposition for a day or two. That got a lot of us here on the Business Channel thinking about crisis management. For nonprofits, I think, there are a […]
Hey, have you heard that the United States is in the midst of a presidential campaign? And you know what that means: In addition to epic pandering, lofty promises, and countless charges and countercharges, the airwaves are now filled to the rafters with commercials making all sorts of extraordinary claims. Sometimes they’re positive ads, with […]
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