May 11th, 2008
Canada tries to inject ethics into fundraising. | Toronto Star
Three little letters to guide nonprofit media pitching. | Nonprofit Communications
A nonprofit professional finds herself on the other side of the fundraising relationship … and doesn’t like it. | Nonprofit Congress Blog
Nonprofits join retailers in making a pitch for the government’s lame attempt to bribe taxpayers […]
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May 3rd, 2008
Sarah Todd, a regional manager for the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, thinks that merely operating within the confines of the law leaves the third sector weaker than it ought to be. Writing in the Savannah Morning News, Todd recommended that nonprofits adopt "a written code of ethics and practice standards" to which staffers, board members, […]
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May 1st, 2008
Forbes is out with a warning that not every nonprofit has a warm and fuzzy back story informing its operations. It seems that home buyers who lack the assets to pony up even the teeniest down payment are finding more and more nonprofits willing to front them the scratch. It’s all legal under a Federal […]
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April 6th, 2008
A guide to watching the watchdogs.
Oklahoma seeks to join the nonprofit transparency parade.
More bad news about nonprofits and ethics.
Don’t forget about this month’s b5 Business Channel contest.
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April 3rd, 2008
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 […]
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April 1st, 2008
At its annual meeting in San Diego, the Association of Fundraising Professionals today released troubling survey results:
More than half of nonprofit executives say they have observed unethical fund-raising behavior … . The most common concern raised by executives: use of percentage-based compensation to pay fund raisers.
To its credit, AFP has campaigned loudly against commission-based fundraising, […]
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March 29th, 2008
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 […]
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March 28th, 2008
Cynics that we are, we expect people in business to look out only for themselves, and we are not surprised at revelations of misconduct by government officials.
Nonprofits appear well on their way to joining that dubious list. And they have only themselves to blame, according to troubling results contained in the just-released National Nonprofits Ethics […]
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March 24th, 2008
Having brought the hammer down on Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer should have been well aware of the dangers of the for-profit sector. Yet when it came time to betray both his marriage and the people of New York State, the governor didn’t have the good sense to go the nonprofit route. Instead, he paid money […]
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March 17th, 2008
The incoming president of the Smithsonian Institution said all the right things after being named its new chief executive over the weekend. The Smithsonian has been tarnished by financial malfeasance committed by its previous secretary, and when Georgia Tech president G. Wayne Clough was tapped by the Institution’s Board of Regents Friday night, he directly […]
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