Summary
You can hardly turn around in the nonprofit world these days without tripping over yet another pronouncement on how to achieve greater accountability in the sector. Unfortunately, neither new legislation, nor accreditation and training initiatives or exhortations to adopt "best practices," will prevent fraud or mismanagement, at least not without a credible threat of enforcement. Further, though nonprofits could seemingly drown in the flood of accountability initiatives, there is virtually no support for nonprofit leaders in dealing with actual ethical crises. This article offers a few suggestions for private initiatives that might make a difference.
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Moving Beyond Reproach
You can hardly turn around in the nonprofit world these days without tripping over yet another pronouncement on how to achieve greater accountability in the sector. Besides the hearings in the Senate and House, the attorneys general in at least 20 states are now moving to impose new regulatory regimes modeled after Sarbanes-Oxley. Practitioner organizations like the Council on Foundations, Independent Sector, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and others have also put forth a blizzar...
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