Second Mile Weighing Options Including Closure

Ruth McCambridge

November 21, 2011

November 20, 2011; Source: WNEP | A statement from Second Mile, the charity at the center of the Sandusky scandal, reveals that the board is weighing all options, including closing completely. Other options it cites are restructuring its programs to function on much less money and transferring its programs to other organizations. The first and the third seem not to be mutually exclusive, but it will be interesting to see what would entice another organization to pick them up at this point. The organization has a staff of thirty. Sandusky, the founder of Second Mile, and the former defensive coordinator at Penn State, has been accused of sexually abusing fifteen young boys.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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