In a historic move, last week the Federal Trade Commission and state charity offices announced a full-bench press response to the longstanding, widespread, and vile problem of charity fraud in the name of veterans.
The board at this HIV nonprofit has completed its investigation and found no wrongdoing or breaches in its CEO’s behavior. However, “kickbacks for donations” remain problematic, and taking this stance could end up breaking the public’s trust.
Food for the Poor exists in a subsector of nonprofits that have historically had problems with creative accounting, so it should have known better than to engage in some of the practices that are currently being exposed by regulators and media outlets.
An AIDS clinic in Baton Rouge signed a contract with its CEO to give a “cut” of donations over $50,000 to the CEO. What’s wrong with this picture?
The leader of a Boulder, Colorado-based refugee charity took at least two wrongheaded notions about nonprofits and quickly ran the organization into the ground, breaking laws and violating the expectations of many stakeholders in the process.
Pennies on the dollar are finally released to veterans charities after two long-running scams are closed down.
In a historic move that’s long overdue for nonprofits and donors, 25 states’ attorneys general coordinated to sue and close VietNow after 30 years of controversial and exploitive fundraising practice.
So-called “innovations” in fundraising can spread ahead of any real considerations of ethics, so we might try to avoid this recent bright idea in use by political campaigns.
The local head of the chamber of commerce has some choice words regarding stewardship for nonprofits that have been slow to cancel their events at the President’s “Winter White House,” Mar-A-Lago.
PREMIUM CONTENT | It just muddies the accountability stream when an executive director sits on a board, advises the Ethicist. There is no need for that board membership, anyway; good nonprofit execs usually already have a boatload of influence.
