November 11, 2004 | Read Time: 1 minute
Independent Sector has appointed 25 officials from charities and foundations to its new Panel on the Nonprofit Sector that the organization formed at the request of the Senate Finance Committee.
Senators asked Independent Sector, a coalition of about 600 nonprofit groups and grant makers, to assemble a panel to recommend legislative actions to help stamp out abuses at tax-exempt organizations (The Chronicle, October 14). Senators also requested that the organization recommend ways to strengthen governance, ethical conduct, and effective practices at nonprofit organizations.
Independent Sector said that the panel will be led by Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and M. Cass Wheeler, chief executive officer of the American Heart Association.
Independent Sector also named an eight-member Expert Advisory Group that will assist the panel.
The advisory group will be led by Joel L. Fleishman, director of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions at Duke University, and Marion R. Fremont-Smith, senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
To see all the appointments made by Independent Sector and to obtain information about the efforts to develop recommendations for the Senate Finance Committee, go to the coalition’s Web site at http://www.independentsector.org/panel/main.htm.
