Tough Measures to Stop Nonprofit Abuses
To the Editor: Pablo Eisenberg’s opinion piece (“A Lukewarm Effort to Curb Abuses by Nonprofit Groups,” Opinion, March 31) unreasonably dismisses the strong measures recommended by the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector in its interim report, overlooks the broad citizen participation and wide range of…
At a time when the United States faces enormous challenges in its relations with other countries, government leaders desperately need the best creative and strategic thinking available. Foundations can do much to supply this intellectual capital, but too often, many of the projects they support are…
By Mitchell B. Reiss
Contributor
Donors, foundations say banks mishandle charitable accountsMany charities and foundations believe they are losing millions of dollars a year to the very institutions they ALSO SEE: Bank Sues Philadelphia Trust in Quest for Additional Compensation Close Monitoring of Charitable Trusts Adds Up to Big…
By Brad Wolverton
Contributor
A Lukewarm Effort to Curb Abuses by Nonprofit Groups
Last fall Independent Sector, a coalition of more than 500 charities and foundations, assembled a committee of 24 nonprofit leaders to recommend to the Senate Finance Committee how best to curb abuses and increase the public accountability of nonprofit organizations. It also appointed five groups…
By PABLO EISENBERG
Contributor
The Political Challenges Facing Charities and Foundations
By Leslie Lenkowsky Although the Congressional debate over changing the tax laws affecting philanthropy is likely to continue for several months, it is already pretty clear who will win and who will lose. On balance, the nonprofit world is not doing badly protecting items it considers important,…
After the Barnes Ruling: What Donors Should Do to Protect Their Wishes
Donors have had plenty of reasons in recent months to wonder about how best to ensure that charities are ALSO SEE:A Dangerous Precedent for Unpopular Groups carrying out their wishes. In the Senate, well-publicized hearings have been held about abuses by charities and foundations, and the Internal…
By Francis J. Serbaroli
Contributor
A Dangerous Precedent for Unpopular Groups
Nonprofit groups, with the government’s imprimatur, have always given people in the minority -- and those with ALSO SEE:After the Barnes Ruling: What Donors Should Do to Protect Their Wishes new or unpopular ideas -- an opportunity to promote their causes. But a Pennsylvania court ruling was a…
By Marie C. Malaro
Contributor
False Notes in Report on Merger’s Effects
To the Editor: As a vice chair of United Jewish Communities and a leader of one of the merging organizations reported on in Debra Nussbaum Cohen’s “Merger of Jewish Groups Fails to Meet Expectations, Report Finds” (February 17), I fear that both the title and text of the article on the study by…