New CEO Mark Everson has resigned after six months on the job for having relations with a chapter executive in Mississippi (giving new meaning to Katrina relief). But the Red Cross has made its greatest strides under interim leadership over the last decade, calling into question whether the organization really needs a high profile chief—and whether they can find one.
The new president of the Ford Foundation commits to continuity, while the organization remains best known for projects it sponsored a over a generation ago.
About a third of the organization's budget goes to pay the president's salary, approved by a five-person board that includes his brother. And we track down the source of its funding.
He confesses that an anonymous accusation that he fibbed on his résumé was correct and loses a month's pay as punishment. But the nonprofit organization that took over the zoo from the city remains in a fight for its life without an assured funding source.
Since Vanderbilt tried to rein in its high-flying president after an unflattering investigation by the Wall Street Journal, he is escaping back to Columbus where he has many friends in high places.
Informal after school program prepares to wind up shop after declining due to competition from programs that raise reading and math test scores. But there are behind-the-scenes hints that direct competition with a for-profit science program and executive transition issues could have played a role, too.
Less than six months after pleading guilty to forgery and receiving a suspended sentence, she went to work for a nonprofit and picked up where she left off.
Every other year, fraud examiners summarize data collected from occupational fraud cases. Small organizations (nonprofit and for-profit) suffer the most.
The second installment of a four-part series surveys the ways that churches running enterprises far removed from worship are exempt from laws protecting employees.
