Some in the legal profession seem to be stuck in an obsolete paradigm of compliance, transparency, and good board governance for nonprofits—while the accounting profession (and Sarbanes-Oxley) advocates a holistic approach with an integrated system of internal controls as its centerpiece.
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.
Strategic planning, a management technique long ago rejected by for profit businesses, thrives in the charity industry mostly because funders insist on it. And the exercise has drifted from both strategy and planning to emphasize consensus-building instead.
The Government Accounting Office found flaws in the religious visa program in 1999, and Immigration confirmed widespread fraud in 2005. Finally, new regulations are proposed.
External oversight keeps executive pay reasonably proportionate to the rest of staff salaries in the US Federal government, and far less than that $400,000 salary of the President.
The national office of the Delta Zeta sorority kicks out 23 of 35 members in the chapter at DePauw University in the week before fall final exams, including all the overweight ones. The sorority's leadership claims there was a miscommunication.
The state closed down operation (managed by a convicted felon) for failure to file required reports, and the former executive director collected unemployment while still writing herself paychecks.
