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Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors
Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors
Winter 2007
Welcome
Welcome to Winter 2007
Ethics & Conflict
The Nonprofit Ethicist: Winter 2007

Shady spousal dealings, complicated board loyalties, and the IRS, all in this edition of the Ethicist!

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Media & Communications
NOT a Spin-Free Zone: Reflections on the Utility and Price of Nonprofit Spin
In this surreal time of justifying foreign policy and disregarding global warming, it is easy for the nonprofit sector to consider “spin” a proprietary tool of the Bush administration, Fox News, and big business. In fact, our sector uses spin routinely.
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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
Peak Performance: Nonprofit Leaders Rate Highest in 360-Degree Reviews

A study conducted by Community Resource Exchange (CRE), a nonprofit social-change consulting firm, and Performance Programs Inc. (PPI), a consulting firm that specializes in leadership and organizational assessment, showed that nonprofit leaders received higher ratings than for-profit leaders based on feedback from direct reports, managers, peers, and a category called “others.”

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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
What Makes Powerful Nonprofit Leaders

Business leaders face a very different power structure than do social-sector leaders. 

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Exposes, Scandal and Fraud
How to Steal from a Nonprofit: Who Does It and How to Prevent It

Is it easier to steal from a nonprofit organization than from a business? That’s what some researchers have speculated. To identify how people steal from nonprofits and how to prevent it, we turned to the biannual surveys of fraud examiners.

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Financial Management: Processes
Assessing Fraud Risk
The authors present questions that every organization should ask when determining fraud risk.
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Accountability: Regulation
The Whistle-blower: Policy Challenges For Nonprofits

Why are many employees, at every level, and even in “compassionate” nonprofit organizations, reluctant or fearful to report anything up the ladder that is not positive? If they do and subsequently face adversity, what is the remedy? What can we suggest to these employees and to organizational leaders?

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Consulting
Ensuring a Successful Consulting Engagement

What do you need to know when engaging a consultant?

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Case Study
The United Way's Way or Bust

One of the nonprofit sector's flagship organizations and a cultural icon has another new strategy. Will it work?

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Governance
Government Funding and Community Representation on Nonprofit Boards: The Bargain We Strike
Government funding changes the composition of boards and the way nonprofits function. What can you do about it?
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Organizational Culture & Development
Organizational Culture Checkup: An Interview with Erline Belton
When an organization’s culture needs to be revitalized, the starting point needs to be each member’s own behavior....
 
Satire
Spoiled by Democracy
Should private colleges and universities with annual tuition and fees of $50,000 and multimillion-dollar endowments remain exempt from paying local property taxes for schools, police, and fire protection?...