Nonprofit boards need education, Spitzer says

Nonprofit boards need education, Spitzer says
By ALLAN DRURY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 16, 2004)
WHITE PLAINS — Education, not prosecution, is the best way to ensure that those who serve on the boards of charities and other nonprofit organizations provide the oversight to keep those groups in compliance with the law, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said yesterday.

Spitzer said those who serve on the boards are often people who have been large donors. They might feel they have fulfilled their obligation to help and fail to ask tough questions of the executives and others running the operation, he said.