Johns Hopkins Gazette | October 24, 2005-"Report Assesses U.S. Nonprofit Governance and Accountability

Johns Hopkins Gazette | October 24, 2005: "Report Assesses U.S. Nonprofit Governance and Accountability

Amid wide calls for reform, study offers first up-to-date look at actual practices

By Mimi Bilzor
Institute for Policy Studies

With Hurricane Katrina demonstrating anew the need for an effective and reliable network of private, nonprofit organizations to help meet urgent national problems, and recent calls from the Senate Finance Committee and others for increased regulation of nonprofit organizations, a new report from Johns Hopkins' Nonprofit Listening Post Project offers the first up-to-date information on the actual governance and accountability practices of U.S. nonprofit organizations."