The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | Lessons to be Learned from Sandusky’s Second Mile Charity: Issues in Nonprofit Governance

The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | Lessons to be Learned from Sandusky’s Second Mile Charity: Issues in Nonprofit Governance: Michael Wyland is one half of the Sumption &Wyland consulting firm, and, fortunately for NPQ, a regular reader and commenter on NPQ newswires. Lately, he has posted comments on our coverage of the child abuse scandal swirling around former assistant football coach at Penn State University Jerry Sandusky and the youth charity he founded, Second Mile. Wyland has posted a very useful inventory of some of the governance problems of the Second Mile, which lead to “lessons . . . that other nonprofit organizations can learn from.” He cites 12 issues that he characterizes as “departures from what is generally considered ‘best practice’ in nonprofit governance and management”: