The Nonprofit Challenge : Integrating Ethics Into the Purpose and Promise of Our Nation’s Charities

Nonprofit Organizations Hold A Special Place In Society As The Nation's Ethical Sector. They Promote Service, Goodwill, And Kindness And Serve To Better Humanity Like Any Business, However, They Can Also Experience Ethical Indiscretions. The Group Of Organizations Whose Sole Purpose In This World Is To Be Good And To Spread That Good Has Yet To Fully Form An Operational Code Of Ethics-a Code That Promotes Humanity As Only The Nonprofit Sector Can. Describing The Challenges Facing Today's Charities, Doug White Explains How Nonprofits Must Reassess Their Commitment To Their Role In Society. This Corrective Journey Can Serve As A Role Model For All The For-profit Businesses As Well As The Government Sector. By Reexamining The Business Of Philanthropy With A New And Ethics-based Mindset, Nonprofits Can Push Themselves To Be Their Very Best And Continue To Make The World A Better Place.--book Jacket. Section I. The Shifting Perceptions Of Allies And Regulators -- One. The Public's View -- Two. Regulating And Scrutinizing Charities -- Section Ii. How The Quest For Money Affects Nonprofits -- Three. Philanthropy Is Big But Does It Have A Purpose? -- Four. The Perils Of Profit-making In The Nonprofit World -- Section Iii. Perceptions And Money: Their Fragile Compact With Good Deeds -- Five. Do Some Charities Want Too Much? -- Six. How Long Does The Dead Hand Live? -- Seven. Why Good Governance Matters -- Section Iv. The Ethical Sector -- Eight. The Four Pillars: The Backbone Of Ethics At Nonprofits -- Nine. Inside A Good Charity -- Ten. The Voluntary Sector As The Ethical Sector. Doug White. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [217]-240) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Section I The Shifting Perceptions of Allies and Regulators......Page 24 One The Public’s View......Page 26 Two Regulating and Scrutinizing Charities......Page 46 Section II How the Quest for Money Affects Nonprofits......Page 68 Three Philanthropy is Big—But Does It Have a Purpose?......Page 70 Four The Perils of Profit-Making in the Nonprofit World......Page 90 Section III Perceptions and Money: Their Fragile Compact with Good Deeds......Page 110 Five Do Some Charities Want Too Much?......Page 112 Six How Long Does the Dead Hand Live?......Page 126 Seven Why Good Governance Matters......Page 144 Section IV The Ethical Sector......Page 160 Eight The Four Pillars: The Backbone of Ethics at Nonprofits......Page 162 Nine Inside a Good Charity......Page 180 Ten The Voluntary Sector as the Ethical Sector......Page 194 Epilogue......Page 222 Notes......Page 228 Index......Page 250 This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society - business and government - would benefit from a similar corrective journey. Nonprofits have yet to fully form an ethical code by which to operate - even though nonprofits comprise the nation's ethical sector. Today we regularly read of egregious ethical lapses at charities where board members and key staff are unable or unwilling to confront difficult issues. This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society - business and government - would benefit from a similar corrective journey