posted on: Wednesday, July 06, 2005

NCRP Applauds CompassPoint Nonprofit Services Call for Nonprofit and Foundation Accountability Reform

In the Summer 2005 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jan Masaoka and Jeanne Bell Peters unveil their oversight and reform recommendations to improve nonprofit and foundation accountability. Masaoka and Peters echo several points that NCRP has long advocated, including an all-grants foundation payout, no or limited compensation of foundation trustees and board members, and basic disclosure requirements for faith-based organizations.
In “What We Really Need: Eight reforms to make nonprofits more accountable and effective,“ Masaoka and Peters write, “Our organization’s experiences in consulting, education, and advocacy with community-based organizations suggest a different set of reforms. We therefore propose the following eight reforms that, in our opinion, would best strengthen both the external accountability of the nonprofit sector and its internal ability to effect social change.”
NCRP hopes that other nonprofit leaders join with us and others in calling for laws and regulations that truly strengthen the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors and bolster public trust in these institutions.
The full text of “What We Really Need” is at: http://www.ssireview.com/pdf/2005SU_pov_masaoka.pdf.