GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR NONPROFITS: DON'T EAT YOUR YOUNG
Government Funding for Nonprofits: Don't Eat Your Young by pam ashlund It's like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under -- Grand Master Flash I have a bad feeling. The same bad feeling I had when I heard about the Homeland Security Act, or the infamous "weapons of mass destruction" speech. My spidey-sense is screaming "Something is going horribly wrong with Nonprofit Accountability". I'm not usually a trend watcher, but me thinks I smell a trend. Seems the fall-out from Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley has finally hit the nonprofit sector. Visits from individual government funding sources are on the rise. OMB A-133 was supposed to protect nonprofit agencies with multiple funding sources from being drowned in a wave of audits. One "Single Agency-wide Audit" would keep everybody happy. Ha! Government agencies found a loop-hole. "We aren't doing an audit, we're just doing a fiscal review". At last count one o...