According to the Bloomberg Report the American Cancer Society actively told InfoCision telemarketers to lie to potential donors, during the course of the companies contract with them.
"Staff members are having to do more with less and it is the beneficiaries who suffer," says the authors of the Brigespan Group report.
The greed and misrepresentation at the top is the first problem, the second is that they are as much a bureaucracy and a victim of the bureaucracy of the governments from which they are supposed to save us from.
"The point of having a private nonprofit system is that it is supposed to make getting otherwise overly complicated services easier for the people that need them or to be able to work outside the box to correct problems that Government bureaucracies can't handle," said Dani Finger, an artist and Social Justice activist in the Washington D.C. area.
However; the reality is that they are not performing this function, whether organizations claim to be looking for a cure for cancer, solving the issue of poverty or preventing youth violence there seems to be little if no headway being made and it seems that the bigger the charity the less headway is made.
"How can the nonprofit sector be the innovative machine that we need it to be when they are burdened by over regulation, there has to be a better solution to ensure they are spending the money we give them on what it's meant for," said T.C. Hall of Peace House.
In theory Government, nonprofit partnerships should be far more beneficial to the underprivileged communities they serve; however, it is this partnership and the restrictions imposed by Government agencies that often prevents nonprofits from being as innovative as they would otherwise be while still failing to prevent the misuses of public funds.
Normally nonprofits are paid through a line item reimbursement system based on a pre-approved budget which make them more accountable for how services are delivered than whether or not the desired effects are achieved.
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