"The over compensation at the top leaves service workers with less to do more at the expense of the clients, which is where the majority of the money was supposed to go in the first place otherwise what the hell is the point of people giving to charity in the first place. To pay someone hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to do nothing but collect a check, without correcting the problem you set your heart to want to correct," said Finger.
Simplifying regulations would also ensure easier compliance for nonprofits while reducing some of the administrative costs leading to nonprofits not only being able to meet the 35 percent administrative and solicitation cost cap suggested by many experts in the nonprofit sector but being able to reduce costs at least several percent below that target.
Nonprofits are supposed to be transparent as it is, but transparency only works if the organization whether public or private is being honest in its reporting to the agencies it is required to report to and to the public it serves.
A Sunshine Act component that is enforceable with not just yearly but quarterly independent or government audits would not just improve accuracy in reporting to all parties involved but would create a one stop shop for accurate information to be made to all interested parties to be made free of charge under the freedom of information act or similar legislation specific to the nonprofit industry.
It would create a situation where nonprofits, their executives and the regulatory system itself would all be able to be held to a higher standard not just in reporting but also in the conduct of their state business, as part of this aspect of any legislation I would argue for extra protections similar to those provided to court officials in the conduct of their duty, for whistle-blowers against organizations who would try to silence their information through some aspect of the law.
This sort of protection would ensure a greater number of whistle-blowers come forward when wrongdoing occurs. Granting certain contractual immunities as well as immunity against criminal prosecution for the method of obtaining information, if it proves to be accurate would create a secondary system of accountability to the public and a second pair of eyes available to prosecutors.
"One of the problems of police and regulation enforcement agencies is, who watches the watcher. As a journalist I always felt that this fell on the shoulders of the media, this is the reason we work in the only constitutional proscribed and protected profession. One of our main sources of information to do our jobs, as the watchers of the watchers, is the whistle-blower. Traditionally their identities have been protected.
However, in recent years this right and obligation to protect sources has been made more difficult by corrupt administrations and undue corporate influence in government, which shows me that those sources now need strong legislation passed to protect them where we can not. There are many who can not or are not willing to risk prolonged imprisonment for refusing to reveal sources which has occurred in several instances, leaving a situation where sources are put in between the proverbial rock and the hard place of their conscious and the legal consequences of doing the right thing," said Sharon Woods.
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