Inside a Good Charity

Doug White

Chapter Chapter Nine in The Nonprofit Challenge, 2010, pp 171-184 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is time to look at a charity that embraces the four pillars of ethical behavior at nonprofits. This may be risky because you never know when a once-venerated charity or leader of a charity might be exposed in the press, having been implicated in the latest scandal to rock the nonprofit world. Gateway to a Cure comes immediately to mind in this regard. Established in the 1990s to support spinal cord research, in 2007 its reputation was turned completely around—the wrong way. The charity was started by Lou Sengheiser to support spinal cord research after his son was severely injured in a fall. The story was so compelling that the Missouri chapter of Blacktie, a group that connects “nonprofits and the people who support them,”1 wrote an adulatory story about Gateway for a Cure in its magazine. “By giving something back to participants,” Blacktie wrote, the founder “makes charitable giving an active, two-way relationship.”2 The only problem was that the charity wasn’t really doing very much to raise money for spinal cord research, and then it was learned the founder had been running a bogus auction—at $1,000 per ticket—to win a mansion on a golf course that personally benefited him.3

Keywords: Executive Director; Ethical Behavior; Affordable Housing; Homeless People; Board Chair (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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