The article in the url link below adopts a bi-partisan approach to evaluating the past interactions of specific presidential candidates with charitable groups (Issues: NGO and Corporate Cooperation, p192). The goal is to infer how the candidates might treat the non-profit sector if they are elected President or, at least, how they should act to correct perceived past inconsistencies:
“One might hope that a President Romney or Giuliani would advocate against the use of non-profit leadership posts as sinecures for ethically challenged individuals. … A President Obama might want to ensure his plan for national health insurance ensures that non-profit hospitals remember that they are meant to be charitable. … A President McCain or Edwards might want to rethink the ability of politicians to mix their charities and political operations, and to use non-profit law to cloak swathes of their financial operations behind “donor confidentiality”. … A second President Clinton might advocate lifting the secrecy around politicians’ charitable institutions.”
Most of the analysis is far from complimentary:
“At present, the platform of most of the presidential candidates of both parties equates to “I (heart) the non-profit sector”. As the campaign progresses, maybe they will embellish that with substantive commitments to the sector’s ethics, accountability and transparency.”
Take care
Dave
Bill Werther & David Chandler
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
© Sage Publications, 2006
http://www.sagepub.com/Werther
‘Presidents’ with thin promises
By RICK COHEN
711 words
19 January 2008
Financial Times
America Ed1
Life & Arts Page 4
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b76d3c54-c623-11dc-8378-0000779fd2ac.html
