Nonprofits as Policy Solutions to the Burden of Government

Chapter 12 – Corruption and Control: Protecting the Assets for Lessening the Burden of Government

Corruption and the inefficient management of costs, including cost overruns, are organization killers. They reduce the ability of the organization to successfully transfer a burden of government, destroy the confidence that collaborators and others have in the organization, and left unattended will render the organization either a corrupt entity as in Chapter 1 or a financially challenged one. In either case, this spells failure in the mission of relieving of the burden of government. It would be much too easy to recommend that nonprofits lessening the burden of government adopt a control system used by government such as delineated in the OMB Circular ...