Coalition Names Leaders to Panel Helping Senate

By Grant Williams

Independent Sector has appointed 25 officials from charities and foundations to its new Panel on the Nonprofit Sector that the organization formed at the request of the Senate Finance Committee.

Senators asked Independent Sector, a coalition of about 600 nonprofit groups and grant makers, to assemble a panel to recommend legislative actions to help stamp out abuses at tax-exempt organizations (The Chronicle, October 14).