Half of Charity Employees Report Seeing Ethical Lapses

Two new studies suggest that unethical fund-raising and management practices have marred operations at many nonprofit groups.

  • Fifty-five percent of nonprofit employees observed one or more acts of misconduct in the previous year, according to the Ethics Resource Center, in Washington. That is the highest share of employees who say they have witnessed bad behavior since the center began measuring perceptions of nonprofit conduct in 2000.

  • More than half of

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