Nonprofit Leaders Promote Charity's Role in Recovery

By Brennen Jensen

In an effort to rally nonprofit groups and highlight the role charities can play as the nation seeks to recover from the recession, more than 100 nonprofit leaders have signed an online "action agenda" outlining steps that should be taken to improve charity performance, financing, and relations with government.

Created by the Nonprofit Listening Post Project, a project of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies, the three-page document — "Forward