Stealing In The Helpless Nonprofit Charity - Why Does It Happen?
It is Christmas time, and people have been giving generously - sometimes to large well-established charities, sometimes to small soup kitchens and food pantries to help the homeless out with a meal. People often worry about how in a large charitable organization, the little contributions they make to just disappear through mismanagement. In Scotland in Cornwall though, people giving to a small charity a few years ago were surprised to read in the news how a clerk at that organization chipped away at the nonprofit charity’s receipts - it came to a quarter of $1 million over several years. And here in the US, a modest soup kitchen and Virginia, that tried to help the local homeless with a hot meal in winters, found one day that about $50,000 was just missing from its bank.