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Integrity of Non-Profit & Charity Organization's Overhead

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 Integrity of Non-Profit & Charity Organization's Overhead By Ms Elena Metelina Various authors, including Mark Steven LeClair, have examined the causes and effects of organizational corruption specific to non-profits and charities. He distinguished outright illegal and “soft” corruption[ 1 ] - the latter referring to the continued and deliberate misuse of donated funds to benefit officers of the non-profit, with little joint to the non-profit’s supposed cause. Most people imagine non-profit organizations and charities as institutions that do good things for the world and help people in need. However, some unreliable non-transparent charities often damage the overall good image by the exposed embezzlement cases. Some initially have sincere intentions but eventually fail to deliver help because they waste enormous amounts of money on bloated administrative costs.  Consequently, it ruins people’s will to donate at all as they become skeptical and start thinking that their donatio

Women and Corruption

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Women and Corruption By Ms Maria Haiko     All over the world, corruption a ffects people’s every day lives in various ways: from unfair evaluation of college admissions to companies obtaining contracts with the help of bribes , corruption exists on many levels of society. People are aware of the effects of this unlawful practice on business and politics and so forth , but did you know that corruption actually affects women and men differently?   C orruption usually hits the poor the hardest , and women and girls make up 70% of the poor in the world . But the difference in impact on gender also has to do with the fact that unequal power relations between men and women often dictate how women react to forms of corruption – especially to gender-specific corruption: sexual extortion . 1 This inequality is most prominently visible in cultures that are heavily patriarchal , policy women’s bodies, and believe in the traditional roles of women as caretakers of the household and men a