Charities and philanthropies will speak out on ways to have more oversight and governance within the nonprofit sector at a Field Meeting at the Westin - Southfield (1500 Town Center) on April 27 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., in Southfield, MI.

At an American University College of Law conference on Monday, a Senate Finance Committee staffer indicated that the committee plans to hold another hearing this spring on abuses in the charitable sector. According to the staffer, the hearing will focus on land donations, including the committee’s review of the operations of The Nature Conservancy. The staffer did not indicate a date or time for the hearing.

Preliminary results from a survey distributed to hundreds of private, nonprofit, charitable organizations by the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Listening Post Project during March 2005 revealed that substantial proportions of the country's nonprofit organizations are already utilizing most of the financial disclosure practices under review by the Senate Finance Committee to improve nonprofit governance and accountability. href=http://www.ncna.org/_uploads/documents/live//Communiqe4_Governance_and_ Accountability.pdf ntability.pdf> > Check it out!