With Hurricane Katrina demonstrating anew the need for an effective and reliable network of private, nonprofit organizations to help meet urgent national problems, and recent calls for increased regulation of nonprofit organizations from the Senate Finance Committee and others, a new report from the Johns Hopkins University's Nonprofit Listening Post Project offers the first up-to-date information on the actual governance and accountability practices of U.S. nonprofit organizations. More than 600 nonprofit organizations in the United States were surveyed for the report, which reveals that the overwhelming majority of the organizations responding have boards of directors that are already significantly involved in the key oversight functions that nonprofit boards are expected to perform. For the report and for more information on the Listening Post