Senate Oversight

Senate Finance Committee Charitable Sector Proposed Reforms and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

	The Sarbanes-Oxley Act also affects nonprofits. It is important to recognize and appreciate the impact these newly-established standards for accountability will have on nonprofits.
	Charity oversight and reform - minutes of the Senate Finance Committee hearing of June 22, 2004.
	Staff report - 19 pages of proposed changes that may overhaul the 501(c)3 sector.
	Independent Sector's 11 page review of implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for the nonprofit sector.
	Board Source's implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for nonprofits (same document as above but different website in case Independent Sector's is offline).
	Panel on the Nonprofit Sector is a group of notables who are advising the Senate Finance Committee. Recommendations made in April 2005 to Congress are now being debated.
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