YMCA of the USA Appoints First Woman Leader in Its 170-Year History

Plus, a network of 33,000 nonprofit volunteers has delivered 100,000 free lasagnas to Americans across the country. ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( [logo] Was this newsletter forwarded to you? [Please sign up to receive your own copy.]( You’ll support our journalism and ensure that you continue to receive our emails. [Read this newsletter on the web](. TRANSITIONS [YMCA of the USA Appoints First Woman Leader in Its 170-Year History]( By M.J. Prest [image] Also, the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund has named its first president, and the International Center for Research on Women has appointed Peggy Clark as its next CEO. ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( FEEDING THE HUNGRY [A Network of 33,000 Volunteers Has Delivered 100,000 Free Lasagnas]( By Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press [image] Lasagna Love got its start in April 2020 when a businesswoman was looking for ways to help her community after the pandemic brought her family’s business to a standstill. More people quickly signed on to help. Paid for and Created by Independent Sector [A Nonprofit That Supports a Diverse Workforce Finds Resilience]( Learn how the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement prioritized their members and mission first as they transitioned to remote work, providing a positive impact and focusing on what they could control to thrive during unprecedented moments. Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Leaders and staff at the Human Rights Campaign are waiting anxiously for the results of an inquiry into whether the organization’s former president knowingly abetted departed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s attempts to deflect sexual-harassment allegations. Alphonso David, who was hired to lead the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group in 2019 after working as counsel for Cuomo, has said he had no knowledge of incidents cited in the explosive New York attorney general’s report that prompted Cuomo’s resignation. He has also said that he was obliged to hand over documents about an accuser that a Cuomo aide requested from him after he left Cuomo’s office. Some HRC employees are skeptical that David was ignorant of issues that had been widely covered in the press. But they also acknowledge that David, who is Black, has helped the organization widen its scope to better represent gay people of color and trans people, and “though they seek accountability, they want to make sure Mr. David is not scapegoated for a powerful white man’s transgressions.” The investigation is expected to take a month. ([New York Times]( Billions of dollars held by private entities, including charities and institutional endowments, are being overseen by a self-policing accounting industry that rarely blows the whistle on incompetence or bad behavior in its ranks. Accounting firms regularly audit one another, and their findings do not have to be disclosed publicly. Some experts say they pull their punches, lest critical assessments lose them customers. Of 659 firms that reported their results publicly — about 3 percent of the 24,000 doing peer reviews — a Wall Street Journal analysis found that “91 percent got the highest ‘pass’ grade and only 4 percent the worst ‘fail’ score on the three-grade scale.” Almost all of the 100 biggest firms got a “pass” score. Meanwhile, more than one-fourth of the audits reviewed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants last year “fell short of professional standards.” In the past several years, regulators and courts have said audits have failed to catch errors and evidence of fraud at a now-bankrupt university in California and some private investment funds. 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