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Fraud can scuttle nonprofits but the bigger and older ones fare better

  • Written by Sarah Webber, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, University of Dayton
Fraud has organizational consequences.Shutterstock.com/smspsy

After a director of the Fairmont-Marion County Food Pantry embezzled more than US$50,000, it had to close for two months in 2009 – leaving 1,200 West Virginians who depended on it in a temporary lurch.

The effects of this kind of malfeasance may appear straightforward. Charities...

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