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Can someone please provide some assistance me with this question. Its for an MBA course and needs to be 500 to 550 words. Find a newspaper or journal article (I do not have one chosen as I need help with that too) that describes an ethics lapse in a nonprofit organization. Write a 500 word analysis of the issue and how it could have been avoided. Please include examples if applicable. Please see attached document to help with assisting me. Thank you in advance for your help. I really appreciate it.

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The article that describes ethics lapse is:
"State files suit over nonprofit's alleged vet scam" (September 18, 1014) Rebecca S. Green The Journal Gazette, retrieved from: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140918/LOCAL03/309189923

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The ethics lapse is by the Sandbox Veterans of America. According to the Indiana attorney general, the nonprofit is not helping anyone. The ethics lapse is that Sandbox Veterans of America solicited donations under the name of Catholic Veterans of Indiana Limited and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of American Inc. The lapse was that the nonprofit had no connections to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America which is a legitimate charity and has offices in Washington, D.C, and New York. Olivia Locke of the Sandbox Veterans of America listed the president of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of American Inc and other officer's names and ...

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