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- Greenpeace US Annual Report: Lots of Campaign Info, Nothing on Governance
- Greenpeace Voting Incestuous
- Greenpeace Financial Reporting Error
- Greenpeace Canada: Some Governance Info Please?
- More Very Cozy Greenpeace Governance
- The Pot and the Kettle: Greenpeace Asks for Transparency?
- How Much More Incestuous Can Greenpeace Get?
Why is it that Greenpeace US doesn’t supply governance information in its annual report?
My review of Greenpeace US’s 2009-2010 Annual Report shows that they devoted 14 of 30 pages to highlight their recent campaigns and to alert readers as to future campaigns. But within those 30 pages there appears no information on how the US division of this NGO governs itself.
Greenpeace is an organization that often “requests” information from various companies about how those companies govern themselves. For example, on this Greenpeace US blog entry the writer (who does not identify him/herself) refers to Greenpeace’s extended campaign for Cairn Energy to publish an oil spill response plan.
Given that this NGO is concerned with how companies govern themselves, it seems only fair that they supply the public with similar information. This consideration is especially important when one realizes that Greenpeace US, a tax-exempt organization, effectively operates, at least partially, on tax payer dollars. (If you need information on how tax-exempt organizations are actually tax payer supported organizations, please see my post “Know More About NGOs. After All, You Pay For Them.”)
So why is it that Greenpeace US doesn’t supply governance information in their annual report?
