Many Foundations Are Unclear About What They Wish to Accomplish, Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
April 12, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- While there has been a “dramatic change” in foundation efforts to measure their accomplishments during the last decade, the nonprofit world is often too quick to think that such focus is a new phenomenon, writes Phil Buchanan, chief executive of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a research group. Writing on the Tactical Philanthropy blog, Mr. Buchanan says far too many foundations remain unclear about what they want to achieve.
- Corporate officials who focus on social responsibility are gathered in Boston this week for the annual Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship conference, and Ashley Jablow, an MBA student there, is keeping tabs on the meeting, which she describes as a “who’s who” from the world of corporate social responsibility. Follow her updates on her blog, The Changebase, or on Twitter@AshleyJablow. You can also get conference updates on Twitter with the hashtag #bcccc_conf.
- John Brothers, a management consultant, lists six signs that a charity might be in financial crisis —including file cabinets in the finance department that look like they “have been housing small animals—in a blog post at the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
- Charities should take a look at retailers’ customer-loyalty programs as they think about how to acknowledge the contributions of steadfast donors, Tom Belford, a fund raiser, writes on his blog, The Agitator.
