Thoughts About Starting an International Charity; Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
March 22, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- John Casey, associate professor at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs, talks on the Future Leaders in Philanthropy blog about what to know before starting an international charity. His advice, in short: Don’t do it.
- Debbie Schlussel, a lawyer and conservative blogger, says a charity started by Sean Hannity, the Fox News talk-show host, misuses its money and gives little to its intended mission of supporting the education of children of U.S. troops. The charity, Freedom Alliance, denies the accusations on its Web site.
- Holden Karnofsky, a co-founder of the nonprofit-evaluation group GiveWell, discusses some of the downsides of “cost-effectiveness estimates” of nonprofit programs, meaning efforts to measure “how much good is accomplished per dollar donated.”
- “There is a troubling trend among social enterprises to romanticize the poor as entrepreneurs,” writes David Henderson, chief executive of Idealistics, which provides technology to nonprofit groups, on Change.org. He says that kind of talk masks the challenges poor people face and hinders the creation of solutions for helping them.
