Questions About Nonprofit Salary Data and More: Tuesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
August 11, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Albert Ruesga, chief executive of the Greater New Orleans Foundations, tackles the question of whether there are too many charities, on the foundation’s new blog, The Second Line.
- Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, calls Kenneth H. Bacon, president of Refugees International, a “great spokesman” for the voiceless in a blog article honoring Mr. Bacon as he struggles with melanoma.
- Pete Smith, a nonprofit consultant in Virginia, raises questions about the recent salary survey by Charity Navigator, in Mahwah, N.J. Among other criticisms, Mr. Smith writes on his blog that the charity watchdog overemphasized large nonprofit salaries in its reporting.
- Kristi Heim profiles Mercy Karanja, a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who once raised cattle in her native Kenya and worked in that country on extension programs for farmers, in The Business of Giving, a blog run by The Seattle Times.
