July 29, 2009 | Read Time: 2 minutes
Here are some of latest blog items and opinion pieces worth noting for the nonprofit world:
- The Nonprofit Quarterly‘s Rick Cohen examines the potential impact on nonprofit organizations of cuts approved by the House Appropriations Committee. (The Chronicle reports, meanwhile, that a Senate appropriations subcommittee voted yesterday to restore President Obama’s national-service budget).
- Sticking with the government theme, White Courtesy Telephone challenges California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to stop being a “girly man” and raise taxes to protect the programs of charities in that state.
- On the GiveWell Blog, Holden Karnofsky writes about how one small charity, VillageReach, is proving that you don’t need to be big to effectively achieve your mission.
- Bill Huddleston offers advice to the nonprofit leaders who are meeting with Independent Sector in Colorado Springs this week to plot the future of philanthropy on CFC Treasures.
- On the Change.org blog about humanitarian relief, Michael Bear highlights an article that challenges the notion that supporting nonprofit groups is a more effective approach than providing direct aid to foreign governments. In that article, The Myth of NGO Superiority, author Peter Nunnenkamp writes that nonprofit groups rarely try to outperform government-run development agencies, nor do they focus on the neediest people who might not be reached by state aid.
- David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, a Washington think tank, asks whether microfinance could be subject to “bubbles” somewhat similar to the ones that decimated the financial-services industry.
- Tony J. Wang, a foundation consultant, writes on his blog about the need to build a “community” in philanthropy to make grant makers more effective.
- Melinda Gates spoke about the need to help Latinos gain access to higher education during the annual meeting of the National Council of La Raza, an advocacy group. The speech by the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation can be watched on YouTube.
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