2013 Highlights: Nonprofit Coverage From Elsewhere

‘Worst Charities’ Report Prompts Calls for Charities to Respond
By Suzanne Perry
June 26, 2013
Nonprofit experts worry that if fundraisers don’t speak up, donors will think all organizations condone questionable solicitation processes.

Better Oversight by Nonprofit Leaders Can Help Prevent Fraud
By Pablo Eisenberg
November 18, 2013
When charities become victims of embezzlement and other crimes, the blame too often goes to the media for exaggerating the problem or to unscrupulous investors or employees.

Responding to Peter Buffett: What Philanthropy Experts Say
August 5, 2013
An attack from the son of Warren Buffett prompts some to say he lacks undertanding of economic and poverty, while other say he is blaming donors for problems caused by others.

‘Boston Review’ Asks: What Are Foundations For?
By Heather Joslyn
April 7, 2013
The magazine gathered experts to debate whether philanthropies are too unaccountable.

Measuring the ‘Gates Effect’ on U.S. Higher Education
July 15, 2013
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s emergence at the center of the national debate on college reform is the focus of a package of articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

‘Strategic Philanthropy’ Shifts Too Much Power to Donors
By Pablo Eisenberg
August 20, 2013
Debate over the wisdom of the approach has thus far neglected the main problem: It reinforces the idea that nonprofits don’t know what matters most.