A Cautionary Tale From Oil-Spill Cleanup Volunteers; Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
May 17, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- On the blog, Transformational Giving, Eric Foley, vice president of giving and training for Mission Increase Foundation, criticizes what he calls BP’s missed opportunity to recruit volunteers to assist with the oil spill cleanup off the Gulf Coast and what nonprofit groups could learn from the company’s approach.
- If nonprofit groups are really serious about acquiring younger donors, they should hire some of them and put them in leadership roles, writes Bill Jacobs, vice president of research and analytics at Grizzard. Mr. Jacobs says that nonprofit organizations need to stop hiring young people to do administrative work, which leads them to quickly become bored and want to move on.
- Mark Rosenman, director of Caring to Change, is interviewed on the Foundation Center’s blog about a new report by his group on how foundations can be more effective.
- On the blog, Connection Cafe, Jordan Viator, interactive communications manager at Convio, offers her analysis on several nonprofit groups that have carried out effective online fund-raising campaigns.
