A New Map Highlights Cross-Border Grants, Plus More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
June 4, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- The new Map of Cross-Border Giving on the Foundation Center’s Web site offers information about more than 35,000 grants totaling more than $10-billion awarded by U.S. foundations to organizations overseas.
- How can small nonprofit groups approach the task of measuring whether their programs make a difference? Curtis Chang, chief executive of Consulting Within Reach, discusses that question on the Social Edge blog.
- Holden Karnofsky, a co-founder of the nonprofit-evaluation group GiveWell, asks: “Are great charities made or born”?
- This American Life, a weekly radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International, recently looked at how aid money is being spent in Haiti after January’s massive earthquake. One story follows a Haitian farmer navigating a maze of relief organizations and government agencies to try to get plastic crates to store and transport her mangoes.
- Shawn Ahmed, an antipoverty activist, argues on Cult of Mac that global philanthropy faces a setback now that Apple has surpassed Microsoft as the world’s biggest technology company. Mr. Ahmed notes that while Microsoft has a significant track record of providing charitable aid, Apple has not yet done so.
- On A. Fine Blog, the social-media experts Allison Fine and Beth Kanter offer insights about what they learned from the second round of America’s Giving Challenge, a competition sponsored by the Case Foundation. (Read more about such competitions in an article from The Chronicle’s latest issue.)
