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Are Business Leaders Doing Enough to Push Social Change? Plus More: Friday’s Roundup

May 7, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute

  • Are business leaders doing enough to shape corporate-responsibility and philanthropic efforts that produce real change? Ellen Remmer of the Philanthropic Initiative ponders that question on Duke University’s Philanthropy Central blog.
  • Jeff Raderstrong, a young nonprofit worker, writes on his Change Charity blog about the dilemmas facing small-dollar donors who want to support a charity that doesn’t have a big enough budget to evaluate its results.
  • Holden Karnofsky, a co-founder of the nonprofit-evaluation group GiveWell, discusses Kiva’s decision to end its relationship with one of its microfinance partners.
  • If you are going to do one new thing in 2010 to move your nonprofit organization forward, it should be producing a video, writes David Neff on the blog, Getting Attention. Mr. Neff, co-founder of Lights. Camera. Help, which aims to help nonprofit groups communicate their messages through film, offers tips on how to start producing videos.
  • On her Philanthropic Family blog, Sharon Schneider of Foundation Source writes about Mother’s Day gifts that benefit charity.


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Maria directs the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual Philanthropy 50, a comprehensive report on America’s most generous donors. She writes about wealthy philanthropists, family and legacy foundations, next generation philanthropy, arts organizations, key trends and insights related to high-net-worth donors, and other topics.