Charity Leader and His Critic Face Off, Plus More: Tuesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
October 13, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Tim Ogden, editor in chief of the online journal Philanthropy Action raises some questions about Kiva.org, the Web site that connects donors with entrepreneurs in poor countries. Meanwhile, Matt Flannery, the co-founder of Kiva, responds to charges that his group is not clear about how its services work. His response appears on the blog for the Center for Global Development, a Washington think tank.
- To facilitate a broader discussion about the issues that affect them, several young nonprofit blog writers have formed the Nonprofit Millennial Bloggers Alliance.
- The government should look to rebuild and strengthen a network of tax-exempt health insurers and nonprofit health centers as a way to solve the nation’s health-care problems, writes John E. Girouard in Forbes magazine.
- For too long, symphonies and other cultural institutions in San Diego and elsewhere have been too dependent on a few aging donors, but now must find ways to reach a broader swath of the population, writes Ian D. Campbell, general director of the San Diego Opera, in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Sean Stannard-Stockton, an adviser to donors and a columnist for The Chronicle, describes steps that nonprofit groups ought to be taking to emerge from the recession stronger than before. Groups should focus on improving their most effective program, develop a way to measure their results, and build a reserve fund, Mr. Stannard-Stockton writes on his Tactical Philanthropy blog.
