Charity Official Mulls Political Climate’s Effect on Philanthropy; Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
April 8, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Following a visit to Capitol Hill, Jeff Clarke, vice president of the Rasmuson Foundation, ponders the current political environment and how it may affect grant makers. His views appear on the blog of Philanthropy Northwest, a coalition of grant makers located in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
- The selection of Paul Carttar as director of the Social Innovation Fund is drawing discussion among bloggers. (See The Chronicle‘s article on Mr. Carttar, a co-founder of the Bridgespan Group). Sean Stannard-Stockton, an adviser to donors and a Chronicle contributor, and Nathaniel Whittemore, who writes a blog on social entrepreneurship at Change.org, discuss Mr. Carttar’s selection and the future of the fund.
- How can young workers negotiate better nonprofit salaries? On her blog, Allison Jones, a fund raiser in New York, summarizes a Twitter conversation on this topic.
- Halle Tecco, a social entrepreneur and nonprofit consultant, discusses a growing trend known as ‘unconsumption.’ Ms. Tecco writes on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s blog that unconsumption is a savvy movement to reduce, reuse, and recycle goods and that the current economy has encouraged consumers to pay more for sustainable products.
