Congress Urged to Force Charities to Prove Their Social Value; Plus More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
November 6, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- With a recent survey showing that 23 presidents at private colleges earn more than $1-million, Congress should do more to regulate nonprofit salaries and operations, including establishing a national standard for “how much benefit an organization must provide to a community to earn tax-exempt status,” argues an editorial in the Des Moines Register.
- Tim Ogden, editor in chief of Philanthropy Action, writes about the case of Zynga, a company that makes online games, which recently trumpeted that it had raised $500,000 for nonprofit groups in Haiti. Much of the company’s revenue turned out to be raised through a scam, however, which highlighted for Mr. Ogden the lack of public information about how much of a consumer’s gift goes to a cause.
- Causes, the application that promotes giving on social-networking sites, recently announced that it was ending its efforts on MySpace due to a “lack of activity.” Amy Sample Ward, who works with NetSquared and other nonprofit groups, writes on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog about the implications of the decision for nonprofit groups.
- Sean Stannard-Stockton, an adviser to donors and a Chronicle columnist, features several posts on his blog from grant makers Charles R. Bronfman and Jeffrey R. Solomon, who have published a new book on giving. Read The Chronicle’s article about the men, who are chairman and chief executive, respectively, of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies.
