Criticism of the Reimagining Service Coalition; Plus More: Wednesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
June 2, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Susan Ellis, head of a volunteer-consulting firm, criticizes the Reimagining Service coalition for viewing corporate human-resource professionals as best-suited to help nonprofit groups recruit and manage volunteers. “Somehow they never discovered the profession of volunteer resources management, with its courses, books, journals, conferences, and experienced practitioners,” she writes on her group’s Web site.
- The watchdog organization Charity Navigator has published its list of the country’s most “charity conscious” cities on The Huffington Post. Pittsburgh tops this year’s list. According to Charity Navigator, Pittsburgh’s nonprofit groups have assets that are double the national average.
- Finding out donors’ very specific reasons for supporting a charity — “say, biodiversity versus clean air” — and using that information to report back to them in future appeals would be a far more powerful form of personalization than the donors’ locations or number of years as a member, Tom Belford, a veteran fund raiser, writes on his blog, The Agitator.
- When will Europe’s tight-fisted foundations start to spend their cash, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, the co-authors of Philanthrocapitalism, ask on their blog.
- As part of the Foundation Center’s Funding for Education podcast series, Christopher Shearer, director of grant making at the National Geographic Educational Foundation discusses the foundation’s work and offers advice for fund raisers. During an interview with Patricia Pasqual, director of the Foundation Center’s Washington office, he says that fund raisers need to spend more time thinking about what a foundation needs to get done and cares most about.
