Evaluations Are Useless if Groups Ignore the Results; Plus More: Tuesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
May 18, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- Louisa Hackett of the Community Resource Exchange, a nonprofit group in New York, discusses a recent New Yorker article on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Poverty Action Lab and says that evaluations are only useful if organizations are prepared to listen to the results.
- Emily Robbins of PhilanTopic writes about a recent discussion of the trends reshaping philanthropy with Steve Gunderson, the Council on Foundation’s president; consultant Lucy Bernholz; Diana Iviv of Independent Sector; and Stanford University professor Robert Reich. Watch a video of the event.
- Most donors will not make a donation without visiting a nonprofit group’s Web site first, writes Jocelyn Harmon, director of nonprofit services at Care2. On the blog Marketing for Nonprofits, Ms. Harmon offers tips on how nonprofit groups can strengthen their Web presence, noting that the majority of online donations in 2008, which was around $15-billion, came in through charities’ Web sites.
- Kathleen Enright of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations writes on the Center for Effective Philanthropy blog about the steps foundations can take to build better relationships with grantees.
- Social-media experts Beth Kanter and Allison Fine discuss how the nonprofit group Students for a Free Tibet uses social media to spread its messages. The organization was a winner in the first and second America’s Giving Challenge.
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