July 27, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Chronicle today kicks off a new daily digest of some of the nonprofit world’s most thought-provoking, controversial, or simply entertaining blog items.
If you’d like to have your blog article mentioned in our daily roundup, send an e-mail message to giveandtake@philanthropy.com.
Here are some of latest blog items that are worth noting:
- On his Aid Watch blog, William Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University, is debating with World Vision UK about whether the group is unfairly using children to advocate for increased foreign aid. In a letter to Mr. Easterly, World Vision defends its tactics as appropriate.
- Has the reality television show “NYC Prep” tarnished the image of high-school community service, asks Carolyn Rubenstein on The Huffington Post. Ms. Rubenstein is the founder of a charity that assists children with cancer.
- The Asian American Giving blog is discussing the difficulties of using “Western ways” to vet grant proposals from small, grass-roots Asian charities.
- On his Tactical Philanthropy blog, Sean Stannard-Stockton introduces readers to the Repository Project, an effort he says will result in a “dynamic database” of international charities eligible to receive money from U.S. grant makers.
- On Frogloop, Allyson Kapin and Jared Seltzer debate whether nonprofit groups should post their annual reports online.
- The Chronicle’s Prospecting blog offers a look at how Mercy Corps tailored one of its fund-raising appeals to deal with the bleak economy.
